Retro Gaming Magazine

[zapiy]

Yeah sorry to hear about that fella, hope it's resolved quickly for you.

[Greyfox]

Very sorry to hear this, I would offer my services, but unfortunately I'm producing a magazine with multi-media content of my own at the moment and would not viable to help at this time, but I might be able to fit one of your Articles in for a layout, contact me via PM to discuss it further.

[triverse]

We will no longer be pursuing a print/PDF version of Retro Gaming Magazine at this time.  While this is not a cancellation of the magazine, it is putting it on indefinite hiatus.  Due to unforseen costs and trouble finding a place in the gaming community, the magazine is not financially capable of continuing.

The site will continue onward though.  We will be looking to add additional staff to assist in producing quality articles online in the retro realm.  Once we have a stable staff on the site and have built a sizeable fanbase, we may attempt the magazine again.  This is a forward-thinking goal at this time and one that I personally believe is attainable within a respectable time frame.

At this time, the website needs to be our focus as it allows our best qualities to shine without being held back by a predetermined time frame.  Editorial goals will be easier to reach and easier to promote on gaming news sites.  The current success of the website is solely due to being able to promote the available content widely on the web and have other, more prominent sites such as Polygon, Cinemassacre and others link to it.  Right now, RGM has more regular visitors than several other websites classified as "retro".  RGM is nearing the top 100,000 websites in the United States (well under the 600,000 most popular websites in the world).  This is because of the great support modern day gamers have placed in the website.  We simply were not able to convert that attention into support for the magazine.

By continuing the lackluster magazine we risk losing the momentum that we have built up with the site.  Losing that momentum now could be detrimental to RGM in the longterm on many levels.  With the current size of our editorial staff, we can support either the site or the mag but not both.  This decision is one that was hard to accept but we have to do what is most likely to keep RGM going forward.

I want to personally thank each and every one of our readers for their support and assistance in the creation of the first two issues of RGM.  Issue three will come some day, just not in the next few months.

Refunds of subscriptions will begin shortly and will be made to the account that they were paid from with Paypal.

[Greyfox]

All I can say is  to hear this..best of luck with the site.

[TrekMD]

Oh wow, that is sad news indeed.  Glad to see the site is doing well, though.  That is important as well and that is how RGM survives, then so be it.  Best of luck moving forward!

[TL]

Real shame to see yet another magazine go down the drain.

[zapiy]

We will no longer be pursuing a print/PDF version of Retro Gaming Magazine at this time.  While this is not a cancellation of the magazine, it is putting it on indefinite hiatus.  Due to unforseen costs and trouble finding a place in the gaming community, the magazine is not financially capable of continuing.

The site will continue onward though.  We will be looking to add additional staff to assist in producing quality articles online in the retro realm.  Once we have a stable staff on the site and have built a sizeable fanbase, we may attempt the magazine again.  This is a forward-thinking goal at this time and one that I personally believe is attainable within a respectable time frame.

At this time, the website needs to be our focus as it allows our best qualities to shine without being held back by a predetermined time frame.  Editorial goals will be easier to reach and easier to promote on gaming news sites.  The current success of the website is solely due to being able to promote the available content widely on the web and have other, more prominent sites such as Polygon, Cinemassacre and others link to it.  Right now, RGM has more regular visitors than several other websites classified as "retro".  RGM is nearing the top 100,000 websites in the United States (well under the 600,000 most popular websites in the world).  This is because of the great support modern day gamers have placed in the website.  We simply were not able to convert that attention into support for the magazine.

By continuing the lackluster magazine we risk losing the momentum that we have built up with the site.  Losing that momentum now could be detrimental to RGM in the longterm on many levels.  With the current size of our editorial staff, we can support either the site or the mag but not both.  This decision is one that was hard to accept but we have to do what is most likely to keep RGM going forward.

I want to personally thank each and every one of our readers for their support and assistance in the creation of the first two issues of RGM.  Issue three will come some day, just not in the next few months.

Refunds of subscriptions will begin shortly and will be made to the account that they were paid from with Paypal.

Good luck with it fella, one thing i noticed was your lack of Pageranking on google??

[triverse]

Good luck with it fella, one thing i noticed was your lack of Pageranking on google??

I am working on improving (getting anything) on Google Page Rank for RGM.  This could be because it is a new site and less than 100 "more credible" sites are linking in (right now, Alexa shows about 55). 

The mag is not completely dead at this time but it is on severe life support.  Sucks but it is just not meant to be at this time, if at all.

[zapiy]

And don't always listen to Alexa mate. I did for too long and found it's only half the help it appears to be.

As for the mag, I am sure you will sort something out long term.

[triverse]

I only use Alexa as a yard stick, nothing concrete.  For stats I go with several from Google Analytics to Wordpress and raw server stats and do an average between them.  I have learned Alexa is a wild unreliable beast to say the least but it is still used by PR companies as the holy grail when working with sites so I have to keep an eye on that aspect.

Until we can put together a team with a layout designer the mag won't be back.  It was my own hard headedness that pushed it through as it was and it was obviously not the right thing to do.

[TrekMD]

Until we can put together a team with a layout designer the mag won't be back.  It was my own hard headedness that pushed it through as it was and it was obviously not the right thing to do.

I thought you had found someone to be the layout designer.  That didn't pan out?

[triverse]

We did but they backed out after doing only a couple of pages.  They wanted to go up on their per page rate and I couldn't cover the additional costs they wanted added. 

[TrekMD]

We did but they backed out after doing only a couple of pages.  They wanted to go up on their per page rate and I couldn't cover the additional costs they wanted added.

No good. 

[Greyfox]

So in other words they dictated what "Your" magazine was going to contain? But this is / was up to you? Your the one paying them , yet they took charge? In terms of layouts for magazine, you simply needed to produce about 10-15 and work from that on a regular basis, you only need employ new layouts for a special feature that doesn't fit the layouts you already have, quite simply really, Retro, Retro gamer magazine do it to death, because they simply don't have the resources make brand new ones every single month.

I think your Might have jumped the gun here alittle and expected possible success rate at such a short time space, and to be honest all this should of being thought out long before venturing into such waters, I hate to say it, as your magazine is a great little read, completely let down by layout issues, image quality and lack of presentation other than that of a fanzine. Sure I haven't even read about your magazine on other forums, other than I think TrekMD posted on Atari Age about it ? or maybe that was yourself, without hardly any awareness your never going to get the numbers, I seen nothing of twitter feeds , Facebook etc..and no advertisements of the magazine, other than the preview I created or you, I offered my help and you went cold on that and even offer you a full advert spread in my magazine to help it and nothing was presented to me or any notification of what you wanted to include.

So having a team to produce such a product is all well and good and I hope you land one at some stage, but without proper awareness all the work and effort will have been in vain and expect what has happened here to repeat itself time and time again.

Take care, I really do wish the magazine returns and this time if you do give a PDF, make it a preview only not the full magazine, it lowers ambition to protial buyer, they won't purchase nothing if they have the digital version.

Grey.