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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1687127" data-attributes="member: 3400">Because sales figures don't necessarily reflect quality and for a quality award, that should be enough. The free market can produce some anti-quality results for a variety of reasons that don't have to do with quality as well. Cheap products that aren't as good as more premium offerings, as long as they meet some minimum quality that keeps them out of the cut-out bin, could sell very well by comparison and thus skew the results away from quality offerings. These are some of the very arguments I've been making all along.Sales may not reward the most playable, most fun, most well-written, best artistically represented product on the market if that product was from a small publisher unable to get their product available from Amazon.com, Borders, Barnes and Noble, and a variety of other large stores that could be the only significant presence of gaming-oriented outlets in the area. THAT'S a systematic bias that rewarding sales can present to the awards. Why should the gaming instustry, in an effort to reward quality products, lean in that direction considering large numbers of sales are their own reward?If you want to reward good marketing, then come up with a marketing campaign award, but don't lump that in with product quality. A good marketing campaign does not make a good product, even if that marketing camapaign is a success or is, in and of itself, a remarkable achievement in marketing. Note also that a "successful" product is also not necessarily one worthy of being awarded by a group of industry peers. Sometimes a less successful one deserves that award more. Sometimes that best sellling, successful product is worthy of awards. But if people feel that it got its nomination just because it was the 800 lb gorilla, isn't that award tainted? Keep the bias of sales out and you won't have that problem. You would have a stronger argument that it made it into the nominations because of its merits, not because it had a sweet discount through Amazon.</blockquote>

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