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All I know about Paizo Plus is from two web pages: Paizo Blog: Introducing Paizo Plus and the Paizo Plus page itself. I was surprised when I received emails from Paizo Plus reminding me of my purchases and suggesting that I could write reviews. Those two sources had said nothing about email invitations suggesting that I write a review.
The first one was Wednesday, November 19:
Your Recent Paizo Purchase
Hello Erin!Thanks for your recent purchase of Pathfinder Battlecry! PDF. We'd love to have you review that product for other players!
If you are a member of the Paizo Plus program, you will earn 5 gold for each review you complete (up to 5 gold/week). If you're not a member yet, just click the Paizo Plus link on the main store page.
Thanks again for supporting Paizo!
followed by an interactive form for submitting a review.
I have not yet read through my copy of Battlecry!, so I did not write a review. The second email was on Monday, November 24, and it suggested that I write a review for my purchase of Pathfinder Society Scenario #6-03: Godsrain in a Godless Land.
I did write that review. I tried to submit it via the form in the email, but the next page glitched. It demanded that I fill out the number of stars, but I had already done so. But I had written the review in a separate text file, an old habit from relying on buggy computers. So I submitted the review on the purchase page for Godsrain in a Godless Land. Soon I received an email, "Please verify your review," and I did so by clicking a button.
Nothing happened for a day. The next day, the review appeared and my Paizo Plus page displayed that I had exactly 5 gold. Technically, having exactly 5 gold was a glitch, too, since some of my other actions should have provided more gold. That has been repaired and now I have 245 gold in Paizo Plus.
I have also learned that the reviews do not apply the BBCode markup used in the Paizo forums, so my review has gratuitous i's and /i's instead of italic text and b's and /b's instead of bold text. And it lost all my line breaks, so the paragraphs run together into one big block of text. Can anyone tell me how to format text in Paizo product reviews?
I will write reviews in the future. My reviews will be odd for Pathfinder Society materials because I bought them to supplement my Strength of Thousands campaign rather than playing them as is. I wonder how far back the email reminders will track my purchases and whether they will mention my purchases of especially old materials such as GameMastery Module W2: River into Darkness.
I returned to this thread when answering Ravingdork's question How do I leave a product review? So long as I am here, I should point out that I have not received any more emails about leaving reviews. Perhaps that is because I did write a review.
Hey Mathmuse! I'm going to investigate for you how to do markup in these reviews, and thank you for doing them! Thank you also for the feedback of this process!
Thank you.
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Hey Mathmuse! I'm going to investigate for you how to do markup in these reviews, and thank you for doing them! Thank you also for the feedback of this process!Thank you.
I have heard back from the team! They let me know that the new store reviews are plain text only!
I have heard back from the team! They let me know that the new store reviews are plain text only!Hey Mathmuse! I'm going to investigate for you how to do markup in these reviews, and thank you for doing them! Thank you also for the feedback of this process!Thank you.
That means that I don't have to experiment. I was going to try HTML next.
I wrote my second review, this time for Lost Omens Legends.
This time I noticed a media feature on the review page:
Add media
Upload button
Upload up to 10 images and 3 videos (max. file size 2 GB)
Do you have any advice about that? I am way too accustomed to working by words alone.
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I wrote my second review, this time for Lost Omens Legends.
This time I noticed a media feature on the review page:Add media
Upload button
Upload up to 10 images and 3 videos (max. file size 2 GB)Do you have any advice about that? I am way too accustomed to working by words alone.
Hey again, Mathmuse! I think this would be if you have any elements of your review that contain physical attributes! For example if something came damaged OR if something was shinier and prettier than you expected too! This is also where customers can include any easter eggs they find in their shipment from the warehouse team. It can also be helpful for mini reviews to show scale next to other minis or things like that! Does this help you? If not, let me know!