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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 3334543" data-attributes="member: 3477">I see your reasoning, but that would be a boring award scene what I think you suggest. It looks like you propose giving all awards to D&D, perhaps with the occasional Exalted in between and perhaps a "New Game of the Year" award, like the one for Serenity. In principle, awards like that would be completely meaningless, and nobody would take them seriously. You can look at estimated sales figures to get those results. Perhaps, we could have the "Amazon RPG awards" or "Borders RPG awards"?I like it when games like Artesia or Truth and Justice get nominated, even if they don't stand a chance of getting an award. Hardly any gamer has the time to look at as many games as the ENnie judges, which means that many good games will never be seen by most gamers. The procedure, as it stands at the moment, makes sure that games like that have a chance of getting a place in the spotlight, at least for a moment. In the next step, the fans decide via popularity, and games with low sales will never get an award.I think that this specific mix of quality control and popularity makes for the most interesting awards. They are neither as meaningless as a simple acknowledgement of what everyone knows anyway, like a simple popularity contest, nor only of interest for some specialist, like indie awards (which I also find a good idea, but for a very specialized audience). I don't think it makes sense to throw this advantage of the ENnies away.</blockquote>

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