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E-Day

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  1. The cutoff for scans currently varies depending on whether the magazine is still in production, and when the magazine ended. I don't remember what the dates are. But it never hurts to have copies of post-2000 issues in case the cutoff date moves.

  2. But the number of ads in the current magazines are nowhere near enough to sustain them (save for maybe Game Informer). A healthy magazine will have almost 50% ads, something not even Game Informer can do. Even if a magazine has a 3 million subscription base, companies know that tens of millions will see their ads if they are online instead. As it stands, I am not sure that the readership and the number of ads are enough to sustain a print magazine alone, where it is printed in a handful of places and has distributed over more than 24 million square kilometers, without supplemented income from web ads and digital subscriptions which eliminate the printing and distribution costs.

    I don't like it, but I can see the reasoning behind it.

  3. I read magazines precisely because I do not want to be staring at a screen all the time. Magazines get me away from screens. As magazines go digital only, I will stop reading them. It seems like everything we do these days needs to involve staring at a bright, colourful screen. I stare at screens enough as it is without owning a tablet yet, and I don't even read digital magazines.

    While it is inevitable, I will not be participating.

    The reason the UK magazine market is strong is because they are a small country. Their circulation numbers are tiny compared to what it takes to have a successful magazine in North America, but they are also about the size of California. It's a lot cheaper to ship magazines in an area that size than it is to cover all of the US and Canada. They might be able to get around this by contracting out with printers in various regions to print and distribute their magazines within a smaller area, but the number of agreements you would need to keep the areas a reasonable size would probably get expensive.

  4. One game that I'm looking into buying for the Sega Master System is Golden Axe Warrior. It's rare and many people never heard of it. But it was Sega's answer to The Legend of Zelda. I heard great things about it.

    At one point I had every Master System game released in the US and Canada (we got games the US didn't and vice versa) except for James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing, and Golden Axe Warrior was one of them. I am not sure if I still have it, as I sold a lot of my retro games three years ago because I knew I would never play them all, and because they were taking up too much space in our small house. I wonder if I still have it...

  5. GamePro gave lots of bad reviews. I never noticed anything sugar coated. I always like GamePro, because even though it skewed younger, I liked the fact that it didn't take everything so seriously and was fun to read. I always felt that magazines about video games should be as fun as the games itself.

    While I never read VG&CE back in the day, I've read several of the scans, and it was a very good magazine.

  6. Ok, so when are the magazines going to be available for download? I dont understand what is taking so long, Its been months since this site announced it was going to host the magazine files on a new server.

    how about we go ahead and restore all the download links and make this site useful again?

    You are obviously unaware of the amount of time it takes to restore 1,100 magazines; not just linking to them, but uploading them somewhere. Any issues with slowness will have to be taken up with Phillyman. But remember that this site is a hobby. Real life comes first, and right now real life is first on his agenda.

    @ E-Day - If you want to host your files over at OGM let me know. At least people will be able to get them that way and I'll happily credit you for their creation etc.

    Kiwi

    I'm waiting for TheRedEye to provide me with the replacement pages I need for the scans I am doing.

  7. I've seen this before. It usually means the magazine is covering their butt for a possible delay.

    They would rather have the retailer keep the issue on the shelf longer than to toss them out before a new issue has arrived.

    At Babbage's (back when there was a plethora of gaming mags) we would always "throw out" (into my car ;) the old mags when the new issues showed up.

    So I'd thinking EGM's future is looking even more dim.

    I thought unsold issues were sent back to the magazine.

  8. Yeah, @Gamer Magazine is good. Frankly, I like it better than the modern EGM. It's got some fun writing in there like the old days. EGM has gotten too professional and serious for my taste. Video games are about having fun by playing and writing about it. The only reason why I still subscribe to EGM is to collect all the issues.

    I agree. EGM has lost it's fun and whimsical side. I only subscribe because I want to support it as a gaming magazine. I'd subscribe to @Gamer if we got it in Canada. I quite enjoyed the issue I picked up last summer in Watertown, NY. Sadly I forgot to get another issue when I was in Rochester, NY for Black Friday.

  9. There are finally no Friends Codes with the Wii U. However, the problem is that if you send a request to someone to add you to their friends list, they do not get a notification.

    So for those of you who have a Wii U, why not add yours here, and then people can let you know when they've sent you a request?

    Mine is Ferkner.

  10. I think CBR files were picked as THE format here because they are easy to create, and easy to take apart if someone wants to extract one page. I'm not totally sure because that was decided long before I arrived.

  11. You're a bit late to the party ;). The first issue was available for purchase last month. There are no ads, and apparently the money raised from the first issue went to charity.

    Subscriptions are available, and right from the link you provided :P

    https://checkout.subscriptiongenius.com/nintendoforcemagazine.com/

    $30 in the US for the print issue, $35 to Canada, and $40 to most of the rest of the world. I signed up the first day they were available.

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