Cost of PC game magazines..

To be fair the price hasn't increased all that much.... around 20% over 5 years or something like that? Not too much ahead of inflation.

If I didn't have internet access I'd be happy to pay £6 for one. As it stands though, I think I've only bought about 3 gaming mags since going to uni in 1998.

I can appreciate why others buy them for nice writing or wanting something to read away from their PC, but for me I just read books. Can't be bothered reading outdated news or a single reviewers opinion when I can access up to date info on the web together with dozens of reviews.
 
I dont really read reviews anymore online or in magazines. The video reviews on IGN give a much better view on whether or not you want to buy the game and they also have the latest news which magazines will never have.
 
micromart for the win , weekly rag so more upto date and has varied articles not just gamming . ( some nice linux bits now and then.) keeps me going at work when I'm on the bog skiving !
 
MrWhippy said:
i used to buy "sinclair user" a while back.
the games were free, but you had to type 'em in yourself :)
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Yeah, and then suffer severe eyestrain whilst your trying find the single character of machine code that you forgot. :eek:
 
Sinclair User was ok, but nothing compared to "Your Sinclair".

I'll never forget the joy of playing Duncan McDonald's "Lawnmower Simulator"
 
WatchTower said:
Micromart is the best value PC mag but it's more aimed at hardware than games.
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and its reviews are crap, and its only ever got 2-3 articles in it
and its articles tend to be pap too (read one on overclocking, instructions where so old and irrelevent to 99% of people, when was the last time you set a FSB using jumpers?)
used to get it loads but not anymore

PC games mags like PC Zone et all have lost a market really, before they used to be the only place to get demos, and could sell on having exclusive demos etc
but now its all online so they have to work on somthing else, normaly its reviews of new hardware or some screenshots of a new game or other, however recently new games and hardware has been thin on the ground (like, REALLY new stuff, not just yet another 8800 based graphics card, or yet another intel processor since Core 2s) so what is there to justify the price tag?
for that much I can go out and buy a book for crying out loud!
 
I remember Your Sinclair with free tapes, it was like my god free tapes ! gotta have it for the demo of the latest dizzy game ! waiting 40mins for your game to load and the crash the ZX 128k. Ah happy days.
 
Used to love them speccy mags, and the tapes especially them hack/cheat tapes i think they used to call cheats "pokes" or somit. Used to love getting guides and maps to games like dizzy or MOVIE etc. Like someone said, those were the days.. :)
 
Hahahha i used to have hundreds of sega power mags, then nintendo official magazine, then pc zone.... but these days as had been said the price is too much for what you actually get

By the time i got pc zone i had the net, i had no need for the demo cd's and they were stripped of the useful cases and binned without getting anywhere near my pc

If they offered the mag for under a fiver i would still buy it as it is a good read
 
*sheds a tear for Amstrad Action*

Ahh... the excitement of trying out the type-ins, and later on, the cover tapes :)

I still have a tonne of those mags, I still read through them occasionally. Makes me wish I was a kid again :(
 
I get PC Zone on subscription. Gives me something to read on a Sunday morning before the rest of the house wakes.

I would prefer if the cover DVD was an option. It seems a bit of a blag to justify the expense by DVD content. I hardly ever use the DVDs.
 
The cost of any magazine is £1.59 (the cost of a filter coffee in the Barsucks cafés that have infested every single Borders store ;) )

PS. For added irony bring your own coffee of the Too Much Coffee Man magazine and lay it on the table, preferably the issue with the "SUED BY STARBUCKS" cover story :p
 
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