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SimMarket reviews cannot be trusted

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Editorial reviews in general cannot be trusted and if it is just for the fact that I have yet to see a single negative review. I have seen some reviews on SimMarket that I completely disagreed with. I have also some reviews on Avsim that I disagreed with. And I have seen reviews on FlightSim that I disagreed with. I have also seen movies that were completely ripped apart by movie critics and I still enjoyed them tremendously.I usually get the best recommendations by clicking the "Search" button in forums here to see what multiple users have to say about a product.Pat

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CAPTAIN KEITH has some great stuff even some free addons. Everything I have seen has been good. To each his own I have never had a review taken down from any site even when I don't like the product. I always just stick to the point about what I like or dislike though.

Speaking as someone who has both written reviews and read many bad ones at Simmarket (including a few unfounded ones, where people yell that they didn't get features that no-one said were included), I can tell you very quickly why most sites don't provide bad reviews: The reviewers don't review bad products.Most reviewers provide a review of a product because they bought it and liked it. There are very few sites that get sent "freebies", although some do, and the result of that is that most reviews that you read on front pages really are by satisfied customers, so the product gets a good review.I don't know how Avsim works now, because I'm no longer on the staff, but back in the days of FS98, I reviewed a product that I wasn't massively impressed by - which was provided by the publisher specifically for review purposes. I wrote the review, Avsim published it and backed me up when the review was challenged. I later updated the review to represent a patched version of the product, but I still didn't give it full and total praise.However, there is still one review - here: http://www.avsim.com/pages/0606/CX2/CX2.htm - that I can stand up and say is less than glowing about a product. No reviewer can truly tell people not to buy something. All they can do is say "I don't like this, this is why". Ultimately, the buyer has to make a judgement and the review is supposed to help make that judgement informed.I very rarely trust reviews entirely and go a lot more on what is said in forums. Reviews, in my opinion, are more use to see what features a product has without all the marketing junk than as a mark of whether a product is worth buying or not. In the end, the latter is my call anyway and someone else will probably disagree. ;-)Cheers,Ian P.

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