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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 3:17PM Sleeping Lesson said

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So.... when can I subscribe?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 9:30PM GreyFox said

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Yeah! I want to get this on time!
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 3:25PM shimrra74 said

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WHEN CAN I SUBSCRIBE??? Oh shit I know someone who works at Time Warner. Time for me to start sucking up and hopefully get an advance copy :D
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:45PM MGarvey said

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I'm SO with you on that Shimrra! When.Can.I.Subscribe?! This has turned out to be a wonderful afternnon!
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 3:38PM (Unverified) said

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Gaming mags made sense in the 80's and 90's, but with the plethora of reliable gaming sites available for free, what's the point?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 3:40PM (Unverified) said

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I couldn't agree me. Clearly their hearts are in the right place, but releasing a print magazine in 2010 makes about as much sense as releasing a new Harry Potter film on VHS; where's the market?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 3:52PM False said

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Because you can't read gaming sites on the crapper.

Duh.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:10PM (Unverified) said

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I buy magazines each time I travel, and had a long standing tradition of buying EGM before plane trips. I'll keep buying it. Personaly I like the print media more. And it helps that I don't have to read dumbass comments when I open up a magazine.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:49PM Draken Stark said

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I have a laptop, bow before me as I type this post from the crapper!
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 6:00PM (Unverified) said

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Ummm...it's called an iPhone or any one of the phones with quick and easy web browsing.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 5:14PM (Unverified) said

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The market is people who like to read something a little different than the same regurgitated news (just with different snarky headlines and asides) thats on most gaming news sites.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 3:50PM (Unverified) said

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To me, i'm letting EGM die along when i graduated high school. Now the internet is what replaced it.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:15PM Granger said

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The internet is oh-so-much like EGM, except with a lot more porn than I remember.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:57PM False said

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And a lot more idiots. At least with EGM, the only idiot I have to put up with is Seanbaby.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 3:52PM DigitalFirefly said

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So do I get the first 9 issues for free since I only got 3 issues of my subscription when EGM closed before?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:07PM (Unverified) said

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Not enjoying your monthly Maxim?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:07PM (Unverified) said

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Didn't you like your Maxim subscription?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:08PM (Unverified) said

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God damnit Lurkero >: (
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 7:45PM (Unverified) said

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Think they'll honor my old subscription? I had a good 2 years left on that thing...
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:11PM Notme2 said

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Game informer has been doing this for a long time now. And ill always prefer a mag just so when im laying down or down feel like looking at a screen
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:13PM DigitalFirefly said

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Sorry, I don't get Maxim.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:14PM (Unverified) said

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Maxim was sent to EGM readers who didn't get their subscription finish. So uhhh, whats your excuse broseph? Did you even subscribe to EGM or are you just trying to be one of the cool kidz?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:16PM DigitalFirefly said

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I had a subscription for 3 years. I resubscribed right before they stopped the mag. I never got a subscription to Maxim. Did you have to do something special to get it?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:20PM (Unverified) said

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Have a subcription to EGM :V
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:14PM Breakdown said

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Am I the only one that thinks that EGM in print is a dinosaur that should probably stay dead?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:19PM (Unverified) said

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Sometimes dinosaurs are fun. At least they were when I was five. Is EGM directed at five year olds still?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:18PM Brother Unit No 4 said

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They're gonna have to work hard to get some interesting exclusives. From what I've seen in recent times, Game Informer seems to be the one in front with that. I mean most things you could conceive of to place in a mag is present online. Admittedly, I do enjoy reading magazines over websites any day of the week, but the web is usually ahead when it comes to rumors, news, whatever.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:20PM Spaceboyca said

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Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii LIKE it! Hecks yeah!
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:25PM JoshMilewski said

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Seanbaby, yes!
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:27PM (Unverified) said

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I remember the first EGM magazine that I bought. It had the Dracula statue head on the cover and it previewed the Genesis/SNES game/movie tie in.

I also thought that Sushi-X was the greatest reviewer ever!

What they really need to do though is figure out some way to stop people on the internet just completely copying and pasting entire article(s) in a their forum of choice (*cough GAF cough*)
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:51PM MGarvey said

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember that issue! Hell, I might still have it tucked away in a cabinet somewhere in my house! It was the issue with Bramstoker Dracula on the cover!
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Posted: Dec 22nd 2009 9:48AM (Unverified) said

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I remember my first time with EGM being the Sonic 2 cover. I bought it the day after I graduated the 6th grade...I subscribed to it that day, and had been a loyal reader/subscriber up until their 'transient' demise. And now...I'm stuck with those dreadful Maxim magazines. No amount of soft-core porn can compensate for the oft-vacuous content it possesses.

But I will always cherish my memories of EGM, as I eagerly anticipated the next issue to come in the mail. I think that medium (in terms of gaming news) is a bit antiquated now, I find gaming sites like this (and IGN, among others) to be more accessible at this point.

So, unless they extend or convert my remaining subscription back to EGM, I highly doubt that I'd re-enlist.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:44PM DaRabidDuckie said

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If Steve Harris is behind it, then I'm all for it.

My first EGM had Mega Man 3 on the cover. I remember back when it was Ed Semrad, Steve Harris, and Sushi-X. Those men were gods in my eyes, because they got to play video games as a job.

Fifteen years later, I was doing it myself. Then I learned to never make a job out of something you love, because then it becomes work once a deadline is involved. :(
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:50PM MGarvey said

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember that issue! Hell, I might still have it tucked away in a cabinet somewhere in my house! It was the issue with Bramstoker Dracula on the cover!
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:51PM MGarvey said

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This comment was meant for RiccochetJ...damn comment system!
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 4:59PM (Unverified) said

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Yay, but seems kind of stupid to split the content up. Why not just put it all into print?
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 5:08PM cesaria said

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I'll definitely be subscribing if they can get some exclusive content....that will leak to the internet five minutes later. Well shit. Eh, I liked reading the editorials.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 5:57PM (Unverified) said

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[banned]
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 5:16PM (Unverified) said

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Nobody will be receiving continuations of old subscriptions, as they are operating under a completely different publishing company now.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 5:25PM Jack Tretton said

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"...prankster Sean 'Seanbaby' Reiley..."

http://xspblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/swb251lt.jpg
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 5:28PM Deck said

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While I wish them all the best of luck and its really neat that they are bringing some guys back together like Dan Hsu and so forth, the realistic part of me says that this is not going to work. The sad truth is that paper mags, especially in the gaming sphere are on the serious decline. No matter who you put in it or associate with it, I don't think it is going to go so well.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 5:54PM lunarlasso said

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I love printed media. EGM was one of my favorites; but like many here. I think it's going the way of the dodo. I hope not though. I love my play magazine.
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Posted: Dec 21st 2009 8:47PM (Unverified) said

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DaRabidDuckie you and I must have lived very similar lives. A few years ago I quit a fulltime career in game journalism and it was the best day of my life. That job took everything about my favorite hobby and eventually distorted it into something I dreaded doing. Now I play for fun, don't get paid for it, or have to answer to angry PR people about mine or my writing staff's opinions. I absolutely do miss the free games that were delivered to my door, but I can live with that.

EGM was the best in the early years because they weren't afraid to tell it like it is/was.
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Posted: Dec 22nd 2009 12:13AM NastyGamer said

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Am I the only one NOT getting excited about this. You pay for the print magazine to get access to a weekly interactive magazine EGMi to get old news already seen here on Joystiq for free. Plus Shoe and SeanBaby's antics are a negative, not a positive in my book.
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Posted: Dec 22nd 2009 1:52AM Karate Tortoise said

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I'm not excited either. Show was okay, but i was really hoping seanbaby would not return. Also it sounds like its still going to be violently biased towards the xbox 360
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Posted: Dec 22nd 2009 9:34AM Breakdown said

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I feel the same as you. It was good in it's day, but that day went bye-bye a long time ago as they failed to stay relevant.

It's funny, if everyone freaking out with happiness over the news had actually been subscribers, EGM probably wouldn't have went under the first time!
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Posted: Dec 22nd 2009 3:07AM LiquidPrimus said

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I guess everyone didn't enjoy seanbaby's articles as much as my friends and I did.
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