GitarooMan
Member
There is no way they will get that many ads.djtiesto said:
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
EGM is coming back. For serious.
- Thread starter skip
- Start date
SuperMattyFighter2T
Banned
Alphahawk said:
If this is print they have no chance.
CriscoDisco
Member
Oh man, I wish they could get the old band back together. I loved EGM so much because I came to know everyone at the magazine through years of reading their articles.
TitaniumGroceries
Banned
All they need is some softcore/hardcore porn and EGM will not possibly fail.Alphahawk said:
shpankey
not an idiot
They could be successful if they'd just stop giving away the next 25 years in free subscriptions to their core audience. I honestly don't mind paying if it helps them keep quality writers with quality content... but of course, if you give shit away I'm going to take it. I heard once, from some magazine guy talk about how the more subscribers they had, the more money it cost them (I shit you not) and the less money they made (probably due to the 1st sentence I wrote, above).
If your business model is done in a way where that is the case, you are seriously not doing it right. You should be making more money via subscription fees and ad revenue for higher readership.
If your business model is done in a way where that is the case, you are seriously not doing it right. You should be making more money via subscription fees and ad revenue for higher readership.
JimtotheHum
Member
TitaniumGroceries said:
and Shane Bettenhausen...but, for the love of god, don't mix the two!
Blender went bankrupt: http://www.foliomag.com/2009/breaking-blender-foldsAlphahawk said:
So did Official PlayStation Magazine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_U.S._PlayStation_Magazine
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
A local grocery store still has the last issue of EGM on the shelf! :lol Its the frickin January issue!!
I'm hoping new EGM shows up soon and, at this store at least, it will be like it was never gone!
I'm hoping new EGM shows up soon and, at this store at least, it will be like it was never gone!
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
yeah my local library still has the wolverine issue on the periodicals shelf. part of me is sad because if there were never a new issue of egm i could go back in ten years to the library and read about how great a game wolverine is going to be.
Pizza Luigi
Member
Oh schnaps!
thebaroness
Member
I'm excited. I used to love old EGM.
PseudoPrime1979
Neo Member
So now I need to read Jesus EGM, Gamepro (for John Davison) and Game Informer (in part for Phil Kollar, in part because I get it regardless). The magazine era is dead, long live the MAGAZINE!
KittyKittyBangBang
Member
I have my doubts that it will be successful with a whole new cast of folks. What made EGM/1up great are the personalities.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Off topic, but whatever happened to the lost final issue of EGM? Did that ever get released or is it still on some Ziff Davis hard drive?
Edit: Never mind, it looks like they'll put it up eventually.
Edit: Never mind, it looks like they'll put it up eventually.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Sapiens said:
Fuck yeah, Steve Harris is awesome.
..oh wait, you didn't mean the Iron Maiden bassist?
Coolio McAwesome
Member
YoungHav said:
Actually, that issue only had 162 pages. But who's counting?
SuperPac
Member
shpankey said:
Actually giving away those subscriptions kept their circulation numbers up which allowed them to charge what they were charging for ads. Without that they would've had to possibly give money back to advertisers and then not be able to charge as much. So... yeah. Unfortunately there comes a point where you can't maintain, especially when advertisers moved away from print or wanted to spend less.
DancingJesus
Banned
Aw hell yea. Finally!, some bathroom reading material.
RadarScope1
Member
Good luck to them, but I think there are just too many factors working against possible success here.
SuperPac
Member
Tobor said:
Well it's different now. He's starting from 0. New EGM doesn't have to hit the circ numbers of old EGM (especially since he didn't buy the subscriber base off of Ziff, which IMO was probably a very good thing). They could start with a realistic rate base that's more attuned to this new era of print with a lower circ and probably be OK. I mean, Play is still around...what does that tell you?
SuperMattyFighter2T said:
Monocle Magazine.
- $10
- Subscriptions cost MORE than newsstand
- Massively successful
- Increasing readership
Of course judging a book by its cover this EGM seems to be going for the exact same hardcore gamer demographic and news/previews/reviews as the old EGM so it'll never have the success that Monocle is having.
Asking this question is probably going to make me look like a scrub, but the only indication of hiring I can find is on EGMNOW's twitter page, but there are no details included as to what they want potential writers to submit or requirements to be hired.
I suppose there's the usual stuff (work history, samples, etc.), but I'd hate to send along an application with extraneous information or without knowing that I'm going to be automatically disqualified in one way or another beforehand.
I suppose there's the usual stuff (work history, samples, etc.), but I'd hate to send along an application with extraneous information or without knowing that I'm going to be automatically disqualified in one way or another beforehand.