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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostwind" data-source="post: 302370" data-attributes="member: 3060">I don't believe that anyone is claiming the voting was fixed, rather just that Wizards has a bit of an edge in the competition because they are so well known.  These are fan-based awards and not industry-based so naturally companies that have greater public exposure will stand to fair better on the average.I believe that next year will result in the creation of more nominating categories after the smoke from this year's awards have cleared.  I would not be surprised to see several new awards for pdf only releases such as Best Supplement, Best Adventure, and possibly Best Campaign Setting.  Furthermore, there will likely be an expansion of categories in the printed side of products possibly including a breakdown of genres such as Modern, Historical, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.  Regardless of how the categories change, there will always be a slight skew in the voting of most popular versus best quality.  This is something that will be a factor as long as the general public is allowed to vote.  Face it folks, this is a popularity contest to a certain extent.  People will vote for products they are most familiar with and not necessarily for those that are the best quality.  How many people voted for a product in a category just because they knew about it more than the others listed and not because they had actually played it or read it?  Unless you go the route of something like Origins where the awards are based upon more than just fan input this is something that will be talked about every year.  So you must either live with it or change the voting system to something different that helps weed the "popularity" factor out to a certain degree.  Perhaps the nominations could be opened to allow the general public to assist in selecting the nominations.  People could cast a vote for a product which would then be tabulated and used in determination of the final nominations.  Food for thought at least...Personally, I don't agree with all of the choices that were made as far as the winning awards go, but I do applaud each of the winners for developing a product that the general public feels is worthy of that award.  Regardless of whether you feel the "correct" winner was announced, you have to at least acknowledge that all of the nominations were at least good enough to be considered.  And that says a lot for every publisher's product and the authors who wrote them.  Well done, I say.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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