Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

>.Hello everyone. Just delurking here to let you all know how Spellbinder Games
treat player<<

Steve Tierney comes in:-
I've heard a lot of people slam Spellbinder over the years, but they have a lot
of players and its impossible to please everybody all of the time.  All PBM
firms upset a few people and sometimes those few people become a vocal
minority.  I know that it's been that way with us sometimes.  I respect that
some players who's opinions I trust have had misgivings, but in all my own
discussions with Spellbinder (admittedly not that many) I've found them to be
very pleasant.

>>Anyway, what follows is what I said when I dropped out, and what their "top
man" Chris Dempsey said in reply. <<

I don;t know you from Adam, GG Shaw.
Who exactly *are* you.  We only have your word for it that this is a real cut
from a Spellbinder message.  Now admittedly I might be naive, but I can't
believe that they would write a message like that.  How do we know that half of
it isn't your own creation to slate them?  I don't mean to be rude, but put
yourselves on the other side and consider what I am saying.  You make these
wild accusations about a long-term PBM firm with a respectable history.  But
you could just as easily b somebody with a grudge telling us a pack of lies.

>>What an utter load of rubbish, so to play a game by Email you have to
have `player front end software<<

While the language (if it realy was said) is a little rude, he does have a
point.  I would agree that play-by-email simply means playing a game by
E-Mail... front ends etc are pretty tag ons, but the game you describe
certainly *is* still a play by Email game.  because... you play it by E-Mail.
Duh! <grin>

>>Up yours smart ass<<

Well, this seems pretty over the top, but then to make a GM so angry I wonder
what you'd said to him in the past and what other letters, which you don't
print, form a history here.  I like to see both sides of a story before making
judgment.  So far all we've seen is yours, and Im just not convinced this is
the whole picture.

Steve
-Madhouse UK

References

Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
ggshaw11@aol.com (GGShaw11)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

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Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
ggshaw11@aol.com (GGShaw11)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000