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3 years ago ::
Oct 22, 2009 - 2:53PM
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Date Joined:
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If you currently receive the Magic newsletter, we want to hear from you! If you can take a minute and post answers to the following questions in this thread, it would be a huge help to us and make a better newsletter for you. What do you like most about the newsletter?
What do you like least about the newsletter?
What would like to see in the newsletter?
How often would you like to receive the newsletter?
What websites do you read on a regular basis that you think other people would enjoy? Here is the list of the newsletters we've sent out for review. June
July
August
September
October Vol 1
October Vol 2
October Vol 3 (coming soon)
Eric Sorensen
Wizards of the Coast
Organized Play
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3 years ago ::
Oct 22, 2009 - 3:08PM
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Date Joined:
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There's no "news" in the newsletter, just a bunch of links to other places. When I get emails that are just a bunch of links to other places, I delete them. It's really only one step up from spam, if you ask me...
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3 years ago ::
Oct 23, 2009 - 10:50PM
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1. & 2. No answer. 3. I would like to see hints at future sets, maybe with each email a piece of a puzzle, and players have to print the pages to complete it. Like pieces of a map. Of Zendikar. Cause, you know...Allies...adventures and teamwork and stuff. 4. about once every other week. 5. MTGSalvation
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3 years ago ::
Oct 29, 2009 - 3:43PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2009
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last month's newsletter was pretty good becuase you had the article in there from the new york post? (i know it wasn't the times...new york something). it's great to read about mtg going on in other places. i do think that you could put a little more content in the newsletters--such as one or two sentences about the different posts. i would also include MORE of the posts. i don't typically read wizards-released columns because there's so much content being written all over the web; however, i do enjoy reading articles from the mothership. it just needs to be more convienent to access. having a two sentence intro of each of the month's columns would help with that. i also think you could spotlight "lesser known" blogs, like mtgrealm, ccgtradepost, power9pro, and gathering magic. there's more than just the "starkington post" out there. cheers.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 29, 2009 - 3:46PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2009
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...and i just looked closer at this month's newsletter and see mtgrealm there. :p still, more content and more of a whollistic view of what's been happening in the entire mtg-world would be better.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 29, 2009 - 4:50PM
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Just the same points everyone else has said, there just isn't much to it. The article in the NY paper was nice.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 29, 2009 - 7:52PM
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Date Joined:
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There's no "news" in the newsletter, just a bunch of links to other places. When I get emails that are just a bunch of links to other places, I delete them. It's really only one step up from spam, if you ask me...
+1 The newsletter is the absolute definition of useless. I have no idea what I would put in a MTG newsletter, but you might want to start by using actual words and all. I'm not trying to be rude, I just don't know what else to say. Frequency: Once a month? Maybe mention the new releases for the month, with an emphasis on small sets (I totally overlooked the FTV-E release because I forgot about it). Just general information like that. Tournament coverage is irrelevant to me, but I wouldn't care if it was there.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 30, 2009 - 7:51AM
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 I would have to say that although there is no content provided in the newsletters, I do appreciate the 'Posts from the Planes' (news and views from the Magic Community). This is mainly because I am not always on top of the latest community artilces and have read some great articles that I may have missed otherwise.
Also - I'm happy that a link to my Blog just was mentioned - - yeah (!) officially acknowledged content ! This, of course, does not bias any view I have of the newsletter.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 31, 2009 - 7:44PM
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What do you like most about the newsletter? I like the newsletter to be a summary overview of stuff from WotC that I may not follow daily. What do you like least about the newsletter? The frequency it has shown up in October. The newsletter was great specifically because it wasn't frequent, so it focused on highlights more. What would like to see in the newsletter? Summary of Daily MtG over the entire month. How often would you like to receive the newsletter? Once per month or once per quarter. What websites do you read on a regular basis that you think other people would enjoy? slashdot.org
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2 years ago ::
Jan 11, 2010 - 7:26PM
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- BCP5 Development Lead
- The Gathering Storm
- Never one to hesitate
- Desecration
Date Joined:
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The best thing about the newsletter is pretty much the only thing it has - a useful set of links from sites that I can't or don't read regularly that tell me what the good articles are and a short blurb to see if I want to read them.
The thing I like the least about the newsletter is that it is mostly devoid or severely lacking of actual "new" news. It recycles articles and such for the views of the present or recent past.
I'd like to see some "Upcoming in Magic" section for the newsletter straight from WotC. That way, it's not just a compilation of links you may not have any interest in, but could provide details for upcoming online or site events, prerelease information, maybe teasers or even previews for product that is to come. Basically, a reason to look forward to the newsletter other than to see what you might've missed in the past month or so of reading about Magic.
How often would I like to see the newsletter....Well, it really depends on how the revised content would look. If its current implementation of "Here's a bunch of well-written, good articles you may have missed from around the multiverse" still persists, I'd say biweekly, to give it a better feeling of recent-ness, and not "Oh, by the way, this happened three weeks ago!" If it offers news along with a few article links, then monthly would suffice.
Unfortunately, I seldom read websites on a regular basis. Instead, I follow a bunch of friends and news-related people on Twitter and rely on them to spit articles at me until I find one with a title that interests me.
Edit - unintentional necro - this is stickied still?
Magic Volunteer Community Lead
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