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Valg · 07-03-2005, 06:13 PM

We've always allowed our players a voice through reviews. Some have chosen to write negative things. If you scroll through our archives, you'll see we leave those up. Many more of our reviews are positive, but only a tiny fraction are 100% glowing. The clear majority have both good and bad things to say, and we think that as a group they provide a good description of our game.

This is true of many games- while any one review may be spurious, if you read several, you get a feel for the game. That's all they're intended to do.

Part of our positive experience with the review process might be that we tend to draw an older playerbase (*) than many games. But we also make an effort to treat our players like adults, which includes letting them speak. Deriding their contributions as "utterly worthless" and "complete rubbish" is inaccurate and beyond arrogant.

(*) I can't prove this. Just an impression from interacting with the playerbase and some informal surveying.

07-03-2005, 06:13 PM	#17
Valg Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Home MUD: Carrion Fields Posts: 643	We've always allowed our players a voice through reviews. Some have chosen to write negative things. If you scroll through our archives, you'll see we leave those up. Many more of our reviews are positive, but only a tiny fraction are 100% glowing. The clear majority have both good and bad things to say, and we think that as a group they provide a good description of our game. This is true of many games- while any one review may be spurious, if you read several, you get a feel for the game. That's all they're intended to do. Part of our positive experience with the review process might be that we tend to draw an older playerbase () than many games. But we also make an effort to treat our players like adults, which includes letting them speak. Deriding their contributions as "utterly worthless" and "complete rubbish" is inaccurate and beyond arrogant. () I can't prove this. Just an impression from interacting with the playerbase and some informal surveying.