I grabbed a copy of PC Gamer, the Guild Wars 2 edition and I wasn't very happy with it. The main article was good but overall, it kinda lack compared to game web sites/blogs such as Gamespot and Joystiq. Some of their reviews are from a few paragraphs to one page long with very little about the game. Some of the fonts were too small too.
The paper quality is lame, the copy I got was only about 90+ pages long and cost around $12 CAD. Magazines from 10+ years were much better in quality than today. It's just not enough bang for your bucks. However, they do have an annual subscription of $19.95, that alone might be worth it. You might be reading stale news in the bathroom most of the time.
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Who in their right mind would pay for individual magazines when the subscription prices for thirteen of them is usually about the price of two or three? Not only that, but you get one nobody else has put their grubby hands on, and it's always in the plastic, and PCG mails you earlier versions before they put them out on the shelfs sometimes.
Judging it by the stand price is not really reasonable, and the rest of your arguments are.. really nitpicky about stupid things. Paper quality.. font size.. I'm assuming the person asking is asking which mag he should subscribe to.
And that's another thing about PCG. I can easily get great, long reviews on even the smallest most inconspicuous games in the world, whereas magazines have a limit on how many games they can include, and I'm assuming most would make less popular games a bit smaller reviews and more popular or potentially popular games bigger reviews. But you can get huge reviews for free from gamespot or something. The reason PCGamer is a good magazine is because it has more than that, like I said earlier. It could have the best magical amazing reviews in the world, but I doubt I wouldn't be able to find just as good ones over this huge internet. It's an experience, man. An experience.
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