Would you read a short GW magazine?

That is going to be solid base on which 'zine gets built. Anything biger or PvE related is going to be welcome extra and if it is not enough, well, there is always going to be PvP digest at core to make it worth reading and creating ...

Besides, even PvE has potential. Despite being static and fully explored, there is always some new detail even for veterans of 5 years. And I can imagine well written articles by teambuild build creators like Arkantos & co. which go much deeper than just skill list and press order be quite interesting read, no?

I should also mention your guide on the Warrior class, and I hope to pull something from the sketch of a great guide that darkNecrid wrote a little while ago (if you're reading, let me know).

Maybe the nature of the guide is PvX, because many things can actually cross the barrier PvE/PvP, which is obviously a topic that will be discussed. There would be a bit for everyone, as much as can be done given the collaborative nature of the project.

It's going to be tough to be interesting for everyone, whatever level of skill/play, but if some of the people on my list could contribute a little bit (like Arkantos, Avarre, Inde, Koenig, tmakinen, Billiard, Ensign, holymasamune, and many of the PvPers I only know from their Guru posts, sorry for those I forgot in this post!) it's possible.

I shall say that I welcome posts that argue why one wouldn't read this magazine.

I can assure you, even the haters will read it, if only to hate on it afterwards.

Maybe the combination of a council and a magazine (that also has articles about that council) could make things more interesting. Although I wonder if a council would be a good idea. I don't want a bunch of fanbois to represent me, because they lack the neutrality to be critical.

Care to elaborate what exactly this supposed council is representing? What are their tasks etc.?

I always looked foward to the "Heal Bot" cartoon monk series and "The Scribe" series... kinda do miss those. I guess something from each of those would be cool along with a GvG Monthly Update, skill(s) of the month, a column from Regina notes and Updates to look foward to... would be a good read, let me know if you want some help with that.

There's still a PVP scene in this game? I thought it died a bleeding death with TGH. And no, a tournament in which one team wins over and over doesn't really count as a "scene" imo.

Too late for this kind of thing, really.

Anyone remember Photics around release? That was actually useful.

I think.

Might as well use this suggestion as a suggestion for the posters here to write better thought out opening posts.
The only thing you'd gain by posting opinions in an magazine form compared to a forum post is the pretty from being able to edit it nicely with some shiny pictures.
But you lose the option of the subsequent discussion, and I feel that's just not worth it.


Now on the other hand if it was OFFICIAL with new stuff - then we are onto something!

the council would include people from the community that people trust, community reps from the big fan sites, etc

it would also have input from Regina and Martin,but would not include them as the council would be there to help them and help us and ideas couldbeput forward to the council andvoted on before they passed them on rather than them dealing with some of the signal/noise ratio... and hell, if the player council hates the ideas then its players saying no to it before the devs put it in place and we all scream that its rubbish

for info, you can read up on Eve's player council here:

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• The CSM Category on Evelopedia for all pages and subcategories related to the CSM
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I think it's a great idea to start working on this now.

Once GW2 info starts coming, it will be nice to have everything in one space, with "expert" commentary from your writers.

You need to start working on this now:

To establish an audience.

To have practice, and decide how things will be organized.


Good luck, and keep us posted!


EDIT: Forgot to mention what I'd want to see:

Lore
info on places "off the trail"
Any new info on GW2 that can be gotten from Anet would be HUGE (obviously)

So how would we know that this council isn't filled with a combonation of the worst players and Anet's cronies?

IMO it's a bad idea if ANet used it.

I'd definitely read one. I'd hope for something like The Scribe, just released far more consistantly and a wee bit more in-depth.

Lore and trivia would be a cute addition, I suppose. Amongst other examples people have mentioned, anyway.

There really isn't anything to read about Guild Wars.

A Guild Wars 2 magazine would be pretty nice; I would definitely subscribe to it.

maybe 4 years ago, currently there isn't enough gw news to fill the back of a beer mat.

From the GW community news:

http://photics.com/team-up-with-phot...wars-magazine/

Photics is trying to reboot. I hope they succeed.

I'll make one. If it's going to be as PvP-centric as it sounds, I'll have no reason to read it whatsoever.

I would read such a journal.
The only issue is keeping all the material fresh, views balanced, etc. A magazine/journal which is forced to run two articles on the same thing in separate issues tend to not hold interest very long.

Of course!

...if it's free.

You make a very good point there ^^

Maybe if 2/3 of the magazine goes about pve and 1/3 about pvp that they can put an interesting read together.