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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jim Hague" data-source="post: 3479113" data-attributes="member: 17550">Except that, in many cases, the Paizo content was as good or better than the WotC content....thus growing Paizo and not WotC.  Enough so that Paizo is out on its own soon with almost no stumbling blocks, thanks to high-quality content and business sense.  Thus WotC's content isn't grown or expanded, and they choose not to renew the license.Sure, and that's some interesting anecdotal evidence...but it holds no water.  I can easily say that here in Austin, which has a huge, huge gaming community with D&D predominant, Neither Dungeon nor Dragon brought new players in - it was an existing social network and a chain of really excellent stores.  Both magazines, as good as they are, sat on shelves and in racks, gathering dust, by and large.You're asking hypotetical 'what ifs', with what seems to be a touch of hysteria thrown into the mix, which isn't helpful.  Your singular experience, like mine, does not equal the market; the mean is what we need to look at.  WotC may or may not give up a marketing avenue by pulling the magazines in and switching to DI.  I don't disagree that the decision isn't a bad one; I think it is.  But I also think that the importance of both magazines, as beloved as they are by us hardcore gamers, is being vastly overestimated.  Me, if I get back to playing D&D, I'll be investing in Pathfinder, thanks to the track record that Paizo (not WotC) has established.</blockquote>

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