[Eagleon]

I barely ever read reviews. The only time I do is when I've already been in the MUD for a while and decide to post a review, which I also rarely do. It's mostly because I don't want to bother, as I can usually tell if a MUD appeals to me by spending five minutes on the game. Kallekins makes a good point, too many rave reviews show something about the playerbase (the most important thing, IMHO) but there are far too many trolls to wade through to try to gain from that fringe benefit. There are also good, unbiased reviews, but it's simply too hard to get to them.

As for me, I never write either types of reviews. Even if I'm saying to myself, "This game is absolutely awesome!", I know that those thoughts usually stem from personal preferences that shape you into a 'fanboi' of a game. It's not a bad thing, everyone should have a game like that, but in a review, it's useless. I simply bask in the awesomeness of those games and hope that more people find the game and agree with me.

[visko]

Having read all of say 4 reviews in my life, but having heard a great deal concerning them...

Why not put in a rating system? Counter-attack psychology aside in which an entire MUD's pbase gangs up on a puny little review and rates it down to 0, this could be a useful way for people to see a review, question its validity, check it out, and then rate it based on what they find. (It's also a way admins can "fight back" against soljax/clones without boring the rest of us with yet another "He's a #### liar" thread.)

my 2 cents.

-Visko

[KaVir]

Originally Posted by Why not put in a rating system? Counter-attack psychology aside in which an entire MUD's pbase gangs up on a puny little review and rates it down to 0

There was another site that used to do that. I remember, because Medthievia used to get all their players and staff to rate any negative comments about their stolen work as '0'.

[Favonius]

I'm sorry if someone else brought this up and I didn't see it..

WarHound, I don't understand your anger about playing 9 hours before the Imms notified you that your name was unappropriate. On Necromium, we usually try to avoid hassling new players about name issues (unless they are blatantly offensive or other important yet rarer situations) until they have settled in for a while. It saves us the trouble of changing the name of every player even if they are going to log out five minutes later and never come back and since the new player is already having to deal with getting used to the game, it saves them some trouble.