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I agree that I will need to only get one mag instead of the two that I (would usually) get. But, I am not sure that all people will jump on with this. I think that it would make more sense to have two magazines - one for Gothic, Inquisitor, Necromunda and Epic, and one for Warmaster, Mordheim and Blood Bowl.
Let me put it this way. WD is now going up to ?4 in the UK. For WD for a year that works out at ?48 (although there are annual subscription discounts, I dont see that Specialist Games can offer these). My year of Gothic costs me a quarter of that. So, even though I save by having two mages in one, I pay twice the price (assuming that the mag is equivalent in price and size to WD).
We do need more people to be exposed to Epic and to play it, and I am glad that this idea is being thought about and considered, but I dont feel that it is necessarily the positive step for Epic that it could be for something like Blood Bowl.
In the end, I fear that a move such as this will actually reduce the number of players and Epic will be seen as the poor cousin of the other Specialist Games range. If you edit the 'general' mag and you know that Epic has a lot less players and readers, and you have a lot less articles for Epic, would you keep the various sections equal in content and page numbers? If you did, GW would hand you your P45.
I simply dont understand the logic of having the Journal, splintering off the mags from that, ending the original and then recombining the various mags into a single publication.
Still, this rumour came up about a year ago, and nothing came of it then. I dont want sound negative, but I just dont think that this is a good idea for Epic (or even for Gothic really).
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