Some of us need to put our thinking caps on. Project Creators donating to their own projects is against Kickstarter's rules:
http://unsubject.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/kickstander-follow-up-questions-answers/
It's also clearly against the spirit of Kickstarter. Check out their faq and read the section "Why is funding all or nothing?"
http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics?ref=nav
Project creators donating to their own projects via Kickstarter allows them to adjust the effective project goal whenever however necessary to collect what's been donated. It disintegrates the 'all or nothing' concept. Essentially their pledge drive cannot fail, less the 3 to 5 percent transaction fee of their own donation (to themselves).
As for the project itself, a few things bug me. The sample magazine cover, issue 6, exclusively lists 'news' and 'coming soon' type articles. Those, in print format, are completely obsolete. What's the point of repackaging the same bits of preview coverage and PR paraphrasing that you're already putting on your website in to a monthly compendium? Maybe it was just poor picks for the mock up, but for this to hold any interest to me, it would need a large percentage of completely original retrospective, philosophical (yes, I said it), and otherwise original content. I've bought a couple Gamespites and those are almost completely original content (granted, Jeremy Parish cross posts some articles to the website, but the point is it's not the same info that neogaf and gonintendo are all bubbling to the top of the fold). The other, more minor issue is in the thread here with the pandering 'by fans for fans- so we'll cover more third party stuff' blurb. Seriously, do you really think Nintendo Power TURNED DOWN any opportunities to interview Suda 51, Yuji Hori, or Yuji Naka? The implication that NP wouldn't cover third party stuff because of untoward influence by Nintendo is tacky.
Also, maybe I'm missing something (I didn't scour their website), but it seems weird to be funding a project that's already six issues in, and it seems weird that subscribers don't get instant, digital access to the prior 6 issues.
So yeah I posted here a while back and forgot to check back. I did not realize that we had started such a heated discussion about Kickstarter! I wish I wouldn't have missed it.
Anyways, in reference to the above quotation. What we posted on the Kickstarter from Issue #6 is just a small sampling from about 60 pages of content. There is quite a bit packed into every issue of Pure Nintendo Magazine (PNM). Our content is not just rehashes of what is on the internet or our website. The magazine articles are original ideas, thoughts, opinions, and stories. Honestly, you should wait to provide your 'review' of PNM until you have actually read through a few issues.
As for the availability of prior magazine issues, the first five magazines are available digitally. Those issues can be found here:
http://issuu.com/purenintendo and here:
http://www.scribd.com/purenintendo. The last issue, number six, can be ordered through MagCloud here:
http://www.magcloud.com/user/purenintendo. Issue six will cost you $13.50 for the print & digital editions or just $3.00 for the digital magazine. Even though the fifth issue of PNM is free for it's digital edition, you can purchase issue #5 in print and also get a digital edition for $6.45. They first 4 issues are digital only, sorry guys!
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A small side note we are looking to add some content into the December issue, number eight, straight from our readers! If you have fond memories of Nintendo Power Magazine, then we want to hear them. We will be including these in the December issue! If you want to see your name in PNM in December, then send your favorite Nintendo Power Magazine memories to
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