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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1686067" data-attributes="member: 3400">Of course, similarly, anyone who thinks that high sales MUST indicate high relative quality probably has too uncritical a view of the free market. I think using sales as one of the criteria is a singularly bad idea. For one thing, high sales volume is its own reward. Second, sales may well have more to do with the quality of the company's distribution network and marketing as well as past history with it's customer base than the inherent quality of it's product. I would be willing to bet that WotC's worst quality supplement for Forgotten Realms would outsell the best product Bottled Imp Games would have to offer.Third, by focusing on quality and specifically ignoring the volume of sales, the Origins awards give all products (theoretically) equal footing regardless of the ability of the publisher to move the sales into wider markets or at cut rate prices. It allows the small publisher to compete as equals on a per product basis.Now, if there are problems of systematic biases among the nominators, then that is a problem worth addressing. But making sales volume part of the equation for nomination is a bad solution for any type of awards. It may be that quantity has a quality all its own, but I think we can find a number of non-game industry examples of inferior quality products outselling and outcompeting their superiors for a variety of reasons linked to factors exterior to the quality of the product (like marketing and price).</blockquote>

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