Is White Dwarf a magazine??

[Defenestratus]

I don't pay for advertising, anymore than I pay for bottled water. I liken it to the idea of watching television and the screen goes blank asking me to pay for the new Toyota commerical along with the proviso that it is totally awesome! I've read all the White Dwarf (it doesn't take long) put out in the last year. I know people who buy them (and some who used to buy them). I was very interested in the revamp and supposed improvements. I didn't mark a noticeable difference. You must remember that I cut my teeth on such hobby magazines back when Dragon Magazine was in its first 100+ issues and there was ACTUAL content. The magazine eventually went the route that White Dwarf is all about and I stopped buying it too.

You have to remember, when all you've been fed is gruel, cardboard is downright gourmet.

[Lunar Camel]

WD used to be a great magazine. Around 2005 is when it changed. Before, the articles focused on other people's armies, tournaments, how to paint, and how to make your own scenery. They even had articles about their specialist lines.

Now that you buy everything instead of making it yourself (scenery, boards, etc) which is still too expensive, the mag has become a huge catalogue.

This shows that GW has gone from an innovative company to a cookie-cutter factory. I admit, the models are great, highly detailed, well made, and flexible. But the ideology behind it is now just a box. No one wants to think outside of it.

The days of the fan articles are long gone.

[Dorsai]

I would say compare WD to any other hobby magazine. Does it talk about other manufactures? Does it tell you how to convert or improve your models? Do it give you advice on how to play the game? Or is it just used to talk about the upcoming release of their own products without giving away any information about them? Does it have a method of feed back from the customers? Does ever even talk about the company policies at all?

[Psychosplodge]

(it informed me that I am a complex and mysterious being with unknowable motivations that women need to try really hard to impress, which completely countermanded my assumption that I was easily swayed by food and nudity.)

Really? I found that their idea of kinky barely registers, I mean feathers and furry handcuffs? B!tch please.

[White Tiger88]

Really? I found that their idea of kinky barely registers, I mean feathers and furry handcuffs? B!tch please.

You really need to play a slaanesh army........ (I am also still trying to figure out if your a guy or not........)

*Cough* Anyhow White Dwarf is now useless as anything even to burn! (The smell is terrible....)

[Psychosplodge]

You really need to play a slaanesh army........ (I am also still trying to figure out if your a guy or not........)

Maybe when they re-do SOB, file the flys-de-le off and make a counts as slaaneshi marines army? hmm...
Also it's no secret, it's definitely on here somewhere.

[Power Klawz]

Really? I found that their idea of kinky barely registers, I mean feathers and furry handcuffs? B!tch please.

"If you really want to get him going, slap him around and make deleterious comments about his lineage."

[Psychosplodge]

If it doesn't draw blood you're doing it wrong...

[phoenix01]

its a collection of written articles printed periodically, therefore, a magazine.

It's not a high capacity magazine: I can't put thirty rounds into it.

[bfmusashi]

It's not a high capacity magazine: I can't put thirty rounds into it.

I only made it five with mine before the bindings broke and the ref stepped in.