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Subject: Re: Review Of Majestic Chess

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:10:22 09/12/03

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On September 12, 2003 at 16:03:54, margolies,marc wrote:

>so do you think that the reviewer of majestic chess, jason forrester, actually
>spent 40 hours of role playing to discover what he tells us? Or is this review--
>a very positive review-- another manufacturer's plant like "superbird"?

All reviewers are generally given a "press kit" which allows them to speed up
the time it takes them to do reviews. When the press kit says something like "24
different personalities", the reviewer usually doesn't take the time to verify
that they are all there.

However, as for whether or not the reviewer went through the entire adventure,
as I said it may have taken him only 20 hours or so. Usually, a reviewer will
spend 3-7 days on a product, depending on how complex the program is, how
popular the program is going to be, how large the review is going to be (in word
count), how much the reviewer is getting paid, and how much the reviewer enjoys
the program. Therefore, it is quite likely that the reviewer might have finished
the complete adventure.

As for "superbird" et. al., I can only say that this review (and any official
reviews you find) are definitely not created by employees of Fluent
Entertainment, our publishers, Vivendi, or any other marketing team hired by
either of us.

User reviews are, unfortunately, a completely different matter -- and I
personally never trust any of them.

jm



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