SJG is putting the kibosh on Pyramid Magazine towards the end of the year. Sad news.

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=158711

Per Steven Marsh:

"As recently announced, we are focusing on our core games and adapting our operations to better fit today's shifting market. As part of the change in our schedule, we are closing down Pyramid magazine later this year. The December 2018 issue will be the final issue of the magazine, and effective immediately, we are no longer accepting subscriptions.

Existing subscribers, in January 2019, will be given the choice of a refund (delivered by check) for unfulfilled issues or, if they wish, two times the refund value in Warehouse 23 credit. Each subscriber will receive an email late this year with instructions on how to claim their refund or store credit.

Closing down Pyramid will give our team more time to spend on the GURPS game, producing more PDFs and bringing more out-of-print GURPS books back to print through the GURPS On Demand program. Additionally, this will give the team time to explore the thousands of Pyramid articles that we have published since 1993 and select the best works that are worthy of compilation, expansion, and update to the GURPS 4th edition rules.

Thank you for years of support. We will miss Pyramid, but there's nothing stopping us from bringing the magazine back when the market changes again. Steve Jackson Games has been here for decades, and we will continue to do what we need to do to publish games for many years to come."

Let me guess, they'll bring it back with a Kickstarter...

I haven't paid attention to Pyramid (or anything SJ Games for that matter) for years, but I have fond memories of reading it back in the late 90s when Ken Hite's "Suppressed Transmission" was a regular column.  I never played GURPS, but that column alone was worth the subscription price!

Quote from: JeremyR;1050486Let me guess, they'll bring it back with a Kickstarter...

That's how the market works right now.

Quote from: nightlamp;1050489I haven't paid attention to Pyramid (or anything SJ Games for that matter) for years, but I have fond memories of reading it back in the late 90s when Ken Hite's "Suppressed Transmission" was a regular column.  I never played GURPS, but that column alone was worth the subscription price!

You're not wrong, Suppressed Transmissions were/are an absolute goldmine. Aside from Pyramid's staple GURPS content and exploration of odd ideas or interesting rules alternatives (which as a GURPS GM I use pretty commonly), I'm also going to miss the Murphy's Rules strips.

I'm glad SJG are willing to amputate dying limbs, but I'm also wondering about how smaller writers are going to be able to get into writing GURPS content going forward (as well as whether or not there will be any place for smaller/stranger articles or pieces of content in general, outside of blogs and etc.). Seems like unless they are willing to go OGL or at least be much more permissive and flexible with regards to 3rd party authors and licensing, this may kind of stunt the growth/evolution as well as the longevity of the game itself, which is seemingly on pretty tenuous ground already.

Quote"As recently announced, we are focusing on our core games and adapting our operations to better fit today's shifting market. As part of the change in our schedule, we are closing down (insert product discontinued here)

They say this same thing about every time. Was the same line they used for other close downs.

WTF is a SJG?
social justice grognard?

Quote from: remial;1050684WTF is a SJG?
social justice grognard?

Steve Jackson Games.

Quote from: remial;1050684WTF is a SJG?
social justice grognard?

Quote from: Thornhammer;1050690Steve Jackson Games.

They unknowingly dodged a bullet by not making it Steve Jackson Wargames.

Surprised it lasted this long.

Quote from: remial;1050684WTF is a SJG?
social justice grognard?

Sues Just Gamers.

I had no idea Pyramid still existed! I haven't seen an issue in ages.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1050728I had no idea Pyramid still existed! I haven't seen an issue in ages.

That's because it's digital, there hasn't been a physical issue to spot in 20 years.

Quote from: Antiquation!;1050448SJG is putting the kibosh on Pyramid Magazine towards the end of the year. Sad news.

You actually were reading it?

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;1050768You actually were reading it?

Yep. I've read and I own every one of the 3-series Pyramids (and still use and refer to between two and three dozen of them regularly, with others still used but more sparingly and situationally) and have read many of the 2-series. Since #3/100 or so they haven't been much use to me though. Even then, I still found most of the articles within interesting to read if not necessarily to use.

For me, they have produced some interesting and useful material over the years. It's pretty clearly not a very sustainable model from a business standpoint and I'm surprised it's gone on even this long considering it has basically zero visibility outside of the GURPS player spectrum, but its shutdown is still bittersweet from my perspective.

I fully recognize that I'm in a pretty niche group here.