CompuServe Thread

> review should be written by someone with experience > because people reading the review expect it, and the > magazine expects it. I have jumped into this thread without reading the basic article, so I will not get into commenting on anything but the sentence above – I disagree strongly with you. It is far too easy for someone "with experience" to forget about the steep learning curve of a product, or the lack of support by the author. Based on _good_ reviews, I purchased DAC[not very]Easy. I found the program to be impossible to use, the documentation ommitted some significiant information and Tech support wanted to charge me for each of the 3 calls I made [all refering to omissions in the docs]. It _IS_ important that a reviewer spend enough time with a product to get to know it, and to know how to use it. But years of experience can make bad memories of learning a package fade. I nose around this forum because I am interested in a future purchase of 3D Studio – and I know that users often have a much more objective view of a product than to journalists. My two cents worth Rob