That will probably boost your ratings back up.
@jjc37
Yeah and the ratings for the sequels will probably be a lot higher since, for the most part, only the people who rated it a 4 or 5 will read the sequels.
Theoretically, I’d agree with you. Most 1 & 2s wont bother less someone is vindictive. Didnt someone say their is someone that purposefully plants onesies?
@jjc37
I’m sure there are people like that. I sent a bad reviewer a message on Google+ letting him know that DH was updated, and I noticed that he left bad reviews on several CoGs
From what I recollect it might of been someone that was denied an entry but makes sense if can follow bread crumbs of bad reviews.
@jjc37
You mean his gamebook was rejected 0.0?
No idea actually, just hearsay on that part. I probably would doubt that claim to be honest. He did give alot of low reviews to many different variety of books which is odd. One of those had to been good enough for him? The next one should have contact poison applied to it. >:)
Sam you have to do a top ten most bizarre Cog reviews ever. And post it with the title if you think this Cog arent for you subtitle Crabbe and Goyle i didnt know you could read!
My top ten is the one that mistake you with JimD
I just checked and on my phone (android) the app is just called Trial of the Demon Hunter and the description doesn’t mention it being book one.
The app itself doesn’t say book one at the start unless I missed it. So at first glance its hard to tell.
Personally I’m just waiting for your “Your demons are wrong! They don’t destroy villages! The author knows shit!” review lol
Oh noz…demonz eated my cookie!
You should do what I plan to do and have a “to be continued in…” then put a pic of the title page of the sequel.
There was one review I saw on Amazon UK, claiming that JimD’s Zombie Exodus had amateur writing and that it was further hampered by annoying ads to get you to buy the full version. He/she/it thought 1.99 was too much to play past part two. Taking into account the quality of the game, they thought it should be free.
You betcha that I badly want to respond to the free comment. Someone writes a 750,000 word story, gives you a free trial so you can see if it’s for you, and then says it should all be free? I’d sincerely ask that person to write 750,000 words and give it away for free. They do realise people need an income, also?
So, Jim’s game is sitting at 3 stars currently on Amazon UK thanks to that 1 star ‘review’. And yes, for whatever reason, people will give bad reviews to be vindictive etc., even if they may not have read the product.
@Nocturnal_Stillness I will see to doing that if it is something that will work with what I’m writing now. Never hurts to try things and see what happens. My composition class was a breeze. The professor loved my works and I aced that class pretty easily. The composition class covered both fiction and nonfiction ideas but mostly nonfictional.
@DavidGil don’t forget it wasnt JimDs work it was Sam’s. 
Everything’s supposed to be free isnt it? I am supposed to get free cars, free food, nothing has a cost at all. Yay! Free everything! Bugger the lot of em on those 1 reviews cause they don’t know squat.
Only time I’d ever consider giving a one star out is if the grammar/spelling is very bad. People are putting a product out for others to buy, so it should be as perfect as possible. Of course, I’d also give a one star if the story itself was absolutely awful. And by that, I mean when it’s incoherent and non-existent.
So, by my reckoning, very few works deserve a one star. Certainly not something that has had someone’s blood and sweat poured into it, which Jim’s work is the product of. In contrast, very few works are worthy of 5 stars too.
I give 5 stars only if I really enjoyed it. Sometimes I would give a 5 even if I think its a 4 but only if I can see the hard work someone has put into it.
Even though I don’t always want to give 5-rated reviews, I tend to give them out a lot because I know that other people dont rate in the same way that I do, and I feel that it’s good to support the developers. What would be a 4 for me is often a 5 for others even if they felt the same way I did, so I tend to rate more highly than I feel I should.
That’s the thing actually, @Redgrave . What I was talking about is how it should be in an ideal world. In reality, anything less than a four tends to have a negative impact on search engines, I believe. I know that I personally received a 3 star review (3.5 actually, but it doesn’t count half stars on amazon), which read more like a 4 star, but it was flagged as ‘critical’ when I didn’t see anything critical in the review aside from the length comment. So I guess many people do what you say.
@Nocturnal_Stillness I gave Slammed a 5 star review for that reason. Would have been a 4 ordinarily. At the time, I wasn’t aware of how easy it is to code or sift through it when editing though. Still, I’d likely keep the 5 star rating now, but I’d probably rework the review.
Jjc87
Yeah, definitely xD
LOL! Yeah, ***I*** wrote ZE!
@poison_mara
Yeah it’s pretty insane. That one was just unbelievable
@Nocturnal_Stillness
The title’s too long to say that in the app stores, but it should have "book one of Demons Among Men added in the actual app and on the online demo
I can’t wait. I gauruntee you it’ll happen.
Yeah I think I’ll put “to be contued in Judgement of the Fallen - book two of Demons Among Men” in the next update
@DavidGil
750,000 words is the equivalent to 1,500 pages and they want that for FREE! That’s just evil
@Samuel_H_Young So it seems.
And I think it was mentioned that it was over 750,000 words on the official blog. Think Jim confirmed it too. I know that I recently checked the code out and when copy + pasted into MS Word, the scene files can go as high as 85,000 at least, I think, so I can easily believe it. Shows how much content we see on a given playthrough and how much work Jim put into it, yet some ‘person’ just wants to slam it. (When I checked the word count for Safe Haven, I remember it being over 40,000 - 50,000 already, and the first chapter’s not even complete, right? Cool that you can check the code for WIPs as well, btw, from dropbox. Thought you could only do it with published games)
Anyways, like I’ve said, everyone goes through this. Everyone who thinks about publishing something and making it available just needs to accept it and have a thick skin. It’s the way of the world, sadly. Nothing we do or say can change people/society.
Edit: As an aside, for anyone editing a WIP, a little tip. Copy and pasting from Notepad can mess up your formatting by putting parts of a paragraph on a new line. Copy and pasting the text from your scene file online when the source code is viewed though? That works well. Not sure how well it works when copy + pasted from Word into Notepad yet though.
@DavidGil
What a terrible person. I’ve had a few people tell me DH should have been free. Uhhh, you want me to get thousands of dollars less in royalties so you can save two bucks on something I worked on for over a year? I think all these arrogant people are just spoiled by having the first several CoGs/HGs released for free. And in response to that guys “review” why did he buy it if he didn’t like the story!? He apparently had “no ambition to read it” uhhh…good…because it’s ****ing optional.
Ik, but can’t I enjoy invalidating horrible reviews with you guys :)?