FW: [arg_discuss] Re: Communities and resources

[adam]

despain at quantumcontent.com wrote:

> "Colin Gehrig" <colin at colin.com.au> 
> 
>>Another new question to the list: How would you feel about a website
>>that Reviewed ARGs? Almost every other form of entertainment has some
>>form of review. However ARGs suffer from having a curtain, and only
> 
> 
> Hypothetically speaking, I think someone getting a "sneak peek" would have
> to be a) proven trustworthy ahead of time b) forbidden from playing the
> actual game after launch and c) asked to be obtusely descriptive instead
> of quantitative.
> 
> By this I mean... I don't think the people footing the bill would like to
> hear you're putting out an ARG that gets 3 out of 5 stars - before it even
> launches. Can you say "back to the drawing board at the 11th hour"?
>

Most mainstream game developers I know have had at least one game they 
worked on suffer grossly unfairly commercially due to hopelessly biased 
reviews or plain lazy/incompetent/moronic reviewers. Mainstream games 
have to cope with this. Why shouldn't ARGs?

Adam