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Thumbing through this month's OXM, it seemed like there was more advertisements than magazine, so I decided to do a bit of counting.

Out of 129 total pages, a whopping 81 were were ads!
Not sure if this is more than usual, but it sure seems like a lot to me.

Check out their Rate Card and do the math...that's an assload of money.
 
Good thing I get it for free (though, regrettably, sans demo disc).

I've read zines with greater than 48 pages on monthly content, typically put together by one person with ADHD. OTOH, 48 pages is what the entire OXM staff can muster?
 
I don't normally read OXM, but I picked up this months for some reason...and I did think to myself, "I just flipped through about 8 pages of ads in between articles!"

That is crazy! Also, on a side note, I hate those ads that look like articles but aren't (like the King Kong one). I can tell the difference, but they bother me because the might fool the less savy.
 
[quote name='Altered Beast Returns']
I can tell the difference, but they bother me because the might fool the less savy.[/QUOTE]

Why worry about the less savy?
 
Reading the thread title, I thought there would be an ad for CAG in the mag and I thought, "Crap, here come the noobs." Good thing I was wrong. :)
 
[quote name='PenguinMaster']Why worry about the less savy?[/QUOTE]

To me, it is a sign of things going in a bad direction. A magazine can decide what ads they will allow to run. It's just what I consider "lame" advertising. Like when EGM has those fake covers glued to the front, as if their cover story was how good Big Mutha Truckers 2 is. Next, we will have advertisments inserted amongs the reviews.

CheapyD, would you happen to know how much one of those fake EGM covers costs?
 
Yea I never liked OXM for that reason.

The only magazine I have read with more ads is the free FHM magazine i get. It is like 3 pages of stuff and 200 pages of ads in one form or another.
 
[quote name='musha666']Yea I never liked OXM for that reason.

The only magazine I have read with more ads is the free FHM magazine i get. It is like 3 pages of stuff and 200 pages of ads in one form or another.[/QUOTE]

Stuff and MAxim are both guilty of the same crime. Not to mention, a large portion of their articles are basically editorial advertisements. THe fashion section full of expensive clothing on models. The 147 things you have to buy for christmas (because, no Jews ever read the magazine), or else you lose your manhood. Etc, etc, etc.
 
holy flurking shnit that's a lot of ads.

People still read print magazine? Let alone OXM?
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ya have to wonder how much longer people will pay $5-10 for month old info.
 
[quote name='Apossum']ya have to wonder how much longer people will pay $5-10 for month old info.[/QUOTE]

The only reason to pay for OXM is the demos (which still aren't usually worth it). Everyone else gets it for free. :lol:
 
The volume of ads is pretty rediculous. I noticed it immediately- especially towards the back of the magazine where there are several consecutive pages of advertisements. Is it just me or are their reviews getting shorter too?
 
I don't know if this matters to anyone, but in the latest FHM Magazine, 25 of the first 29 pages are ads. Maybe 26.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']The only reason to pay for OXM is the demos (which still aren't usually worth it). Everyone else gets it for free. :lol:[/QUOTE]


I bought it for the demos but, thanks to this site, I have enough full games to play so I almost never touch the disk.

That and the abundance of ads is why I am letting my subscription expire.
 
Game Informer is still my favorite game mag. i just think it's got so much more content, and unlike EGM, it officially reviews all games, instead of putting them in the back section of games they didn't get to.
 
[quote name='pimp tyranny']Game Informer is still my favorite game mag. i just think it's got so much more content, and unlike EGM, it officially reviews all games, instead of putting them in the back section of games they didn't get to.[/QUOTE]

I like GI too, but it's also guilty of what you accuse EGM of doing. They just have it at the end of their review section and are called Quickies. One reader even wrote in giving a review about that section, where he said something like "The Quickie reviews are useless. They don't tell me anything about the game. I don't like the Quickies."
 
[quote name='whitereflection']I like GI too, but it's also guilty of what you accuse EGM of doing. They just have it at the end of their review section and are called Quickies. One reader even wrote in giving a review about that section, where he said something like "The Quickie reviews are useless. They don't tell me anything about the game. I don't like the Quickies."[/QUOTE]
Some of the IGN channels are guilty of this as well, especially the film section. Often a news story will pop up, you'll click on it, and it reads like an advertisement.
 
[quote name='capitalist_mao']I don't know if this matters to anyone, but in the latest FHM Magazine, 25 of the first 29 pages are ads. Maybe 26.[/QUOTE]

Let me guess: those 4 non-ad pages are the ToC and the credits. :lol:
 
[quote name='whitereflection']I like GI too, but it's also guilty of what you accuse EGM of doing. They just have it at the end of their review section and are called Quickies. One reader even wrote in giving a review about that section, where he said something like "The Quickie reviews are useless. They don't tell me anything about the game. I don't like the Quickies."[/QUOTE]

In some cases it made sense, like Ninja Gaiden Black. Unless they broke the game in the remake somehow, it was good that they summed up some of the new features, and confirmed that it is still a solid game.
 
Yea I was bored at work and bought this pile of game ads. At least the demo disk and the 360 stuff was kinda worth something (not the $10 I wasted tho)
 
[quote name='musha666']Yea I never liked OXM for that reason.

The only magazine I have read with more ads is the free FHM magazine i get. It is like 3 pages of stuff and 200 pages of ads in one form or another.[/QUOTE]
Today while walking back to my house from the mail box I tried twice to thumb through the pages to see the Victoria Silvsted pictorial but the only thing I saw where all of the "hard page" ads, and a billion of those FHM $9.99 FOR A YEAR index cards.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']Let me guess: those 4 non-ad pages are the ToC and the credits. :lol:[/QUOTE]

2 pages of TOC. 3 half pages of credits. FHM and Stuff are terrible in that about 75% of their magazine is advertising in way or another (whether it's paid advertising, or a paragraph about how pimp a $10k watch is). 20% is devoted to Women in lingerie (which is boring, since thye all start looking the same). The rest is fart jokes and frat humor (Funny how frat is an anagram of fart).
 
I saw this in the Google ads:

http://www.ablastfromthepastandmore.com/

Welcome, to A Blast from the Past and More. We specialize in vintage tools and magazine advertisments. With over 1500 ads currently in stock you are bound to find something you like. All our ads are 100% original and were published between the pre 1900s to the 1970s, covering a wide range of topics.

So who knows, maybe if you keep these magazines around for 30-40 years, you'll make some cash. :lol:
 
I remember when I got Rolling Stone (decent) and ESPN the mag (very bad) that they both started off with about 20+ pages of ads with some of those annoying cologne ads. Unless these types of mags can be had for about a buck or two or less for each issue in the subscription, they're not really worth it.
 
I thought most magazines used a fixed ratio of adds to content, so that more adds meant more pages of content. I remember EGM back in the day used to have some 300+ page monster issues around the holidays.
 
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