Today I put my MaximumPC subscription renewal card in the mail. It's the only traditional print magazine I subscribe to, discounting a quarterly mag that comes gratis with membership in a military advocacy organization I belong to. I thought long and hard before committing to another year of MaximumPC, as I have for the past several years. As in the recent past I resubscribed not so much for its contents but to have something I can curl up in bed with, something I can drop on the floor or roll over on, or forget at a restaurant with no harm done, something that doesn't involve staring at a screen. Besides, a year of MaximumPC is dirt cheap.

Years ago I subscribed to a ton of 'em:

• Six or more magazines devoted to classical music recording reviews.
• Tuba Journal back when I was a performing low brass player.
• Model Railroader Magazine.
• An aquarium magazine.
• An archaeology magazine.
• Two magazines on the American Civil War.
• Military History Magazine.
• At least five magazines devoted to audio gear, two of them audiophile.
• One magazine devoted to video gear.
• All the major PC magazines: Byte, PC Magazine, PC World, Compute, Computer Shopper, etc.
• Two magazines devoted to PC gaming.
• Back in the dark ages, before PCs and consoles became the established gaming norm, I subscribed to a magazine dedicated to board games, which included a decent quality game per issue.
• One general purpose video gaming magazine - Game Informer.
• Popular Photography and maybe one other such magazine.
• During the mid 1980s, for two years I subscribed to the three standard "car" magazines of the day while deciding which vehicle to buy. (I ended up with a 1986 Honda CRX-SI, which remains my all-time favorite car.)
• Consumer Reports.
• Likely a magazine or two or three I no longer recall.

A combination of needing to cut expenses and online availability of much of the info they contained saw them fall by the wayside. Additionally, a number number of classical music review, audio, and PC magazines folded.

I still buy single issues of Model Railroader Magazine once in a great while, and used to pick up the odd issue of American Record Guide (a classical music record review mag) back when one of our local bookstores still stocked it.

Anyone else still getting traditional magazines in the mail? (I suppose online subscriptions count, so long as they are mirrored by a traditional paper equivalent.)

When I was a kid I subscribed to Nintendo Power for a year or two. Nothing anymore.

I used to Subscribe to Game Informer in the early 2000s..

these days? naah, I don't subscribe to anything..

I still get The Family Handyman every month many years after I last paid them and have no idea why.

Other than that, none.

My last subscription was PC Gamer back in 2002.

By the way I subscribed to Model Railroader Magazine too, when I was a kid. It was my first-ever magazine subscription. I felt like an advlt when I took that first issue - with my name on it! - out of the mailbox.

A handful. I still subscribe to Q (monthly music mag) and Amateur Photographer (weekly) and a couple of others. I always seem to end up with a backlog.

Local newspaper and Game Informer.

i don't subscribe, but i regularly buy.

a local weekly news mag and a twice-a-month computer mag, come whatever.

another weekly news mag, a monthly gaming mag and a monthly local culture mag if my freelancer's funds allow.

and several special interest mags depending on contents or for recherche purposes.

i do see one problem with print mags though: for a majority of them, quality has gone downhill over the past, say, 25 years. worse recherche, worse writing, less text, more pics, more ads (or, even worse, "sponsored content" or whatever they call that type)

that i can have from the web just as well.

I use to buy magazines semi-regulary but to help my brother-in-law I ended up subscribing to a monthly magazine.

I revised my list of once-subscribed-to magazines to include several I had not initially recalled, including Game Informer.

Yeah, PC Gamer is the subscription I most recently let expire. Not sure exactly when that was. The only copy i hung on to (by happenstance rather than choice) dates from 2008 and contains a review of "Spore". I believe I continued to subscribe some years beyond that. For the longest time I preferred Computer Gaming World, but saw the writing on the wall with the announcement that it would become Games for Windows: The Official Magazine. Boy was I right! Games for Windows stunk and died a rapid death.

This reminds me that I subscribed to Popular Photography and maybe another such magazine for some years.

All too true. Sad but largely inevitable. For some odd reason I still hang on to a few old issues of Computer Shopper back when that mag bordered 1k pages and was the pre internet equivalent of NewEgg and the PC section of Amazon rolled in to one. One could find any and everything there. I bought my first two computers through Computer Shopper, back before I began assembling my own. Good articles too.

Last magazine subscription I had ended a few months ago. National Geographic. It was a digital subscription, but a subscription nonetheless.

I think next time I do subscribe, it'll be a physical copy, rather than digital. I just prefer it that way.

oh boy... what'd it say? this (spore) definitely was the profoundest disappointment i ever experienced from a game. what an infamy to be unleashed on gamers

Sister got me a 1-year sub to Natural Geographic for Christmas.

My grandfather gave my father a lifetime subscription to NG. I told him years later how I as a kid, I would carefully remove the cover and read them before he got home from work. He said that at least somebody was, because he would only ever look at them when something on the cover interested him. That didn't happen very often.

I pretty much quit subscribing to magazines when I realized that I was subscribing to advertisemants with an occasional article thrown in.

I think my mum's still got the subscription to Popshot (poetry/short fiction & illustration magazine) that I part paid for, but I hardly ever get round to reading it even though it's great.

I keep meaning to subscribe to a film magazine called Little White Lies, too, but I'll have to settle for only remembering to pick it up whenever I've got a long train journey coming up...

I probably haven't bought a physical magazine or newspaper in eight years, let alone subscribed to one.

Or if it was a gaming magazine, it's all advertisemants. That's why I unsubbed to them.

I get Nat Geo because I love the photography. Those people are world class.

Big Jugs. It's a specialty magazine for milk cow farmers.

I'm afraid you are due for disappointment. Spore was that issues' feature article. Its review takes up eight pages. It graces the issue's cover. They gave it 91%, and an Editors' Choice award. The brief "Final Verdict" section has this to say:

Me, I never bothered to buy the game so have no direct experience with it. I do find it an enjoyable game to watch being played at YouTube, given a commentator who does it justice, some of its 'stages' far more so than others.

Last time I subscribed to a magazine was back in 1998 or 1999, and it wasn't the best experience either. I subscribed for a year, and they went out of business after 3 months

Since then I just bought magazines in the store.

I subscribed to White Dwarf magazine back when it was a bi-monthly independent rpg magazine. 1980 or thereabouts. I was such a geek at 14. Since then, um no. I probably took a vow of illiteracy. I remember cutting out and staging a bar room brawl with D&D rules in the public room of Harry Ramsden's chip shop once.

Never subscribed to anything but theres been a few I faithfully bought every issue of for years

Strategy and Tactics

Wyrm's Footnotes

Tales of the Reaching Moon

White Dwarf

Journal of the Travellers Aid Society

New Statesman and Society

None any more though.

We get a trade magazine for dog breeders, ..aaaand that's it.