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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3467472" data-attributes="member: 8158">The anger directed towards WotC at the moment is quite clearly not "just because WotC is trying something different". Try something different all you like, but deciding to "coax" people into adopting change by depriving them of options is never going to be a tactic that garners much respect. This isn't the gradual death of vinyl records we're talking about. We're not talking abut closing down some outmoded, unpopular, dying venue here. According to Paizo staff, subscriptions were rising with every year. This was a relatively healthy limb WotC lopped off so that you'd buy their nifty new cyber-prosthetic. WotC realized that some fans might choose to buy a magazine rather than subscribe to the digital initiative. Instead of rising to the challenge of winning those fans over, instead of patiently waiting for the obsolesence of the printed medium to set in, Wizards took a shortcut. They pulled the plug on the magazine in order to take the choice out of the equation. Obviously, businesses exist to make money. Unfortunately, folks who preached that little fact often misinterpret it as a vindication of anything a business does in search of a profit. Sorry, but consumers are quite correct to object vocally to being taken for granted or exploited; pleading economic darwinism doesn't make it all better. Well, I'm glad your own attitude is so constructive a free of vituperation. Gotta love hypocrites.</blockquote>

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