Re: [GD-Design] Re: Gamedevlists-design digest, Vol 1 #38 - 10 msgs

[Brian H. <ho...@py...>]

>Can you recall which reviewers gave the lazy reviews? 

There's no way you can really cull the bad reviewers out.  There=
 are 
many reasons for this:

- the biases of individual reviewers often change

- if they find out they've been blacklisted, they'll often=
 publicly 
accuse the developer or publisher of knowing that they'll give an=
 
"honest" review and thus this is obviously favoritism

- often review copies are handed out by publishers without the 
knowledge or consent of the developer

- review copies are often given to a magazine or a publisher or a=
 Web 
site, without knowing ahead of time which individual reviewer=
 will 
receive a copy

The fact of the matter is that the popularity of the Web has=
 allowed 
any idiot that knows FrontPage to throw up a Web site and have an=
 
opinion that someone will listen to.  Such is life, you just have=
 to 
hope that there are more level-headed, intelligent reviewers out=
 
there than dishonest, lazy and disinterested ones.

Brian