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You have to set the standards high, nobody's waiting for a word-exported-pdf file.
Good grief—they're not seriously suggesting producing the thing in Word, are they?
I think you're right, though—if everyone jumps on this band-wagon, it'll dilute the concept, unless every one of the tributes is done to a similar standard to the Zzap! ones. I think people forget that with 107 we had Gazunta (a journalist) organising the thing, Gordon (an ex-Zzap! editor and long-time writer/author) editing, myself (an artist/designer with a decade of experience and a writer with six years of professional experience) designing and sub-editing, hence why it had that professional sheen. And the DEF Tribute had you, Rob, who clearly knows what he's doing design-wise (although I've no idea if you're a professional designer or not) and myself doing some editing and rewriting.
I also doubt that too many fan-mags of this type will be picked up. This may become more likely if someone says to a mag like Retro Gamer "hey, we're nearly done" and flings them an almost-complete PDF (that also happens to look shit-hot and read well), but otherwise no.
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(the same guy who used to heavily criticise RG on their own forums then got upset when the staff hit back at him).
Hmmm... very "professional". Mind you, I got slagged off on that forum a while back by one of the RG team members, despite never even posting there, so that was nice.
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So is Issue 108 going ahead now?
Frankly, it's not terribly likely, but you never know (and Rob's DEF Tribute did spark something in me)—"never" is a long time, as the saying goes.