Why I will not pay for PremiumFollow

Then don't get premium. If a service or product is not to your liking, then you probably shouldn't be purchasing it.

The magazine subscription is literally free. The publishers have to offer a "refund" so that they can call it a paid subscription in the numbers they give to their advertisers, but what they're actually doing is giving you a free subscription to boost their numbers, and paying you if you decide you don't want it. As a result, it's not a shock that you must deal with the publishers directly to "recover" this refund.

The process is also quite straightforward. If you consider it "difficult," you might have other issues.

You only get the magazine if you give them your name and address. You have to optionally provide that information before they will send it to you. The difficult part is the getting of the refund. When you get premium. the money you pay goes to us, which then goes to corporate where they use it to pay for things like my salary and new servers. We don't actually send any of the money to the magazine company. It was a deal worked out so they could get their magazine (and therefore the ads in the magazine) out to gamers. So from our perspecitve its not like we are charging you more than we otherwise would be for premium. And you don't have to give them your actual address. Hell I can't even get them to actually send me my copy of the mahazine.

That is somewhat out of date by the way, it should say "games for Windows magazine" since CGW ceased existing.

Don't worry , most likely you will never get the mag anyway

After year after year of not receiving my magazine, I've taken to shoplifting a copy of Games for Windows once a month. I feel I'm justified.

Come on, people, seriously....

This has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard... and I've heard it twice now.

What the hell is wrong with you people??

Vitamin D deficiency is my guess.

If a free magazine is what makes or breaks the premium deal for you, then you're obviously not paying attention to what this site is about or what premium offers.

The magazine's a joke anyways. It's not like anyone actually gets it anyways.

Yes. I don't even get my copy.

While I appricate your helpfulness, I do not care about a free magazine.
I have to give my name and address to pay with a credit card.
I do not want this magazine because I live in an apartment building in Seattle, my mail box is small and I travel a lot for work. I have to keep my mail limited or the postman flips out. Having stupid junk mail or magazine subscriptions quickly fills a mailbox.


Obviously you never had to cancel one of these 'free' subscriptions before, they lose your letter, didn't get it, can't find you in the system, ok now you won't get it, oh you are still getting it? they will fix it right away, etc.


Why not a 4th choice, "No thanks"?


I have had premium for a long time, I canceled it because I quit playing for a while. There are competitor sites that are just as good, if not better, they can have my money.

So thanks for all the snide comments, yet another reason to leave this site.

Apparently!

I get it. My cat also likes to play with the magazine. Let's just say "Double the Pleasure!"

Sigged.

lol I get the Magazine.