Re: My Final post on the PBM Report

From: senecalxi@aol.com (Seneca LXI)

Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Well, I don't know anything about the GP controversy or the principals
involved, but I'll drop a couple of comments (call it my "one cents" worth,
because its not worth two).

Most PBM companies are honest. However, most also have few clues about a lot of
business things, like customer relations, PR, and what have you.

Most players are generally honest. But a small number will bad mouth other
players or games for real and perceived slights (include PBM 'journalists' as
players).

However, obviously, there are exceptions. Gamers and GMs take things
personally. People make things up with malicious intent. Etc.

I don't know Ken well, but I do know him. I also haven've been following this
controversy, but I've heard rumors of it. I gather that Ken wanted to put an
article out summarizing the  past and current GP situation, and that when this
became public it was perceived as some sort of vendetta. Frankly, I don't see
the point. Even if Ken were up to some evil, shouldn't he get it into print
before people start hounding him? In any case, I haven't seen anything to
indicate he's malicious. In fact, the PBMR editorial bent seems to give the GMs
more of the benefit of the doubt than they usually deserve, in my opinion.

Lastly....keep beating the drums. I don't know about the rest of the PBM world,
but I'm more likely to pay attention to a PBM publication if it makes waves
than one that's too afraid to print anything negative, potentially negative, or
disagreed to by a subset of  players.

Have fun,
Chris Daly

References

Re: My Final post on the PBM Report
kmgraphiks@aol.com (KMGraphiks)
Sun, 02 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000