[POLL] Affects of the Magazine on Your SubscriptionFollow

Did'nt sway me one way or the other

I don't think I'd even realized there was a magazine subscription till I had premium for over a year. Never received one issue, and wouldn't have it any other way. I get enough crap in my mailbox as it is.

One of the only reasons I continued my subscription was because of the magazine.

I hope this poll isn't some sort of trial baloon to see about doing away with it.

I got a magazine in early 2004 and another in December '04 with a guide to leveling a WoW character quickly. If my magazine ever showed up after that it may have swayed me one way or another.

Edited, May 20th 2007 4:55pm by Natdatilgnome

For a night with Darqflame? Hell yeah!

Wait, magazine? Oh hell, I'll still keep my account.. But I'll make a mopey face.

Guess I chose option A, since they don't send the mag to canucks. Must be that strict border.

The magazine contributed to my decision to intially subscribe, a bit. But as to my decision to continue renewing, that was all about the site itself.

I was seriously considering upgrading to premium until I saw the magazine thing. I do not want a magazine and I think it's absolutely insane that you are forcing me to pay for an unrelated service and then make me send a SASE to get my money back if I don't want said service. Give me the option to opt out of the magazine subscription (and therefore charge me less for premium) and I'll upgrade in a heartbeat.

You are NOT paying for the magazine, it's a PERK. Albeit a lousy one atm. Everyone who gets premium pays the same amount whether you get the magazine or not. (read: EU = no mag)

I don't blame you, I agree there should be an opt out, thus the reason for the poll originally. However those types of things are beyond my control at this time. I am still on my soap box tho! I think it should be removed, please note that is my personal opinion and not the opinion of my employer. (just in case I needed to add that)

I'm going to step away from the crowd and go my own way, as usual. :)

The magazine actually did have an influence on me. It was a magazine I had been wanting to subscribe to anyway. The annual subscription price was, I think, about $25 a year at the time. (It's now $20 a year.) Alla's Premium runs about $40 per year. So it was more than just a perk; it was a pretty huge benefit for me. It effectively reduced the Alla's subscription price to $15 a year.

I subscribe to Alla's Premium mostly for one thing: the advanced EQ item search. Yes, I know there are other benefits, but this was the one that trumped them all. That search was easily worth $15 a year. Now I have to evaluate whether it's worth $40 a year. With Magelo and other sites ramping up their EQ support, this is a risky time indeed for Alla's to reduce the value of a premium membership. (And yes, I know EQ is only a tiny fragment of the overall site. Still, it's the one I use most, so to me, it's the most critical one.)