Electronic Gaming Monthly, or EGM for short, ceased publication a few months back.  But what about the remaining months left on the subscriptions of all the paying customers?

If you were in charge of how to handle this, would you:

A. Give subscribers a pro-rated refund

B.  Apply the balance to a gaming website which charges a monthly fee

C.  Switch the customer’s subscription to a similar gaming magazine

D.  Send everyone Maxim!

Yes, EGM subscribers began to receive Maxim magazines in the mail as a “replacement” for the EGM magazine they were no longer getting.  This isn’t a joke or some clever fakepost.  I think this is the first website that mentioned it, but there are plenty more and a search for “EGM Maxim” will keep the party going.  I was going to write a long post about the idiocy of the whole thing.  But I think other websites have already adequately covered the reasons why this is so asinine, such as: Maxim only does a couple of pages of really short game reviews and they suck, getting a Maxim out of nowhere can get kids in trouble with parents or boyfriends with girlfriends (etc.), it’s obvious that zero consideration was given to the many female subscribers or any gay male subscribers.  And just in general, it makes so little sense.

But hey, I just want to say that no matter what anyone says about Maxim, there is one thing you can truly count on…reviews with the highest ethical and journalistic standards.  Oh, unless they’re pressed for time.  Then they just write a clever sounding review and give it a random amount of stars without even listening to the CD they’re reviewing.  (”Humor” after the jump!)

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