The Truth About Tabletop Game Reviewers Part 2: Results
146#LiegeOfGames #boardgames
Stonemaier games recently sent out a survey shortly after that discussion to all the media folks on their content creator list asking 9 questions. This was followed up with now additional questions to publishers along the same lines.
Part 2 is here. The results of the survey. You're probably also why I titled these videos the way I did. It's actually me using the same title of the blog post where the results of the content creators is posted. It's clickbait. But as I'm going to show, done in a way to promote conversation about an important topic not to bait and switch.
But is it the "Truth"? Statistics are purely objective data. How we often interpret the data is the part where things become sticky, unclear, or can even be used to try to fit a narrative.
The question to go along with this: are these results good, bad, or something else? And like I'll talk about, the way we interpret these results is going to be potentially highly dependent on how the question is framed, how people think about it in the same way, as well as what is a meaningful number or answer to some of the questions in the first place.
I won't lie. I'm anxious about posting this in the first place and how it might affect me in this community. Well here we go I guess. And just remember, I'm usually wrong. But who knows maybe I'll get it right this time
Link to part 1 here: • The Truth About Tabletop Game Reviewe...
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Time Stamp:
00:00 - Tabletop Statistics and Why Clickbait Isn't Objective Bad
03:42 - Result #1 - How Many Games For Free Reviewed?
04:55 - Result #2 - Do You Disclose??
ONLY 90%??
05:15 - Result #3 - How Many Times Have You Been Offered Money for Review??
Comparison to Publisher Data Discrepancy
06:24 - Result #4 - Publishers Paying Content Creators?
06:40 - Result #5 - Content Creator Asking For Money To Publisher
This one is tricky depending on who's asking (Not sure if quote is referring to the same or #14?)
07:18 - Result #6 - Non Review Opinion Given???
Doctors Can’t Get Pens For A Reason
08:42 - Result #7 - Do You Mention Biases??
Which Biases Exactly?
If I was a Pandasaurus Employee, Would You Be OK With Me Reviewing Their Games?
LOTTERY EXAMPLE!!
11:45 - Result #8 - Not Your Usual Themes and Mechanisms
12:19 - Result #9 - What If You Don’t Like It?
12:52 - Result #10 - Worried About Saying Negative and Losing Access?
This Video Worries Me
14:54 - Result #11 - Publishers Paying For Reviews
15:17 - Result #12 - Will You Send To People With Overt Biases?
16:44 - Results #13 - Sending To People Who Like It?
17:02 - The Best of the Rest
If Negative, Will You Still Send It To Them Again?
18:18 - Positivity Doesn’t Mean Shill and Negative Isn’t “Honest”
Find People Who’s Tastes Are Similar