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WotC entzieht Paizo Lizenzen für Dungeon und Dragon Magazine

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Visionär:
Klingt einfach nur gut!

Hypehype.

@Selganor: Jo, stimmt. AD&D1 ist auch klasse, fast so gut wie D&D3.5. Aber irgendwie hatte ich das Gefühl, dass sehr viele AD&D1-Gruppen dann zur dritten Ed. gewechselt sind. Kann mich auch täuschen.

Samael:

--- Zitat von: Visionär am 24.04.2007 | 01:27 ---Klingt einfach nur gut!

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Naja, wer braucht schon 2 Adventure Paths pro Jahr? Und die Einzelszenarien waren mehr als praktisch, wenn man sich schnell einen Spielabend aus der Hüfte schneiden musste - die werd ich sehr vermissen.

Wawoozle:
Die Einzelszenarien wird es auch weiterhin geben, allerdings kommen die dann als Module innerhalb der GameMastery Marke von Paizo.

Preislich liegen die natürlich auch wieder etwas höher als Dungeon oder Dragon aber einfach deswegen weil es auch als Softcover aufgemacht ist und eben ohne Werbung.

Samael:
Die kosten ja 12,99$!!!!

Samael:
Was Monte dazu sagt.


--- Zitat ---I'd be willing to bet that there is indeed something keeping them from publishing a new magazine. The absolute smartest thing they could do is to say Dragon and Dungeon are ending, but Wyvern and Labyrinth are starting up the very next month, and even picking up with the same issue numbers. Magazine distributors have monthly "slots" to fill. That's why it's so hard to start a new magazine. It almost has to supplant another one to get a new slot, or you have to go through the major hassle of convincing them to create a new slot. Paizo could just tell its distributors "hey, we're stopping these mags, but here's two others to fill those slots." They could tell their subscribers that Wyvern and Labyrinth subscriptions will just take up where Dragon and Dungeon left off. Sales would still likely decline, but they wouldn't be paying WotC any money, so maybe it would work out OK.

The folks at Paizo aren't dumb. They'd be doing that if they could. So there's really only one explanation. WotC's forcing them to some kind of agreement where they can't put out magazines (maybe for some limited period of time--a sort of non-compete clause lasting a year or two).

Read Paizo's press release for their new subscription product Pathfinder. They're very careful about calling this magazine a "product." It's the only way to get around what must be some kind of restriction.

This also provides us the answer for why WotC would do this. If the magazines were doing poorly, WotC wouldn't care if Paizo put out others. No, it's just the opposite. They're doing well, and likely WotC products--probably specifically adventures--aren't doing as well as WotC wants. There's been some loud voices at WotC crying that Dragon and Dungeon (particularly Dungeon) are too good a value. They're too good for the customer, and smart customers buy them rather than regular products. This was true when WotC put out the magazines, and it's been true under the Paizo banner as well. I'm guessing declining sales gave these voices the evidence they needed to axe the magazines.

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Hervorhebung von mir. Ich teile diese Einschätzung.

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