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Charlie Dayman · May 08, 2010, 12:49 AM // 00:49

Neat, I was wondering when this would be finished. Wasn't sure if you guys had gotten the green light form Anet. I'll have a read through this later tonight.

And thanks for putting some of my art in there.

Malchior Devenholm · May 08, 2010, 01:09 AM // 01:09

Your art was awesome Charlie!

Cuilan · May 08, 2010, 01:41 AM // 01:41

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Originally Posted by Dutch Sunshine

Yeah, all true, but our policy is to bring you news in a different manner, we are not there to go and speculate, we're there to state the facts.

People speculate because they already know facts. The of facts given by such a project would be ones already told from pre-existing sites or from playing the game. One would rather speculate, debate, or such rather than rehashing information that can already be easily found.

If you want to tell jokes, tell them where there's already people, not on a small site that will be given up on.

Kerwyn Nasilan · May 08, 2010, 02:01 AM // 02:01

Interview was all I skimmed through but looks nice.

Ashigaru · May 08, 2010, 06:30 AM // 06:30

You made a very good job guys

dancing gnome · May 08, 2010, 08:08 AM // 08:08

Grats on the interview with Ree Soesbee. She gave some nice meaty answers and brought a little more information to the GW2 collection. If you guys could get an interview/Q&A each month it would obviously help hook people into reading the mag and maybe some of the other content. Over time this would keep people interested long enough for you to grow into your own comfort zone.

Good work on the layout, it was easy to read and it looked good. Using relevant concept art not only showed off the art but also helped focus on the content of the articles. The navigation buttons were cool and overall the pdf thing works, I just can't help thinking, for a number of reasons, a website would be vastly superior.

Personally, a lot of the content was just repeating things I had already read elsewhere, but with things like the Great Dragons, it acts as a good primer for people who haven't had the time to chase down all the individual interviews and sources, or simply just forgot. There isn't a lot you could do to avoid this (as there is only so much new content that exists) but if you can focus on primers for the players, particularly about topical issues, I could see this developing into something which carves out a nice little niche for itself. On that topic, I can't help but feel an opportunity was missed by choosing fire as the first issue's theme. The War in Kryta is very topical at the moment and jogging reader's memories on lore and events relevant to the Shining Blade and White Mantle histories would have been very cool.

My final comment is that an almost 40mb file is very large. If I was still on dial up this would be enough to eliminate me from even considering downloading it. If it was a web page, you could release the content at different intervals, increasing chances of individual articles being read and people wouldn't have to download such a large file to read one article. A website would also ad an interactive element to the "magazine" in the form of comments.

With all that said, great first issue guys. I really hope you keep with this, it could turn into something really good for the community.

Arduin · May 08, 2010, 09:41 AM // 09:41

Nicely done! I wonder how many peeps are interested in reading stuff about GW1, but like you said, it will gather a crowd for when you all start making Guild 2 Mag.

/clap

Dutch Sunshine · May 08, 2010, 12:24 PM // 12:24

Yeah, we're going to evaluate this release for our next releases,hopefully we work out some kinks in the way! Next issue will be hosted on our private server, 2gb without datalimit.

QueenofDeath · May 08, 2010, 12:55 PM // 12:55

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Originally Posted by Cuilan

Or we can just discuss all the same stuff here without having to visit another site or to download something.

Or getting trojans or backdoor viruses and the like from suspicious and/or malicious websites. (Don't go there kiddies without your parents permission)

)

Think of those links as likened to a stranger offering you candy.

Dutch Sunshine · May 08, 2010, 01:12 PM // 13:12

As I said in my post before yours QoD, we'll be having our private download link for the next few issues, which ofcourse will not have any trojans or other nasty stuff.

QueenofDeath · May 08, 2010, 03:35 PM // 15:35

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Originally Posted by Dutch Sunshine

As I said in my post before yours QoD, we'll be having our private download link for the next few issues, which ofcourse will not have any trojans or other nasty stuff.

That's what all wolves in sheeps clothing would say as they prey on the innocent lambs.

Don't go there children you could bet bitten by the mean old wolves and get a virus or a trojan and there goes your puter and your Guild Wars game.

Plus I never liked anyone trying to get free advertisement using game forums instead of contacting the administrator and getting a banner or something and PAY for it at the top.

Dutch Sunshine · May 08, 2010, 04:29 PM // 16:29

I did contact JR, frankly enough, he's very supportive of our idea and you'll surely see that come back in our next issue!

JR · May 08, 2010, 04:42 PM // 16:42

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Originally Posted by QueenofDeath

Plus I never liked anyone trying to get free advertisement using game forums instead of contacting the administrator and getting a banner or something and PAY for it at the top.

Dutch did indeed contact me, and has our full support with this project. It's a fantastic magazine, and free for everyone to enjoy.

I really don't see the logic in expecting a non-commercial community driven magazine to pay for advertising on a community forum, or shell out for expensive file hosting.

poppu16 · May 08, 2010, 10:52 PM // 22:52

haven't got a lot of time for reading this today, but a quick look at your mag is really appealing !
Nice design, lore content, interviews, even music (GW faction one, haven't turn on music on GW since, humm ... almost 2+ years ??).
And thank for that BranShew7 youtube channel, very impressive !!!

Congratz for your mag, amazing fan dedication !

Vital Spark · May 09, 2010, 05:31 AM // 05:31

Amazing job, love the design and the whole outcome, its looks like a lot of time spent on it,
keep it up.

to all bitchers : How about some f appreciation? They done it for the community and you are bitch slapping it back? Thats why no one will ever will say Gw community is worth sticking around, feel ashamed for the gaming community Im in.

Myster Grim · May 09, 2010, 12:13 PM // 12:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dutch Sunshine

Yeah, we're going to evaluate this release for our next releases,hopefully we work out some kinks in the way! Next issue will be hosted on our private server, 2gb without datalimit.

Thank you I am not worried about the size its the FTP server we were forced to used. Thanks for a great issue.

Wish Swiftdeath · May 09, 2010, 05:16 PM // 17:16

Don't usually post but that's a very pretty mag, i've read alot of the information in it before but I still enjoyed reading it. Thanks and keep up the good work

Dutch Sunshine · May 09, 2010, 06:14 PM // 18:14

Wow, thanks for the positive comments so far, the community is the middle of our magazine, without you we wouldnt be there. That means, everyone can contribute, screenshots, artwork, lore, fanfic, music, you name it, we have a place for it(as long as it fits in a pdf

)

Mini Lich · May 09, 2010, 10:35 PM // 22:35

I, Quite Simply, could not get enough of this magazine, it is amazing that the community can do something this cool, and, to such a high standard, good job. By the way i see alot of people commenting on grammar and such, i would be willing to check over that for you, it would be nice to be involved, i have a advanced english course degree, and im english, if that helps.

Dutch Sunshine · May 09, 2010, 10:57 PM // 22:57

I'll keep you in mind, but so far I've got enough applications for that post, might we figure that we need more editors in the future, we'll surely check who proposed it first!

Also, I'm really glad you liked the magazine