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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 1719838" data-attributes="member: 87">I find that comment highly insulting.  Origins never has been (to my knowledge) and never will be a fan award.  Whatever the ENnies becomes, it will remain an award decided by the fans and supported primarily by themBy accident or design we were seated right next to the Origins booth.  It was odd contrast really.  The Origins were once the most widely lauded and sought award in gaming. But after a series of scandals their prestige is undermined and it shows in the way they are spoke of throughout the net across multiple boards.  The ENnies meanwhile are the scrappy newcomer to the scene - still struggling to define themselves sure, but with a pure heart. They had their spiffy $1000 dollar booth manned primarily by employees - we had our granted booth decorated only by what *I* could personally afford (along with Hellhound's dry-erase board) manned and visited by enthusiastic volunteers.I asked them about their statues and I got a long elaborate snotty answer equivocating to "you can't afford to give this away, so go away."Yeah, Origins is not all that. They are, at best, a guilded monster collapsing in on themselves.  To insinuate that we (the ENnies staff and judges) will go down that same path of corruption is to slap us in the face.</blockquote>