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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 123322" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>I recently received an email from a publisher complaining that one of the EN World staff reviewers didn't give them good enough reviews. That publisher compared themselves directly to a specific, "obviously inferior" product line produced by a rival publisher (whom they claimed that the reviewer favoured) and made thinly veiled threats regarding "revisions" to their review policy.</p><p></p><p>I won't go into the whys and wherefores regarding what I think of this. I'm sure you can guess. Personally, I choose not to review or overly promote any products from that company again except as far as my "news reporting" role requires me to; I leave it up to the reviewer in question as to whether he wishes to. </p><p></p><p>As for the veiled threats - I'm sorry, but they're no threat at all. I know that I, and the staff reviewers here, have more d20 products than we could ever use, and are only personally interested in a tiny percentage of them (that does not mean that only a tiny percentage are good); if we really want a product, we can buy it. The concept of "free product for good reviews" <em>really</em> bothers me. If it's a major release, and requires coverage, then I'll even buy it for the staff reviewers myself. </p><p></p><p>For the majority of print publishers, a review here doesn't exactly make or break the company in question. A publisher is not going to go under because Alan or Simon gave a product a '3' instead of a '4'. </p><p></p><p>There, that's off my chest. There are a lot of great publishers out there who take the bad (or, more often than not, merely average) reviews in stride; that, in my opinion, is the professional way of acting. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 123322, member: 1"] I recently received an email from a publisher complaining that one of the EN World staff reviewers didn't give them good enough reviews. That publisher compared themselves directly to a specific, "obviously inferior" product line produced by a rival publisher (whom they claimed that the reviewer favoured) and made thinly veiled threats regarding "revisions" to their review policy. I won't go into the whys and wherefores regarding what I think of this. I'm sure you can guess. Personally, I choose not to review or overly promote any products from that company again except as far as my "news reporting" role requires me to; I leave it up to the reviewer in question as to whether he wishes to. As for the veiled threats - I'm sorry, but they're no threat at all. I know that I, and the staff reviewers here, have more d20 products than we could ever use, and are only personally interested in a tiny percentage of them (that does not mean that only a tiny percentage are good); if we really want a product, we can buy it. The concept of "free product for good reviews" [i]really[/i] bothers me. If it's a major release, and requires coverage, then I'll even buy it for the staff reviewers myself. For the majority of print publishers, a review here doesn't exactly make or break the company in question. A publisher is not going to go under because Alan or Simon gave a product a '3' instead of a '4'. There, that's off my chest. There are a lot of great publishers out there who take the bad (or, more often than not, merely average) reviews in stride; that, in my opinion, is the professional way of acting. :) [/QUOTE]
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