White Dwarf changes/cancellation?

[MoriyaSchism]

43 minutes ago, phandaal said:

Something fishy is definitely going on in the GW marketing department right now. Anybody else see that new GW logo they came up with?

Yeah, it's really bland. Matches their current output quite well. 

[phandaal]

10 minutes ago, MoriyaSchism said:

Yeah, it's really bland. Matches their current output quite well. 

 

Looks like someone took the logo and removed all of the fun and life from it. And what is left is literally just the black line skeleton of the original logo. Wild how bad it is.

[INKS]

If it goes digital then I am not interested. I said above and before I want to hold it in my hands. I spend a lot of time in the hospital these days. I want to have a magazine to read. I know I am an edge case for sure. but I do not want to look on my tiny screen to read and skim the magazine. 

[TheVoidDragon]

3 hours ago, phandaal said:

Something fishy is definitely going on in the GW marketing department right now. Anybody else see that new GW logo they came up with?

 

I'm not sure that's a recent thing. Looking at my still in box "provisionally prepared" miniature from October last year, it has that.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Maybe it will become the black chorf?

 

8 hours ago, INKS said:

If it goes digital then I am not interested. I said above and before I want to hold it in my hands. I spend a lot of time in the hospital these days. I want to have a magazine to read. I know I am an edge case for sure. but I do not want to look on my tiny screen to read and skim the magazine. 

A lot of people want physical media still. 
just look at the number of people who still want physical codexes anytime someone on here talks about how GW should just go all digital.

[INKS]

I should be a little more clear. If they want to go digital that is ok. But I still want them to offer a physical copy.

[Felix Antipodes]

The trouble is WD is still being designed as a gateway into the hobby and not for old grognards like us.  This is why it still covers (or attempts to) everything GW throws out.  Warhammer Community suffers from something similar.  I can’t see that policy changing which means WD will continue to slip away from the interest of long time hobbyists. 

In a way it is analogous to where music magazines went.  Back in the day there were magazines/papers that covered everything.  Over time these wained and/or disappeared and now the survivors concentrate on a niche style rather than the whole.

 

WD is also a victim of its own past as well.  For those who were there (and it appears a lot on this forum were) the “Fat Bloke” years were the pinnacle of the magazine - and they were.  For many, it was central to the hobby and was eagerly awaited each month.  It was full of larger than like characters like Andy Chambers, Jarvis Johnson, et al, that kept us amused and informed.  GW has been either chasing that zeitgeist or trying to deny it ever since by attempting to keep their talent anonymous, removing their names from everything from rulebooks and codices to WD articles.