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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6345966" data-attributes="member: 18">Not commenting on reviews of 5E, but that's certainly not true on contentious products - you often get organised or semi-organised groups of people posting negative reviews on products they don't actually own (or in some cases know anything about) in order to cause problems for a disliked company or product. EA has been the victim of this plenty of times, for example. You also get the opposite where the contention is between fans (the Gears of War games, for example, have seen some good review/bad review wars).I would categorize D&amp;D products as contentious, myself. I know I've seen obscure 4E products, for example, which had &quot;reviews&quot; (I use the term advisedly) that basically said &quot;4E SUX DON'T BUY IT&quot; on them - when there's no way you'd even be buying the product unless you already played 4E!Sometimes Amazon removes this stuff, sometimes they don't.On non-contentious products, like, y'know, stuff nerds don't get into wars about, it's much more true. Even then you have a degree of astroturfing and the like, though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 6345966, member: 18"] Not commenting on reviews of 5E, but that's certainly not true on contentious products - you often get organised or semi-organised groups of people posting negative reviews on products they don't actually own (or in some cases know anything about) in order to cause problems for a disliked company or product. EA has been the victim of this plenty of times, for example. You also get the opposite where the contention is between fans (the Gears of War games, for example, have seen some good review/bad review wars). I would categorize D&D products as contentious, myself. I know I've seen obscure 4E products, for example, which had "reviews" (I use the term advisedly) that basically said "4E SUX DON'T BUY IT" on them - when there's no way you'd even be buying the product unless you already played 4E! Sometimes Amazon removes this stuff, sometimes they don't. On non-contentious products, like, y'know, stuff nerds don't get into wars about, it's much more true. Even then you have a degree of astroturfing and the like, though. [/QUOTE]

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