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Originally Posted by Praesul  Are you serious..? You're seriously telling someone to nevermind what's being talked about, just mind what we've told you. That kind of blind allegiance is something the general public usually reserves for the Federal Government!
In all seriousness, policy discussion is an important indicator in the fundamental driving force of an organization or institution. If those in charge of policy continually talk about a certain policy change or idea, it is very likely that policy will eventually be enacted. If nothing else, it gives you some insight into the views of those in charge of the organization. People like transparency in organizations they are supposed to trust, including organizations that are giving their recommendation of a product through the doling out of awards.
Telling people to mind their own business does not build that trust. I, for one, continue to disregard most awards like these. They are as objective as political endorsements and negligibly more useful. |
I think you're overreacting here. The ENnies board isn't some shadowy conspiracy trying to sell books of the companies they're friends with. They're just some gamers.
Think about it: how often have you been planning your game and come up with some massively stupid ideas for an adventure, or plot, or whatever? You come up with a boring villain, or an overpowered combat, or a plot that's too railroady. If you briefly flirted with the idea of taking away the players' magic items that they love so very very much, but decided it would be a bad idea, why would you want to tell the players about it? Sure, it might foster trust with some players that, "Oh, thank goodness my DM is wise enough not to steal my stuff," but other players might get upset over something that you were never seriously considering in the first place.
Feel free to ignore the awards (even though I'm pretty sure most people agree that the ENnies nominees are generally pretty awesome products). But please, don't turn an honest desire for transparency -- explaining how the books are judged, how the funds of the ENnies are spent, and so on -- into an overblown desire to police the thoughts of the judges. People are allowed to have an idea, recognize it as a bad one, and set it aside, without other people having the right to get on their case about it.
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