Re: Re: Gamedevlists-design digest, Vol 1 #38 - 10 msgs

>Can you recall which reviewers gave the lazy reviews? 

There's no way you can really cull the bad reviewers out.  There are 
many reasons for this:

- the biases of individual reviewers often change

- if they find out they've been blacklisted, they'll often publicly 
accuse the developer or publisher of knowing that they'll give an 
"honest" review and thus this is obviously favoritism

- often review copies are handed out by publishers without the 
knowledge or consent of the developer

- review copies are often given to a magazine or a publisher or a Web 
site, without knowing ahead of time which individual reviewer will 
receive a copy

The fact of the matter is that the popularity of the Web has allowed 
any idiot that knows FrontPage to throw up a Web site and have an 
opinion that someone will listen to.  Such is life, you just have to 
hope that there are more level-headed, intelligent reviewers out 
there than dishonest, lazy and disinterested ones.

Brian




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