Monday, March 10, 2014

Poll Results - the New White Dwarf(s)



Our last poll question was:

Last week, it was announced that the White Dwarf would not continue as Games Workshop's monthly hobby magazine. It will be replaced by four weekly mini-magazines and a larger monthly publication called "Warhammer Visions". Is this a good thing?

Here's what you thought:

9%             Yes - White Dwarf was a stale catalog and it needed gone. Best to chuck it and start over with  something else
15%           No - WD should have been saved to continue as a monthly mag. So much history there
50%           No - flush the lot. I don't need to buy a monthly catalog for $10

24%           No - don't play the games, don't buy the WD, don't give a rip

Me, I tended to think the old Dwarf, while needing drastic improvement, was worth saving. However having bought a few weeks' worth of the new weekly organ, I like the new direction. The new weekly Dwarf seems to have a lot more focus to its content and there's certainly much less overt advertising. The mag isn't wrapped in plastic which makes it easier to pick up in the shop for a flick through to determine whether it's worth taking home. I quite enjoyed the previous two issues with their exclusive focus on the Imperial Knight for 40K - however, I dropped by the store on Saturday, had a look at the latest number with the latest awful plastic hell-thing for Chaos Space Marines, and put it back on the shelf.

As for "Visions", I bought the first one, thought it was very pretty but with very little compelling content, and haven't bought another. 










2 comments:

legatus hedlius said...

My only issue with the new weekly and the old monthly was that they have given up on any Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit content completely.

As I don't play the other two games I have stopped buying it.

Dallas said...

Good point, LH. Warhammer Visions (the monthly) does have some LotR/Hobbit content (or at least the first one did) but it's a bit of a crapshoot whether to buy it, since it's wrapped in plastic and has no contents listed on the covers...!