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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 8628964" data-attributes="member: 3285"><p>This here is one of the tips I plan to address in a future article: how long do you wait until you write a review? </p><p></p><p>Role-playing games are vulnerable to this, in that reading an adventure is quite different from playing it, and playing it once with one group can be very different from playing it with another. Over time, rules changes, tastes change, and players change, so if you wait too long, the product may no longer reflect the intent of its authors. </p><p></p><p>Conversely, some products are seasonal but due to rules constraints on reviewing, I can't wait that long to review the product. On Amazon, if I don't write a review quickly, I stop getting access to products to review until eventually they just cut me off completely. This encourages fast reviews, which isn't always great when the product is seasonal or the company makes it cheap so it works the first time, then breaks down later. I have gone back to reviews I've written to update them after a product has spectacularly failed, but that's rare (and Amazon makes it hard for you to find past reviews on Vine, which is a different system from the main Amazon site).</p><p></p><p>In short, reviews bias towards first impressions and unfortunately there isn't an easy quantifier of "I owned this product for this long" or "I used it 15 times." If there were, I suspect it would definitely carry more weight with readers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="talien, post: 8628964, member: 3285"] This here is one of the tips I plan to address in a future article: how long do you wait until you write a review? Role-playing games are vulnerable to this, in that reading an adventure is quite different from playing it, and playing it once with one group can be very different from playing it with another. Over time, rules changes, tastes change, and players change, so if you wait too long, the product may no longer reflect the intent of its authors. Conversely, some products are seasonal but due to rules constraints on reviewing, I can't wait that long to review the product. On Amazon, if I don't write a review quickly, I stop getting access to products to review until eventually they just cut me off completely. This encourages fast reviews, which isn't always great when the product is seasonal or the company makes it cheap so it works the first time, then breaks down later. I have gone back to reviews I've written to update them after a product has spectacularly failed, but that's rare (and Amazon makes it hard for you to find past reviews on Vine, which is a different system from the main Amazon site). In short, reviews bias towards first impressions and unfortunately there isn't an easy quantifier of "I owned this product for this long" or "I used it 15 times." If there were, I suspect it would definitely carry more weight with readers. [/QUOTE]
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