Reply To: Is it time for some more critical analysis of rule sets

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I’d say OTT/BoW always say what and how they feel about the games they play.

@mkultra99 please do post a full review of SPQR because I do want to know more details than ‘we didn’t like it’.

Any actual info on why you thought Tanks:Modern age was bad would be useful as well.
I dislike blanket statements like “game X sucks”, because they don’t allow me to judge if the flaw bad enough for me to skip buying a game.

I’m no fan of pointsvalues for wargames, because there are factors (like deployment, terrain) that can turn a high value asset into a 1 round paperweight. As such I doubt that a game like Tanks could ever be balanced when both helicopters and tanks are used within the same battle. I also suspect that the tournament packages take this into account somehow.

I’m not in favour of (unmoderated) user reviews, because based on the things I see posted as ‘reviews’ on Steam the vast majority are either whiny wimps (I died so the game sucks) or fanboys (it’s my favourite developer so it’s 11/10). And that’s without even mentioning the review bombing which happens when good games get bad reviews because of something that the developers/publishers did.

Part of the challenge for this for OTT will be the simple fact that there’s no way to track if the person posting owns a copy or has played it for X hours. In theory they could track users who have bought games in their webshop, but I suspect that requires updates to the GDPR statement and that’s assuming the systems can be linked at all.