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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Admiral Caine" data-source="post: 4548804" data-attributes="member: 60438">Respectfully, You're not differentiating comments on the review and the reviewer from the actual product itself. You're confusing those two topics. There doesn't seem to be any challenge to idea that the character builder is really quite promising, if not really really good. So far the strongest critique of the application is that it still has some room for improvement. For a project that is not even out of limited beta, that's a really positive reaction. On the other hand, what is being said is that the favorable reaction to the character builder is in spite of the review, not because of it. If you're the reviewer, that's a problem. It communicates that you're not being taken seriously, even if you happen to be correct. This probably doesn't really matter. AICN has a website/blog and they can write anything they want on it. Nobody is forced to read it. It only matters if they expect to be respected and taken as credible. It goes to the old saying that any clock is right at least twice a day. In this case, the clock was right. For a review to have real honest value, the reviewer must be respected and taken seriously. If the reviewer is suspect, then it casts a doubt on anything they review. One can write a glowing review, without the histrionics and melodrama. If you like the style in which it was written, then you probably won't agree with me. For me, it got in the way of what the reviewer was actually trying to get across.</blockquote>

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