Comments on: Magazines Not Dead… Oh Wait

By: cc_star

cc_star — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:08:20 +0000

Whole-heartedly agree with you cags, but the online medium requires updates throughout the day, every day, this often means articles which are written are later fine tuned into the actual story when the full details are released days or sometimes weeks later, or in some cases evaporates in to nothing.

If a website was subscription based, with full-time paid journalists and updated one a month would there be parity between online & print?

I like both, so I hope print is around for many years to come.

By: Raen

Raen — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:59:36 +0000

I agree with your general point, print is (normally) the superior medium for accuracy. It’s more that they have the time to fact check and filter whereas at the pace which onlines moves this is almost impossible

By: cags

cags — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:27:36 +0000

At the risk of stirring up a hornets nest by mentioning a PC on a console site… I’m been subscribed to PC Gamer for years now and I don’t plan on stopping. Sure you can get most of the information online free, and ahead of time, but the editors do a good job of filtering out (the majority) of bs and inaccuracies that you normally get online.

By: bunimomike

bunimomike — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:40:49 +0000

Bought four issues of OPM this year as the cover disc saved me hammering my sub-1MBit connection for PSN downloads. However, my connection is now a smidge faster and I soon recognised the fact that OPM had so much repetition when it came to what was on the disc. I appreciate it might be tricky to fill it with 100% new content each month but close to half was old-hat. Not on!

By: DarthSharkey

DarthSharkey — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:49:09 +0000

With internet sites easily available I only buy a magazine if i’m on a long journey. I used to always buy OPM since it’s first PS3 release.
I stopped buying it because I was flicking through it then leaving it because there was nothing new.

By: Charmed_Fanatic

Charmed_Fanatic — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:55:37 +0000

Will someone pleeeease think of the chiiildren??!?!

What is it going to be like in the future? No magazines, no free gifts to make you buy, no paper….
I used to look forward to each month when my OPM2 would drop into my house, spend most the day reading it and playing the demo’s.
Now i use the internet for game reviews and download the demo’s, however i think this is a bad thing for our kids as they will probably never experience this.
Hopefully there will be atleast one magazine left for each console [OPM, ONM and OXM]

By: Demibeard

Demibeard — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:46:12 +0000

I just cancelled my subscription to OPM, I’d been a subscriber since OP2M, but I’d been buying it since my PlayStation (1) days (I have a LOT of demo discs).

Reason being, I never read it, not really, it would get a flick though when it got delivered, but that’s it. The demo disc, got flicked over, in the hope of an exclusive demo or some other PS3 centric wallpapers/themes, but nope, nothing extra. The odd article I did read was quite interesting, but nothing I can’t get here, and this has the added bonus of a very pleasant community too.

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By: Paranoimia

Paranoimia — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:50:22 +0000

I subscribe to OPM, and I actually take their review score above all others, for the simple reason that – over the years since I got the original mag for my PS1 – I’ve always found that their opinions on games match mine most of the time.

I don’t buy a game because they say it’s good (they gave Arkham Asylum a 9, but I’m just not interested in games based on comic book superheroes), but if I’m interested in a game and they give it a good review, I’m far more likely to buy it.

By: LiquidLarsson

LiquidLarsson — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:06:53 +0000

I doubt Nuts is affected

By: fogcity94

fogcity94 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:48:02 +0000

Demo disks are great for me because I only have 3GB of download per month.

So I can still get all the demos that a couldn’t download.

By: fogcity94

fogcity94 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:44:15 +0000

32% of statistics are just made up on the spot.
Including this one /\

seriously though, I like to get the OPS still, because I always learn about a game which I hadn’t known about before, and probaly wouldn’t have known about until near release.

Or a feature on an awesome game that I didn’t previously care about that makes me want that game.

By: colmshan1990

colmshan1990 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:19:58 +0000

I wonder what the figures for the Official Playstation Magazine are? I always found it an interesting read but very expensive because of the demo disc. I know a lot of people only bought it for the disc, but now with demos on the PSN for free, I wonder how many ‘readers’ they’ve lost?

By: td_rules

td_rules — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:17:26 +0000

Id like to see foigures for OPM UK, I think theyre doing great. The only way print will sell is with exclusives which OPM has a shit tonne of its crazy.

You will know that whenever OPM drops into subscribers hands its on N4G within minutes.

and Playstation World was shite…