Hey all,
Does anyone know what’s happened to the Unity magazine? I placed my order for it about three months ago, and haven’t seen a single issue… What’s worse, I will be moving home in a weeks time, and I’m not sure how to go about updating the guys handling the subscriptions so they can redirect it…
If anyone knows why I might not have received any copies of the magazine, I’d love to hear about it.
Thanks,
Lee
I think best is to PM Charles Hinshaw directly.
I haven’t had my magazine either.
I have emailed subscriptions@unitydevelopment.com but haven’t had a reply.
I paid about 3 months ago too.
Who is Charles Hinshaw by the way?
It’s coming up on a year since the last issue was published, and not much hope of ever seeing another issue. Charles (the magazine’s publisher) is now an employee of UT. :roll:
I’ve also paid and gotten only one magazine.
I was really wishing Charles well for the magazine and am terribly sorry to see it not happening.
Legally, subscribers are entitled to a refund on the balance of their undelivered subscriptions, and in fact, magazine publishers are required to maintain a cash reserve equal to the outstanding subscription money in order to issue refunds.
Will that happen? Or did we just donate to the cause?
I’m pissed, been 6 months and nothing. 3 months since they promised to mail me the first 2 issues at least. Is this magazine affiliated with Unity, because for me it’s a real black eye!
Perhaps its that actual physical publishing side of things thats getting in the way?
I’d buy it if it was in a digital format… much cheaper for them to produce and get out the door too.
Ugh, just went through and looked up my login etc again - it appears they are still taking subscriptions which is, in my opinion, basically fraudulent.
Unity 3D is great, lots of help and such on this website overall I have no complaints. But this magazine business is really getting under my skin.
Contact Charles for a refund. I did, and got my refund soon after.
The magazine is not a Unity Technologies project, but Charles’ own. He was later hired at Unity, but its still his personal project afaik
/T
I just saw this thread –
Lazarus404 and I spoke through PM and I think that everything got sorted there.
stuntpea – I just did a search for the email that you have in your profile here. I’ll email that to get in touch, but that doesn’t turn up when I search my database or any inbox.
Horsman – I see your subscription and will email you shortly.
quentinp – We’ve talked via email. I’ve sent magazines to your address several times, and just emailed you today with an update.
Hey Charles, news about #3 then too?
Hi, i subscribed for the magazine as well recently and it’s by chance that i saw this thread. Is the magazine not being published anymore?
The magazine is still ongoing, and in fact after PM’ing Charles last night, I have subscribed for 6 issues (the current 3) and the next three.
Yes Charles emailed me and explained he was out of town, basically a postage mix up on the back issues. So I am hopeful again at this point. Hope I get them soon, my Unity development has been de-railed by a combination of Champions Online and Zbrush 3.5, so I need something to reel me back in 
Any way to get the first 2 issues as well?
Well, I asked and Charles said he will adjust the subscription to start from issue 1
/fanboy squeeeee
[edit] small addendum here, does everyone get there subscription adjusted or how this going to work?
I didn’t do a default edit to accounts and ship 1 and 2 for everyone because I don’t know who already has a copy of 1 and 2 (through conferences, etc. I can see if they ordered it). In general, my policy has been that if someone says “I just saw that this subscription starts with X, I meant for it to start with X-n”, I’ll adjust their subscription and manually process the back issues. Email or PM me for that.