Comments

1. Shawn Kirkham says:

   July 12, 2012 at 1:15 pm

   Chris and Cherylin, thanks for the mention on the podcast. I like Tsuro, and was happy to make that trade to you of Hawaii. enjoy 🙂

   You may not like the game, but what I like about it is the Randomness of the tiles and that it is easy to teach and play. For me it makes sense to have something like this in my supply of games to teach to new or inexperienced gamers to get them into our hobby.

   By the way..I’m a collector too….lol

2. Erik says:

   July 16, 2012 at 1:07 pm

   Asking a publisher permission to do what they asked you to do simply because the game is bad is the epitomy of being absolutely beholden to the publisher. Your “customer” is the listener/reader, not the publisher.

   I think it’s pretty crappy that you didn’t “name the blogger” simply because you didn’t like the message.

   Well, that’s the last time that I listen to this podcast, but I appreciate the honesty.

3. dicehateme says:

   July 16, 2012 at 9:42 pm

   Erik – I think our point about posting reviews may have been misunderstood. At the beginning of the discussion Cherilyn mentioned contacting publishers about negative reviews; I sought to clarify later that this was in relation only to a small portion of designers who had submitted Kickstarter products (and in the instances that I declined to review the game, those games’ campaigns were actually later cancelled). For the record, it is not our policy to withhold a requested review of a published game from an established publisher, and, as I mentioned, about 80% of the games I review I have purchased myself. In instances where I felt as though I had a negative experience in regards to an aspect of a game that I wanted clarification, I have, on occasion, contacted the publisher to add commentary and answer questions; an instance like this occurred last year in my review of Nightfall.

   Our overall point was not to state that we do not publish reviews of nor discuss “bad” games, but merely to reinforce that we choose to focus heavily on the games that we enjoy playing and feel that others will, as well.

   As for my reluctance to mention the “unnamed blogger,” I’m sorry that you feel that is crappy, but as I mentioned on the podcast sometimes it’s more powerful and prudent to hold your tongue than to let it lash out. It was enough for me to disagree with the sentiment – I didn’t feel like outing the blogger would have been much of a benefit to our discussion.

   I’m sorry to hear that you’ll no longer be listening to the podcast, but thanks nevertheless for taking the time to comment. I hope my rebuttal delivers some clarification and second thought.

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