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nice, nice. would love it on a regular basis. but.. youtube-links @ site 68 are broken perhaps consider another way of linking things, in a way you can actually change the target (links in a form of http://glhfmag.com/links/2012/1/site1/a , you can change the target when a youtube-vod must be re-uploaded and changes its name etc)
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
On April 26 2012 22:36 SpaceYeti wrote:I guess Pony Tales is not a *real* magazine?  Looks great! Keep it up.  PT is a reflection of the TL forums, rather than the esports world
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This is awesome. Will read through it :D
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On April 26 2012 22:59 OpTiKDream wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2012 21:52 Emix_Squall wrote:I really don't mean to kill the mood but since I'm working in a PR agency specialized in online games communication (in Europe), I'm quite aware of how medias interact in this sector and I must say I'm doubting a little the viability of such a product. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great idea, the magazine actually looks amazing and so professional, that's exactly the kind of image e-sports need right now in order to broaden it's audience. Nevertheless, I'm really wondering what new content this magazine will bring to the table. I mean e-Sports is something that mostly appeals to computer online-gamers. Most of which (especially in the Starcraft community) spend a lot of time on forums, or different online platforms where they can talk about the game. Why would any of these people buy a magazine that basically says the same thing you can find on pretty much every Starcraft Forums? Moreover,without the possibility of interaction that the internet provides. Even though the product you worked on looks amazing and probably is, I don't know if anyone will feel the need to use it to get this kind of informations. You're basically posting on the platform of your biggest "competitor" ...  Um... thats why this magazine is free. Its basically a summed up version of alot of TL articles into one concise little page that sums up everything. No real navigation of TL pages to hunt formation down involved.
WTF plagiarism and leeching from TL
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First real SC2 magazine?
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Pony Express anyone?
A lot of the content does reflect these pages as well, but nothing wrong with more content. I wonder how they plan on getting more views though.
On April 26 2012 23:20 Plexa wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2012 22:36 SpaceYeti wrote:I guess Pony Tales is not a *real* magazine?  Looks great! Keep it up.  PT is a reflection of the TL forums, rather than the esports world
It really is no different than what our boys have been doing with the Pony Express now otherwise known as Pony Tales when you really look at it.
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This is really amazing, keep up the good work
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On April 26 2012 22:03 RolleMcKnolle wrote:I don't know if you have read what they wrote in the editorial, but they were saying that their aim is independent E-sports journalism. So they are trying to bring the stories that are not told on the forums but instead they are trying to further investigate into matters noone else tries to dig into. If this is helping us understanding the reactions of Koreans or following storylines a volatile online community would just forget about after some time and so on. I think they have their place in a gaming community but I don't know whether SC2 is big enough to maintain this. I was looking for a way to pay something for this but it is not that easy to find. Maybe they could improve on that one 
Which is fine, but there is also ESFI doing that too, and in a more effective way. As an editor at a magazine, I can say that the production is fine, and neat, and decent for first run. But the unofficial news desk that is TL and the more officially journalistic sites like ESFI that levy a core of folks with live, rather than curated, content are going to always beat GLHF to the punch. What a magazine should aim to do is step away from newsiness and get into feature content, which they approach here. But still, why I need to read it as a 68-page package versus a live-feature mag like Slate is beyond me. Still, as with all things in this still burgeoning market, I wish them luck.
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Looks so awesome, great job! :D
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Interesting magazine, and extremely entertaining you guys did an excellent job for your first issue :D
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This made my day. The articles were well written, solid layout and abundance of content. These guys should keep at it. Maybe by LOTV we`ll have a large enough following to justify selling these magazines at our local kiosks. Hell, I see magazines for absolutely every hobby you could possibly have. Would be fun to see the adds in a paper issue "GL HF" : " Ratz seeking more GM applicants. Link us your profile on fbook!"
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I like the content overall, however, I feel I need to point out a typo. On page 61, there is a picture of Leenok's Roaches attacking the Cybernetics Core of Naniwa, with the caption reading,
"Leenock safely exerts pressure on Naniwa’s expansion, sniping warp gate before it finishes."
However, on page 62, the same caption appears under an unrelated image of a large number of Roaches attacking a small Protoss army. Just thought I'd point that out. Good read, though.
If I may make a suggestion: Try trimming the fat a bit. Going up to 69 pages of content, not only does it require a lot of work, but you'll likely have a difficult time filling up all that space after a few issues. I'd rather have a few less articles, in favor of having the rest be a little more appealing.
While many of the pages came out very well (such as pages 7-8, "A question of Casters", and pages 34-36, "ThorZaIN speaks his mind"), others (such as pages 45, 47, 50, 63, and 64) instilled very unpleasant "Wall of text" feelings, most likely because the entire page was just gray text on a white background. I'm not saying the articles were poorly written, just that it's very easy to become disinterested halfway through. Even just a picture or two and some color can really make a difference.
Anyway, this is going on much longer than I anticipated, so if you'll pardon the prick-y-ness off my criticism, good work so far, and I'm looking forward to any future installments. GLHF.
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okay so i was like "yeah an sc2 magazine cool, gonna read some pages and get the gist of it, perhaps its goo.. WHAT THE FUCK I JUST SPENT 1h READING THROUGH EVERYTHING". i thought it was overhyped by this thread. nope, the quality IS that good. wow.
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Russian Federation1849 Posts
The whole thing is amazing
Note: On the page 68 there are youtube links - well, user has deleted the videos. That isn't good.
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I think you guys could do a print version without falling into the trap of the old magazine economies. Print-on-demand is pretty viable now.
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i think the head guy behind this magazine is canadian. Canadian government subsidies can make a print magazine viable when 99% of the time it would fail.
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On April 26 2012 21:52 Emix_Squall wrote:I really don't mean to kill the mood but since I'm working in a PR agency specialized in online games communication (in Europe), I'm quite aware of how medias interact in this sector and I must say I'm doubting a little the viability of such a product. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great idea, the magazine actually looks amazing and so professional, that's exactly the kind of image e-sports need right now in order to broaden it's audience. Nevertheless, I'm really wondering what new content this magazine will bring to the table. I mean e-Sports is something that mostly appeals to computer online-gamers. Most of which (especially in the Starcraft community) spend a lot of time on forums, or different online platforms where they can talk about the game. Why would any of these people buy a magazine that basically says the same thing you can find on pretty much every Starcraft Forums? Moreover,without the possibility of interaction that the internet provides. Even though the product you worked on looks amazing and probably is, I don't know if anyone will feel the need to use it to get this kind of informations. You're basically posting on the platform of your biggest "competitor" ...  Isn't the point of this magazine to appeal to a broader audience?
If someone asks "hey dude wtf is starcraft 2 and all this esports stuff you talk about?" I'd rather show him the magazine instead of teamliquid, because despite how awesome teamliquid is, it is at first glance not an "eye catcher". The magazine, on the other hand, looks amazing and it will definitely get some people interested.
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