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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1747360" data-attributes="member: 5100">I'm not a GenCon attendee.  Maybe I will be someday, but I haven't yet.  ENWorld is a huge well of information about games/gaming for me.  What's that let me add to the discussion?  Well, how about ways the ENnies winners/nominees could be tied more closely with ENWorld? What about having an EN World store (if one exists, the fact that a regular user like me doesn't know about it may mean something)?  That store could feature all products nominated for the ENnies, with an emphasis on the winners.  That ties it in quite nicely to the web site -- and may translate to higher sales for the nominated/winning publishers.  Of course, as the outlet, EN World should get a cut, which shows the value to EN World. If you really want to push this, add in an earlier schedule for the ENnies selections.  Post the nominees a month+ before GenCon, so the "general public" has time to actually purchase and read some of the less known products before voting.  Give people two to three weeks notice before the vote, then let them vote.  Now, they've got a chance to be an informed voter.  I didn't vote this year because I didn't recognize 80%+ of the titles -- doesn't mean I wouldn't, just that I hadn't. That said, I haven't the foggiest idea of what the difficulty or expense of doing this would be.  It might be totally prohibitive, or not. There's also the chance that it could backfire and make the ENnies (and EN World) look "corporate" or "money-gouging".  Well, from what I'm hearing (sorry if I'm off base or out of line, Russ), it sounds like the site has gotten big enough that just the infrastructure needed to keep it running at current capability is pretty costly.  Something's going to have to happen to not just cut costs, but generate revenue or there may not be an EN World in another year or two.  IMO, that's nothing to be bashful about -- if you can pull it off, that means you're providing a useful service and you should be compensated for it.  The choices are either to go the American public television route and have a 'donor drive' every year, or to look at it as a business endeavor (even if it's a non-profit business).  The ENnies are a major point where this site and the publishers meet.  I'd think there's something there that would be able to be turned into a win-win.</blockquote>

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