Friday, November 19, 2010

No, It's Not Playboy

I totally freaked out today when I went to check the mail and found a magazine addressed to me and enclosed in a white plastic bag with no markings on the outside. I have alway heard Playboy magazine and other porno mags come that way. Turns out it was just my first copy of the World of Warcraft Magazine I recently subscribed to. I was relieved it wasn't a girlie magazine, but I was also a bit upset that they had wrapped it. Was I supposed to be embarrassed to be a WoW nerd? But after I read through the issue and looked up some stuff online, I figured out why it was wrapped. These things are worth money. There are only 4 issues a year, they are subscription only and Blizzard only prints as many as they have subscriptions for, they average 175 full color pages, they are completely ad free, they are really beautiful magazines. I missed out on the first 2 issues, my first one is issue #3, so I looked on Ebay to see if I could get the first 2 somehow and was shocked to discover there were only 2 listings and each magazine was selling in the hundreds of dollars. That's why they're wrapped. To keep it protected and prevent it from being stolen. Holy cow, I really wish I had gotten the first two issues.

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