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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 2812664" data-attributes="member: 3400">I'd agree that iterative playtesting is best, but we don't have enough information to guess if they're doing it or not. For an RPG adventure, I think it would make sense to do iterative play testing with different groups rather than multiple rounds with the same group. Playtesting board and card games, and source material for RPGs would be more suitable for multiple rounds with the same participants.That said, not getting a response from the publisher may or may not be bad depending on how long it has taken to get a response, whether the product is a high-priority release vs low priority, how available the author is to the person receiving the playtester response, and so on. Whether this is all bad or not as far as the quality of the product goes, it is at least impolite to leave a play tester hanging without even a &quot;Thanks for bringing it to our attention. We're looking into this.&quot; response even if a complete response is longer in coming.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 2812664, member: 3400"] I'd agree that iterative playtesting is best, but we don't have enough information to guess if they're doing it or not. For an RPG adventure, I think it would make sense to do iterative play testing with different groups rather than multiple rounds with the same group. Playtesting board and card games, and source material for RPGs would be more suitable for multiple rounds with the same participants. That said, not getting a response from the publisher may or may not be bad depending on how long it has taken to get a response, whether the product is a high-priority release vs low priority, how available the author is to the person receiving the playtester response, and so on. Whether this is all bad or not as far as the quality of the product goes, it is at least impolite to leave a play tester hanging without even a "Thanks for bringing it to our attention. We're looking into this." response even if a complete response is longer in coming. [/QUOTE]

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