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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 7674475" data-attributes="member: 1620"><p>Sigh.</p><p></p><p>Look, again ... it's not about ego. You just think it is, which, as I said, illustrates why some commercial publishers don't want to mingle with non-commercial products for an award. Opening up anything they have to say to such a subjective, interpretive and reactionary response like you're presenting simply isn't to their benefit.</p><p></p><p>There are, for example, some absolutely AMAZING "fan", non-commercial movies I can watch in HD via Youtube and the like -- some of which are put out by people who also work professionally in the film industry. However, how do you think the film studios would react if those movies were nominated alongside their own in the Oscars? The mere presence of such films would harm their branding as a studio -- in layman's terms, it would "hurt their name." And do you think that would improve if the fan movie won?</p><p></p><p>Same thing here. Commercial game publishers spend money on putting out their products and they have reasons related to that money for submitting to awards, so when the risk of brand damage (and other concerns) come up from such a thing, they are placed in a position of risk assessment. Part of this risk assessment is the common perception that the ENnies are a commercial product award. So, when they submit something for a given general category and don't make the cut but a non-commercial product does, that does not exactly boost their product or company branding favourably. Nor does it provide them an incentive to keep submitting. The proper way to handle such a concern would be to either create fan specific categories or an additional, separate fan-based award process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Conan Trustrum, post: 7674475, member: 1620"] Sigh. Look, again ... it's not about ego. You just think it is, which, as I said, illustrates why some commercial publishers don't want to mingle with non-commercial products for an award. Opening up anything they have to say to such a subjective, interpretive and reactionary response like you're presenting simply isn't to their benefit. There are, for example, some absolutely AMAZING "fan", non-commercial movies I can watch in HD via Youtube and the like -- some of which are put out by people who also work professionally in the film industry. However, how do you think the film studios would react if those movies were nominated alongside their own in the Oscars? The mere presence of such films would harm their branding as a studio -- in layman's terms, it would "hurt their name." And do you think that would improve if the fan movie won? Same thing here. Commercial game publishers spend money on putting out their products and they have reasons related to that money for submitting to awards, so when the risk of brand damage (and other concerns) come up from such a thing, they are placed in a position of risk assessment. Part of this risk assessment is the common perception that the ENnies are a commercial product award. So, when they submit something for a given general category and don't make the cut but a non-commercial product does, that does not exactly boost their product or company branding favourably. Nor does it provide them an incentive to keep submitting. The proper way to handle such a concern would be to either create fan specific categories or an additional, separate fan-based award process. [/QUOTE]
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