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<blockquote data-quote="HellHound" data-source="post: 433104" data-attributes="member: 3397">Re: Re: Review inflation on ENworldWow... harsh.I know you have never given one of my products a &quot;2&quot; yet, but another staff reviewer has, but I certianly still have him in my distribution list (hint hint, Simon Collins, you know who you are... <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />). The best thing a company that gets a bad review can do is work hard to get a better review. That's why I still send out promotional copies even to people who have panned my owrk in the past. But there ARE exceptions. For example, we won't send out promotional copies of our material to several review sites after the Kid's Coloring Book fiasco. My two children wrote a book, paid to have a limited print run done out of their own pockets, and brought said book to GenCon. They gave away copies to their favourite game designers, and sold the rest. A lot of reviewers came up and asked for free copies to review, and they all got one. In fact, enough were given away that the girls lost money on the print run. That was August 8th - 11th and there are still NO reviews of this book up anywhere. One review site &quot;lost&quot; the copy they were given, and none of the others have been bothered to post these reviews.It's one thing when a complimetary review copy is volunteered, but when a reviewer SOLICITS a review copy, especially from a 7 year old child, they had damn well better actually review it.Wow... did I mention I am bitter about this? If these same two children hadn't have been part of the award-winning Portable Hole team, they would have walked away from the whole GenCon thing with a significant dislike for the whole game publishing scene.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HellHound, post: 433104, member: 3397"] [b]Re: Re: Review inflation on ENworld[/b] Wow... harsh. I know you have never given one of my products a "2" yet, but another staff reviewer has, but I certianly still have him in my distribution list (hint hint, Simon Collins, you know who you are... :D). The best thing a company that gets a bad review can do is work hard to get a better review. That's why I still send out promotional copies even to people who have panned my owrk in the past. But there ARE exceptions. For example, we won't send out promotional copies of our material to several review sites after the Kid's Coloring Book fiasco. My two children wrote a book, paid to have a limited print run done [b]out of their own pockets[/b], and brought said book to GenCon. They gave away copies to their favourite game designers, and sold the rest. A lot of reviewers came up and asked for free copies to review, and they all got one. In fact, enough were given away that the girls lost money on the print run. That was August 8th - 11th and there are still NO reviews of this book up anywhere. One review site "lost" the copy they were given, and none of the others have been bothered to post these reviews. It's one thing when a complimetary review copy is volunteered, but when a reviewer SOLICITS a review copy, especially from a 7 year old child, [b][i]they had damn well better actually review it[/i][/b][i][/i]. Wow... did I mention I am bitter about this? If these same two children hadn't have been part of the award-winning Portable Hole team, they would have walked away from the whole GenCon thing with a significant dislike for the whole game publishing scene. [/QUOTE]

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