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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jim Butler" data-source="post: 1738005" data-attributes="member: 1461">Just because the judges might have to visit their favorite local game store to jot down some notes about some products doesn't mean they're expected to buy all of them on their own. And if the awards were changed so that there was a benefit to the publishers at the time it mattered most (in that 90-day window when the product first launches), I suspect you'd have many more publishers willing to pony up the money to make sure the judges got to see their products first hand.I don't see this as a cost at all; it's negation of all costs. I guess it all depends on whether ENWorld is to be the neutral ground for all publishers or the home stomping grounds of EN Publishing. I suspect many more publishers would be interested in giving one of those sites their monies. What?! The ENnies drive traffic to your site, most of the publishers proudly link back to your site for their ENnies-nominated products, even more sites link back to you during the voting round. This should be even more reason for you to cause the above to happen more... not less.</blockquote>