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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 5436009" data-attributes="member: 64209">Thoughtful response overall, I commend ya. I see here why it doesn't bug you. You're treating the emagazines more like regular magazines. To each his own, but I think that goes a bit against their whole "digital is better" paradigm of being able to stream content. I mean, heck, they're not compiling anymore, so I believe that their intent is not to make these "magazines" per se that you sit down and read all at once (which, I confess, is what I prefer as well), but more of an experience of article based content.   Ya know, I actually held off on answering your post for a while because I'm not entirely sure of the answer to this myself. I'll list some elements: 1. Originally I really loved Dungon and Dragon. It saddened me that they moved them to digital, slightly, but what made me very upset was how spotty their quality and quantity were originally. I fought hard on their forums to pressure them to improve this. 2.  At that time I fully intended to make the switch to 4e. I wanted them to be putting out quality resources for my game. 3. In general, I began to adopt a bit of a watchdog stance toward the company as I noticed more an more of a "say one thing but do another" including the release of 4e without any of the digital products (and again pulled teeth from WotC to find out when the hell they were coming out). 4. I still care about the game, I have friends who play 4e (and when I fly out to see them, we play that game and use this content).  5. I look to the future of D&D, and worry about its stewardship. (I think this may be one of the biggest components, by the way.) I'm not just talking about 5e and beyond as editions (or the whole, maybe I'll prefer the next edition and can help steer it in that direction paradigm). I'm talking about the general health of D&D as well as keeping WotC accountable. In essence, I post because I don't want 4e fans (or any D&D fans) to be suckered or to roll over and take it when WotC is less than honest with them.  6. So, riffing off of point "5", it's the whole conglomerate of WotC snafus, backpedaling, lack of communication, inaccurate communication, etc (not doing a good job with Dungeon and Dragon magazines, pulling all PDFs, not having digital products at the release of 4e, not having several digital products STILL) that concerns me, not just the magazines.  But, you may ask, "Ok, it's not just the magazines, why do you care about WotC at all? You don't really play 4e?"  I guess my simplest answer to that is that I play D&D, they are its sheperds, and they're losing their flock.</blockquote>

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