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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wandering Bard" data-source="post: 132595" data-attributes="member: 249">Wow!  I just found this thread (I've not been able to keep up to date on the boards...too busy).  This is very interesting.First off, Bard's Productions is not the company in question.  However, I can understand how someone would get upset about poor reviews.  In September-December when we were releasing the Race for Retribution PDFs, we sent 4 emails over a month's time to Psion offering him copies to review.  We did not receive a reply to any of the emails.  I assumed he was busy, or didn't do PDF reviews, or something like that, but a reply to state that would have been nice.  So we contacted Simon Collins.  Part I we got a 3, Part II a 2, Part IV and V were both 4's.Needless to say, as the author, I was highly disappointed at the 2.  I sent a private email to Simon for more explanation to some of his comments and received some interesting feedback which has proven very good.  However, the problem is how certain comments were made in the review, such as the 3 way fight being done better in other products.  When I asked for examples our email conversation (to learn on how to improve our product) he was unable to provide any solid ones (Simon guessed at one product but it turned out it didn't have a 3 way fight...I bought it to read through and learn from).  Simon also made a comment that he could draw better artwork than what was present in the PDF.  I'll be the first to admit that some of our artwork was bad in the PDFs.  We have been doing some serious updating on Layout, Maps as well as artwork.  It should be noted that some publishers may have taken Simon's comment as an offer to re-do the artwork (i.e. put your money where your mouth is).  Again, he made his point which was accurate on some of the artwork, but how it was made is questionable.Now, in Simon's defense, these were some of his early reviews and so, he was still probably trying to define his style and polish it a bit.  Alan, clearly is a solid reviewer, but as stated earlier, we never received ANY reply to the emails we sent (as our initial email to Simon indicated).  Again, these are not major points and probably have been cleared up since our efforts in Sept - Dec.  All in all, our email conversation with Simon was very informative and I appreciate his time with that.We are going to be printing out some new products, Common Ground I (Churches, Inns and Merchants) as well as a completely updated Race for Retribution series.  That's right...print...not PDF.  We will be sending Simon and Alan copies of these products for them to review.  Obviously we hope for 5's, but we also know there will be things that can be improved.  There's nothing wrong with criticism, as long as it is constructive and more details concerning it can be given, to publishers who wish to learn from these observations.Both Simon and Alan have done a solid (4 out of 5... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ) job on reviews, even if on occasion I don't agree with their opinions or observations or weighing of certain factors (concerning other publishers material...not BP's).  Keep up the good work and I'll be sending you guys emails on the printed product in a few weeks.Sincerely,Jeff ColledgeBard's Productions, LLC</blockquote>

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