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At least with a merger, you still got a decent product. Maverick existed just to burn.
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…refund anything, and hope the odd person would pick up an issue found on the shop shelf before realising they’d been conned. Maybe do one or two “proper” issues before cutting right back, if there was enough of an audience to start with.
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Yeah, their modus operandi was to type the new content directly onto the previous page templates, and often they didn’t have the original files, so there would be missing elements on pages. The aim was always to produce just enough issues for the existing subscriber base so they didn’t have to…
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It removed the link. Bah. https://youtu.be/NPtckNCeZ4Q?si=k82_Hi0JLDVbbAeg
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I also doubt there’d be an expectation to pull, say, a football match if the crowd started chanting death wishes.
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Totally, yes. But equally - “oh no, I’ve accidentally stopped the stream (but not the recording) just as the death chants started … and resumed it when they stopped” could’ve happened.
(I realise there’s far more to it than that.)
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You may enjoy @yesterzine.bsky.social covering an issue of The One post-Emap.
The One Maverick Edition went beyond bad. Spending several promoting an execrable game, suggesting readers bought it at full price. And then mounting the full version on the cover about three months later.
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Of course, the new Observer does credit its writers. Maverick were almost always entirely without bylines, to protect the guilty. And so many of them seemed to be written by the same guy - the style of prose all very sixth-former on work experience.
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I still am. I love how honkingly bad they were, and that they got away with it so many times. There might’ve been another issue after that Sega Zone one as well - given they were all on firm sale, no newsagents would’ve carried them (unless on order), so we can’t know for certain when any ended.
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Perhaps. But it’s hard to argue that they couldn’t have pulled the stream. It’s not as if it wasn’t monitored and running on automation.
The clamour for heads to roll is unnecessary though. A pointless distraction.
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Though in this case, they’re right to. Whatever you think of the sentiment, incitement probably shouldn’t be broadcast.
Equally - the politicians should remember they represent the people - and if the people are saying “stop supporting this regime”, they should stop.
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Is it the one I recommended? It’s developing lots of curious bugs. Cancel uploading a post with an image attached? Don’t worry - that image will be attached to your next post!
Plus Dark Mode isn’t quite working.
Come on, Phoenix.
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That was a great set. Bits of it have been used as filler all day on the Glastonbury channel.
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Eggbox Dickiebird’s egg, eh?
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Well, Mark Heap, obviously.
https://youtu.be/yhgd_3eP6wM?si=3KDIkYRVby7V0sTC
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A reverend?
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Technically.
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Truly, the ultimate exercise in churning out the bare-minimum to avoid having to refund any of the subscribers who they'd acquired with the mag when picking them up from the original publishers. Astonishing that they got away with it (and not just once), though technically, nothing wrong was done.
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And, er, that's it for your £2.50. Eight pages. Three of which are ads. One is the cover. We'll charitably count four pages of editorial, even though they couldn't even be bothered to make the intro to the feature take up a whole page.
Man, I love Maverick Magazines of that vintage.
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And another ad for a Quite Big (but not Quite Good) game that is coming.
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More ads. Doing well, this mag.
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And now there is another page. Of it.
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It continues in much the same way.
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So, this is the big feature. Some critical reviews of some big titles, in brief. Usually find these toward the back of the mag, perhaps they're playing with the format.
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No room for news, probably nothing happening in summer 1994 on Sega platforms. Decent use of space. No room for a flannel panel to name the editorial staff. They didn't seek glory. A big logo representing the feature, and a slightly smaller one reminding readers that this mag is Sega Zone is enough.
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Bit of advertising on page 2. Makes sense. Prime spot.
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Some big games hinted at here. And maybe some posters. Get the punters in.
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