Talk:The Price of Freedom (role-playing game)

Criticism removed

I think it was reasonable to remove these, but reposting them here on the talk page:

• In an interview to Juhana Pettersson (a Finnish novelist, TV producer, journalist and game designer), Greg Costikyan admitted:

My political views are not those of The Price of Freedom; at the time, I considered myself a ‘left libertarian'.

[…] Some of my more liberal friends were intrigued by the idea, but repulsed by the heavy-handed nature of its political message […] But in general, you know, it was a flop. We had quite a lot of interest from the distributors pre-publication, but in the event, it did not sell particularly well. Keep in mind that this was the Gorbachev era, US-Soviet relations were improving, and the scenario was viewed as pretty implausible. […] [I'm] A tad embarrassed by the game.

— Greg Costikyan to Juhana Pettersson, Non-Digital: Better Dead Than Red

• According to Petterson, "[The Price of Freedom is] a conservative game designed by a non-conservative designer wishing to sell games to conservatives. [... it] is clearly and explicitly meant to be played by conservative U.S. players living in 1986." Contrarily, James Maliszewski consider that "This isn't exactly a game that takes itself too seriously. […] like Paranoia, The Price of Freedom is actually a well-designed little game."

These pieces were originally posted by User:Cdang in 2015. BOZ (talk) 07:23, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello BOZ : what do you mean by: ″it was reasonable″?

cdang|write me 21:09, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

The interview in question is now a dead link. While I personally respect James Maliszewski and would happily use his blog as a source, it has not been judged as RS (yet). Hence the removal of the material in favour of RS sources.Guinness323 (talk) 23:46, 27 November 2023 (UTC)