Do you take gaming awards seriously?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I normally would have said zero, but Mouseguard running the board last year (I think?) certainly made me consider it.

This is my answer as well, although substitute "everything in Monte Cook's The Year's Best D20 book made me consider buying the original products" instead.

So it depends on the award. But everything in YBD20 was so good -- even if I have no call to ever use the Yogi 3E class, for instance -- that it definitely put products, publishers and creators on my radar who might never have been there otherwise.

 

[nedjer]

The BBC3 of the blog category getting nominated is appreciated as it's comes across as a community award.

The award awards, outwith ENWorld, seem a bit of a bunfight where the lead up to a celebratory mass gaming party has a slight undercurrent of plotting and rivalry.

This is dull; but exaggerate it, throw in a touch of MTV award ceremony randomness, invite some monsters to the party and we'll see what happens when the Beholder doesn't get a prize

 

[Vegepygmy]

Anyway, their big question was, has your decision to buy a game, a supplement, or whatever ever been influenced by it having been nominated or awarded one of these awards?

I don't pay any attention to such awards, so I don't even know which games have won them. And if I did, it wouldn't influence me one bit.

 

[Zelda Themelin]

Nope. However sometimes those awards give fame to some books I never would heard otherwise. In this sense they are helpful for product to become more known. So I might find some books I like and get, because I might have missed them otherwise.

What comes to other infulence of awards, I don't think those books are good for my use automatically.

 

[ryushima2011]

It depends.

 

[jaerdaph]

I love how the ENnies have gone from being mostly a d20-centric EN World community award at the beginning to a much more diverse award in recent years. It really is the premiere RPG award now.

And there's a lot of truth to the old saying, "it's an honor just to be nominated." The ENnies make me look at games I might not have looked at before.

So do I take gaming awards seriously? Yes, but always in good fun.

 

[Walking Paradox]

It depends.

That's an underwear brand.

 

[The Shaman]

Anyway, their big question was, has your decision to buy a game, a supplement, or whatever ever been influenced by it having been nominated or awarded one of these awards?

There are gaming awards?



I guess that would be, no.

 

[DumbPaladin]

I really pay attention to the Spiel Des Jahres, the award given for board game excellence. By the time I started to pay attention to which games had won this award, I ended up finding out I already owned and enjoyed several on the list.

Awards for RPGs and the like don't mean anything to me.

 

[Starglyte]

Has no effect on my purchases. Don't care much for the awards either because more often than not, they get used as ammo in online flame wars.