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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 313041" data-attributes="member: 172">Re: Question...Because one size does not fit all. Different people look for different things in a game, and different reviewers may highlight different points, or notice problems (or plusses!) that other reviewers didn't.It's a two step process1) Build up a repuation2) AskI first started writing reviews for RPGnet of things I had purchased and had opinions on (RPGnet pretty much has an &quot;open mike&quot; review policy with &quot;QA&quot; done strictly by heckling and flaming.) Enough people thought enough of my writing and the body of people that follow my reviews that they felt is appropriate to querry me if I would review their product.Eventually, I started posting reviews here, and when I intimated in being interested in being a staff reviewer, Morrus took me up on the offer. Once I got to that point, I felt I had sufficient crendentials to approach the companies that I felt most interested in reviewing.Companies vary wildly on their attitudes regarding review materials. It's a bit easier to get your foot in the door with smaller companies hungry for recognition -- and alas, many of those smaller companies are just the ones you want to avoid if you are on the lookout for higher quality product. However, some can impress. (Frex, though I have not heard a peep from Dark Portal Games in over a year, I am still impressed by their first module I reviewed. I've also been rather impressed with the quality, professionalism, and quirkiness of the stuff from Goodman games.)Lots of the companies looking for recognition are PDF companies, and they are pretty free with review copies because of this and because it gerenally doesn't cost them as much to front you a review copy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 313041, member: 172"] [b]Re: Question...[/b] Because one size does not fit all. Different people look for different things in a game, and different reviewers may highlight different points, or notice problems (or plusses!) that other reviewers didn't. It's a two step process 1) Build up a repuation 2) Ask I first started writing reviews for RPGnet of things I had purchased and had opinions on (RPGnet pretty much has an "open mike" review policy with "QA" done strictly by heckling and flaming.) Enough people thought enough of my writing and the body of people that follow my reviews that they felt is appropriate to querry me if I would review their product. Eventually, I started posting reviews here, and when I intimated in being interested in being a staff reviewer, Morrus took me up on the offer. Once I got to that point, I felt I had sufficient crendentials to approach the companies that I felt most interested in reviewing. Companies vary wildly on their attitudes regarding review materials. It's a bit easier to get your foot in the door with smaller companies hungry for recognition -- and alas, many of those smaller companies are just the ones you want to avoid if you are on the lookout for higher quality product. However, some can impress. (Frex, though I have not heard a peep from Dark Portal Games in over a year, I am still impressed by their first module I reviewed. I've also been rather impressed with the quality, professionalism, and quirkiness of the stuff from Goodman games.) Lots of the companies looking for recognition are PDF companies, and they are pretty free with review copies because of this and because it gerenally doesn't cost them as much to front you a review copy. [/QUOTE]

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