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<blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5240680" data-attributes="member: 21076"><p>Of course its our choice.</p><p></p><p>Customer reviews server their purpose. Whether it be RPG books or computer equipment or any other area of interest. You just have to read them with that in mind. </p><p></p><p>I usually check customer reviews and sort of disregard the extremes (or at least read with a more critical eye) to either extremely positive or extremely negative. And then factor in what are people complaining or raving about. If they are complaining because there is too much fluff in an RPG book, well to me that's a good thing and tells me a bit more about the book in question, even if the review itself was negative.</p><p></p><p>This method has seemed pretty successful for my purchases - RPG and otherwise.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To lump any positive review on a product as being written by a "fanboy" seems quite limiting to me. That's fine to say you don't want to decipher the reviews but to call them useless as a whole to everyone is stretching it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IronWolf, post: 5240680, member: 21076"] Of course its our choice. Customer reviews server their purpose. Whether it be RPG books or computer equipment or any other area of interest. You just have to read them with that in mind. I usually check customer reviews and sort of disregard the extremes (or at least read with a more critical eye) to either extremely positive or extremely negative. And then factor in what are people complaining or raving about. If they are complaining because there is too much fluff in an RPG book, well to me that's a good thing and tells me a bit more about the book in question, even if the review itself was negative. This method has seemed pretty successful for my purchases - RPG and otherwise. To lump any positive review on a product as being written by a "fanboy" seems quite limiting to me. That's fine to say you don't want to decipher the reviews but to call them useless as a whole to everyone is stretching it. [/QUOTE]
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