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Don't mean to start a flame war, but that said, did you just post once here to complain? Do you have the magazine? Dragon and Dungeon are both excellent magazines, worthy of 20 stars each. I see no problem with Erik pointing out that people have some...

i never did get dungeon, but had subscritions to dragon prior to 3rd edition.

and ended them when the style became something that i saw as more of an art project than presenting good information. when using a font or typesetting it should be made readable by all, not those with just 20/20 eyesight. or made to look fancy. and when 3rd became the only material as i had no need for it (3rd edition)

i just have seen so many times where instead of looking at bad reviews as an option to take readers responses and ideas to maybe change something simple to be a total bashing of the product.

it seems to say to try to devalue those opinions of those that gave bad reviews rather than get an actual picture of what readers think.

granted selling a product is good for business, but trying to hide bad reviews just to make thing look better is ridiculous; and similarily is the problem with eBay's feedback system.

and amazon is not the only place that has reviews of dragon magazine. so why only target it to bolster better reviews? nor is amazon the only place to purchase it.

so if amazon sells less issue to people who dont know of the magazine, those who do know of it and are into role playing games will not even bother with reading the reviews.

they should work to not only tell the potential customers what people who bought it think, but also the publisher, et all; to get an opinion from the buying public that visit the particular site.

it just seems like targeting amazon buyers rather than telling everoyne to visit ALL websites and give their opinions. which IMO would have been a better way to do it than just pick amazon.

this review is probably the least helpful:

Beware of fanboys, July 22, 2005
Reviewer: Rebel Subscriber "ACE" (DE, Dover USA)

This is just a warning to those using the reviews given on this product as a source of information on whether to buy it. Erik Mona, one of the head editors of the magazine, basically went on the company's message board and told people to artificially bump up the magazine's ratings on the site by giving it 5 stars. I suggest you read some of the older reviews for more accurate depictions of the magazine as they are likely not tainted by the cookie cutter things Erik told his loyal followers to write. I suggest buying a single issue of this periodical at your local gaming store and seeing if you like it before you buy a subscription based on advertising disguised as customer reviews. Thank you.

only thing worse is the fact that people were asked to go there and pad the votes.

if you are not a customer of amazon, you shouldnt be trying to falsify information begging people to go and give good reviews.

if there is a problem with the product you might want to instead listen to or just ignore the reviews against your product.

this kind of popularity contest garbage is how people end up with poor products, cause of "paid advertisers" and not honest opinions.

try running surveys in other magazines about your products for people to have an unbiased account of the results and see what people really think instead of trying to railroad people towards a product that some feel is inadequate by artifically stimulating better reviews.

it sounds like shill bidding on eBay where you use a fake account to bid agaisnt someone just to make someone pay more.

very sad principles.

The last thing WotC wants is to end up like TSR.

what having a loyal fan base that supports/sticks with them through the troubled times?

Still have the question:

How does cannon time flow in GH. Each of our years one GH year passes? Does time pass on a cannon level? What GH year did 3.0 come out in...3.5? Is there a secquence of events that gets published each GH year so that DMs can know what has cannonly transpired in GH as time in the campaign progresses...if it does progress?

ASEO out

cannonically the timelines should differ. as GH pre-3.x shouldn't exist within the realm of 3.x.

they are several different games and should have their own respective independent timelines. such as OD&D, AD&D, and 3.x D&D are completely different game systems.

isnt it true that games workshop has stopped allowing people from selling their products online via shopping carts and displaying images of their IP (products) on sites? but only able to sell via telephone and mail-order?

how is it this site is still allowed to have games workshop merchandise in a shopping cart available for order directly from online?

if they own full rights to the articles then its theirs to do with whatever they want. so if they want more people to have access to older articles in a the new format for the roll-playing game of D&D 3.x/d20 system let them. it will not deter from the older versions that are role-playing games.