Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!

From: "Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>

Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000

MadCentral wrote in message
<19981201053009.19527.00000599@ng06.aol.com>...
>I've got to say I totally agree wth Steve of Spellbinder on this too.

Ha! The revolution has started. <g>

>I've had too many instances of player-threats about ''writing to
Flagship'' to
>which I always reply, ''please feel free to write to whomever you
choose."
>Flagships a great mag, but it isn't the commercial giant that some
players
>think it is, capable of laying companies low with an ill-placed word.  Of
>course, when somebody slates a game they didn't even put a turn in for in
>Flagship the same week you do a DPS ad, it does peeve.  I suspect that
has
>something to do with Flagship's difficulty in getting ad revenue.

Yes, it can really piss you off when that happens. Player power is still
stronger than you'd like, unfortunately. The nasty addage about a good
word of mouth reaching five people where a bad one reaches twenty still
holds true.

>The worst thing is when a player has a problem and in their *first
letter* to
>you says "put this right or I'll write to Flagship".  What do they
think...
>that you dontwant to help them?  I always fall over backwards to help a
player
>who has a problem... but I don't take kindly to rudeness or threats.
There's
>just no need, and people who do it put my back up.

Snap! If I make a mistake it is a point of principle for me that I put it
right as well as I can manage - professional pride means that you should
do nothing else. If someone threatens thatI should do it "or else", it
makes me wonder why.

>Anyway, I propose Flagship have a 'Rumours from the Back'' column where
GMs can
>write and malign players to warn other GMs about people with potential to
cause
>trouble for no reason other than a big ego and a personal power trip.  Of
>course, it'd cause an outcry... but itsno different to the existing
system
>really.  And I bet you'd see some names get mighty common from various
GMs too.

We'd love this, but we'd never get away with it. (sadly)

References

Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
"Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000