Pgi

[Bla Bla Bla]

I remember when PGI stopped that it was hoped it would be a pause rather than a complete stop of the magazine and was just curious at to whether there is any light at the end of the tunnel in terms of starting it up again?

It really sucks not having a Magazine from a tournament players perspective and from a general public/new players perspective. (I remember buying it in WH Smith back in the day.)

I'm guessing the economic climate hasn't improved sufficiently to make it viable but here's hoping....

 

[Echowitch]

Ditto, especially as the alternatives are either difficult to get hold of or just straight out pants !!

PGI rocked and I still flick through old editions. Hopefully it will come back, even if just in an online form like Splat or X3, if not in a print format !!

 

[Piper]

It all boils down to advertisers, if they don't have the advertsisers then they cannot make money on the magazine and no publishing house will do that, they may to get a magazine off the ground but at some point they will pull the plug, it is a business after all!

That being said when the industry picks up and there is more money around then hopefully it will make a return, but until that day I don't see it happening, which is a shame and annoying but it is fact of life and business

 

[Bla Bla Bla]

I assume that the magazine cannot sustane itself on subscribers alone? (with a little advertising revenue)

 

[Piper]

Not even close pal

 

[Bla Bla Bla]

Damn that's annoying!!

 

[Robbo]

Damn that's annoying!!

Annoying maybe but the magazine sales just about covered the printing costs and then all the other things had to be paid for, wages, rent, rates, telephone, distribution, the list goes on ....

And it was these expenses that predominated the major chunk of advertising revenue leaving little for the profit wallet.

Still, Matt (Rancid) kept PGi going for about 18 months when most owners would have pulled the plug long before..... he had started PGi and had a soft spot for our magazine that bit into his wallet big time in its final phases in the hope things would turn around .... they didn't.

I doubt very much PGi will be resurrected, in fact I'm sure it won't.
We had our day, and myself and Matt liked to think we had a great magazine that did a great job both in content and design.

I miss writing for Matt / PGi and it seems sad because I was out for a meal with him last Saturday night and neither of us talked much about PGi preferring not to enter a sombre and probably emotional subject area.

We had our critics, but they were few and far between and the vast, vast majority respected us and what we tried to do.

I miss our magazine and I miss Matt, he stood by me for a long time and is a true friend.

 

[Bla Bla Bla]

Thanks for taking the time out to fill me in. Very sad it probably won't be back..