Post originally by David Sinclair at 2003-08-04 12:25:30
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Tell me, have you read the books I've reviewed?
In every review here, the Big Bang gun books have gotten at least a 3 for style and a 5 for content. And over on RPGnow, where they sell, they have gotten nothing but 5 star ratings.
Call me biased all you want. But the fact of the matter is that these books deserve the 5 they get for content. And it isn't like I'm blindly giving the books 5/5. You people need to take the blinders off and take a good look at the ratings I give for style, most of which are under 5.
At this point, I think the rpg.net folks are dumping the other reviews I've written for other products on purpose, just to further instigate the troubles you jerks are giving me. After all, the generally accepted theory for a commercial website is that any traffic is good traffic...
Post originally by Mike Zebrowski at 2003-08-04 14:53:14
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<B>And we should really care about this why?
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As the management at RPGnet does not provide editorial oversight, it is possible for people to post extremely biased or even fake reviews.
The feedback fourms exist for several reasons. One of those reasons is to warn others of reviews that seem fishy.
In this particular case, there is a disturbing trend, starting 5 years ago, of Mr Sinclair giving products written by Mr Jorgensen glowing reviews while trashing competing products.
I personally find it odd that Mr Sinclair wrote two glowing reviews of products written by Mr. Jorgensen and then remained silent for 4.5 years only to resurface to write more glowing reviews for Mr. Jorgensen's products while trashing the competion.
Post originally by Dan at 2003-08-04 18:43:57
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What's even more odd is that "David Sinclair" recently claimed to have only met Dana Jorgensen at a convention, then admits that they go to the same local game store, then say they have played games together, and then -- when the author of a product competing with Jorgensen points out that no copy of that book was sold to a "David Sinclair" -- he says he's borrowing a copy provided to him by Jorgensen.
This person is either Jorgensen or has his head so far shoved up inside Jorgensen that there's no difference between the two.
Beyond that, the reviews are just poorly written, uninformative and all around hopeless as a general rule. I can't believe any of them get posted here.
Post originally by Dan at 2003-08-04 18:51:15
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Yaknow, I'm sorry, but license violations are not "nonsense." An author ought to take the time to follow the freaking licenses they are using or not use them.
I also note that the free version on the author's site that contains stats for Action! System totally violated that license and also included some very unprofessional comments about how the author of Action! obviously never held a gun... which is funny, as the author has a strong background in the military and law enforcement.
The comment in that book is extremely similar to one made by "David" here in a review of a product competing with this one about how that author supposedly didn't know what he was talking about either.
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