Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:27 pm
More or less. They never, ever gave out comps of the Limited Edition to freelancers.
Then get a hold of it yourself to form a first hand opinion?Fucks wrote:Yeah. I'm not interested in second-hand opinions.
If that's the major complaint you have about the adventure...Stahlseele wrote:For example, one of the writers seems to not have gotten the memo that enhanced artwinculation does not work like it did in SR3 anymore . .
Shit, I totally agree with that.Otakusensei wrote:At this point, what are you expecting?
It's not like they are suddenly going to get their shit together and start producing quality product. They've had a year and more to do that and now we're in a sea of colorful but ultimately lacking PDF releases and a book of poorly crafted stats for set piece characters. Then they squeeze out the forth part of a set of product that saw it's major writers walk away with the ending after the second and you're wondering if it's good?
When has CGL given you any reason to believe that anything they've done in the last year is worth while. I'm actually really wondering if there's anyone who'll stand by one of their recent products. I know some of the fans out there who still care check this board from time to time. I want to hear someone who doesn't freelance for CGL stand up for something they've done.
nope.Fucks wrote:If that's the major complaint you have about the adventure...Stahlseele wrote:For example, one of the writers seems to not have gotten the memo that enhanced artwinculation does not work like it did in SR3 anymore . .
Don't worry. The official board is still full of sycophants and the soulless.Otakusensei wrote:I'm actually really wondering if there's anyone who'll stand by one of their recent products. I know some of the fans out there who still care check this board from time to time. I want to hear someone who doesn't freelance for CGL stand up for something they've done.
Standing up for CGL around this place is a tall order. (Pages and pages earlier, possibly even in another thread, there was a good analogy about putting your head in a fire and being surprised to find yourself burned.)Otakusensei wrote:At this point, what are you expecting?
It's not like they are suddenly going to get their shit together and start producing quality product. They've had a year and more to do that and now we're in a sea of colorful but ultimately lacking PDF releases and a book of poorly crafted stats for set piece characters. Then they squeeze out the forth part of a set of product that saw it's major writers walk away with the ending after the second and you're wondering if it's good?
When has CGL given you any reason to believe that anything they've done in the last year is worth while. I'm actually really wondering if there's anyone who'll stand by one of their recent products. I know some of the fans out there who still care check this board from time to time. I want to hear someone who doesn't freelance for CGL stand up for something they've done.
Compared to this place, Dumpshock loves CGL. Compared to the official forums, Dumpshock hates CGL.Fuchs wrote:Did Dumpshock lose the suck-up attitude?
Normally, when I see posts like this I file them away to the back of my mind or dismiss them outright because I'd rather form my own opinions when it comes to something I can so easily investigate myself. But in this case, I'm just going to take his word on it because Catalyst is apparently too dumb to realize that under no circumstances should a board focused on a single RPG ever need eighteen different sub-forums. I registered and posted a couple times and never went back, because seriously, that is some incompetence right there.Wesley Street wrote: Don't worry. The official board is still full of sycophants and the soulless.
There is worse.Whipstitch wrote:Normally, when I see posts like this I file them away to the back of my mind or dismiss them outright because I'd rather form my own opinions when it comes to something I can so easily investigate myself. But in this case, I'm just going to take his word on it because Catalyst is apparently too dumb to realize that under no circumstances should a board focused on a single RPG ever need eighteen different sub-forums. I registered and posted a couple times and never went back, because seriously, that is some incompetence right there.
In Paizo's case, it's simple competence. The forums (and, indeed, PR in general) are run by people with other jobs. As a consequence, it's slapdash.Whipstitch wrote:I can't decide whether the common thread between those companies is stupidity or a desire to shield themselves from criticism via tampering with the signal-to-noise ratio. It's probably one of those somewhere in between things.
An educated guess tells me that the official Shadowrun board is the result of a common school of RPG forum design propagated by Wildfire and Posthuman Studios. CthulhuTech has released, what, seven books total and nothing in the past year? Their board is just as fragmented. I wouldn't chalk it up to incompetence but rather, in CGL's case, misreading the market by assuming product interest would be so high several sub-fora would be needed.Whipstitch wrote:Normally, when I see posts like this I file them away to the back of my mind or dismiss them outright because I'd rather form my own opinions when it comes to something I can so easily investigate myself. But in this case, I'm just going to take his word on it because Catalyst is apparently too dumb to realize that under no circumstances should a board focused on a single RPG ever need eighteen different sub-forums. I registered and posted a couple times and never went back, because seriously, that is some incompetence right there.