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<blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1685053" data-attributes="member: 19893"><p>Hmm.. one of my posts seems to have vanished without being posted, so here goes again:</p><p></p><p>Regarding the "grumblings", its foolish to say they just came from "Dancey and friends". Unless you consider "Dancey and friends" to mean ANYONE who agreed with Ryan about needing to Fix GAMA and get the old board out... but then to dismiss those would be eminently silly, since they are the MAJORITY. The people trying to dismiss the need to fix GAMA are the MINORITY. They lost the election.</p><p></p><p>Regarding how good or bad the OGL has been: Someone mentioned the problem of "duplication", of the market being flooded by similar products. This is a problem that will fix itself over time. The OGL has revolutionized the industry. Of course, there are some people that hate the revolution; again, their side lost. </p><p></p><p>Someone also said that Ryan Dancey wants to "favour bigger companies" by wanting the Origins Awards to be "based on sales". </p><p></p><p>In the first place: The only people who could possibly convince themselves that there is NO connection between sales and quality are people who's products don't sell well.</p><p></p><p>If a product does sell well in the RPG industry (or any) its because its offering the public something it wants, it has some kind of positive quality.</p><p>Second, Ryan was NOT proposing to make the awards based on sales, he just wanted commercial success to be ONE of the qualities for nomination, not the ONLY. People seem determined to try to ignore that fact. </p><p>All Ryan was trying to do was drag GAMA kicking and screaming into reality, where the games nominated might actually be a game the GAMING PUBLIC actually plays, rather than obscure unplayable games that the critics like, or self-referential pats on the back by board members in the form of nominating their own games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nisarg, post: 1685053, member: 19893"] Hmm.. one of my posts seems to have vanished without being posted, so here goes again: Regarding the "grumblings", its foolish to say they just came from "Dancey and friends". Unless you consider "Dancey and friends" to mean ANYONE who agreed with Ryan about needing to Fix GAMA and get the old board out... but then to dismiss those would be eminently silly, since they are the MAJORITY. The people trying to dismiss the need to fix GAMA are the MINORITY. They lost the election. Regarding how good or bad the OGL has been: Someone mentioned the problem of "duplication", of the market being flooded by similar products. This is a problem that will fix itself over time. The OGL has revolutionized the industry. Of course, there are some people that hate the revolution; again, their side lost. Someone also said that Ryan Dancey wants to "favour bigger companies" by wanting the Origins Awards to be "based on sales". In the first place: The only people who could possibly convince themselves that there is NO connection between sales and quality are people who's products don't sell well. If a product does sell well in the RPG industry (or any) its because its offering the public something it wants, it has some kind of positive quality. Second, Ryan was NOT proposing to make the awards based on sales, he just wanted commercial success to be ONE of the qualities for nomination, not the ONLY. People seem determined to try to ignore that fact. All Ryan was trying to do was drag GAMA kicking and screaming into reality, where the games nominated might actually be a game the GAMING PUBLIC actually plays, rather than obscure unplayable games that the critics like, or self-referential pats on the back by board members in the form of nominating their own games. [/QUOTE]
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