The Approved Rules System Expert (ARSE) in the RPG field is wanting to turn it into a wasteland of folks willing to pay for crappy products and unwilling to think for themselves. In the 90s I should have learned that no general couldn't write his own
wargame and that boardgames are about European paper being put into
boxes with Chinese plastic figures to sell to people in North America. If a "Game Theory" expert has thoughts on your game, they're probably just lying. They are either somebody that thinks being a concern troll is clever or a sock-puppet for hire to whomever has a bit of funding to control a table-toppers social media feed.
I learned this first through when I bought Alpha Blue. I disliked it. I disliked it hard, especially after paying like 15 plus Yen or some such. I openly reviewed it. I received within the day, like 20 minutes later though I had stumbled off to bed to end up reading it five hours later, an email from somewhere between Alberta, CA and someplace South Korean, (I check the ISP of unsolicited email) but more than likely Nevada, USA, that wanted me to start to really laying into the guy. I quickly and in public apologized then offered up my own game, the one that I could consider the best selling at the time, for review. Yet another day later, my format-designer (my wife) discovering this situation stated that I was an asshole.
"Don't do that again." She said before dropping the subject forever.
To any taking note, they had better know that a "1" star rating sells more games than say a "2" "3" or "4" Plus. I shouldn't share my secret explaining any rating detracts from any real negative effect on on-line rating system, but I will. So anyone's passive review without first trying to speak to the author plays into the trope of somebody purchasing a game without reading it. Luckily the purchase was refunded within minutes after being purchased? Still take your publicized purchase elsewhere from the purchase site and then disavowing the product as a part of the marketing process for what it is boils down to a few more sales. Thank you.
This post is actually about the current Zak Sabbath scandal, which hopefully has bloomed into everyone having said their piece and afterwards being a bit more restiive where reflection is not being inappropriate. Okay, to date, Zak S. was one of the main support elements of a person that had a chronic and progressively debilitating illness for about eleven years. In these years he has proven himself to be unreliable. In the later years he went from 24 to 14, which maybe has happened to more than a few males in the crowd, but not in such a dramatic time scale. Now I am not excusing him for the digression, I have had to beat up my own bloods' boyfriends every now and then. Those nieces or nephews, or sons or daughters, (We all want to be hillbilly until someone tells us it's bad) weren't spouting off about being porn stars. Lord help Mz Morbid's kin in this situation.
Mister Zachery Smith (is Zak short for anything but Zachery?) himself, after more than few debilitating ass-beatings, needs to buck up. I say this as a guy whose last communication with the man was "Tom K stop being a dick" when openly proclaiming my disapproval of Nazi fetishism even by Jewish folk (Achtung Cthulhu won an Ennie the following year). He needs to tell everyone to mind their own business about his past life and just do what he does. Is this support? Not really. It's someone that doesn't accept others' thoughts as my own.
When the man is in jail after raping a GIRL in a wheelchair is proven outside of FacetuBe, I can be be the man that only reviewed the product where my name was included in the credits to be later not included in the Nazi fetish crowd around him. He is a young man that went south and didn't have any strong male or LGBTQ influence on his life when dealing with a failing relationship. Get over it folks. It's all Middle School after the initial sales boom.
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