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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 2944686" data-attributes="member: 10201">[i had a longer, more in-depth post here, but my webbrowser crashed, so the 2nd time around it's a bit briefer.]Actually, the only people who should really have a say in the awards are the fans & consumers. The publishers most definitely should not be making any of the decisions. It's precisely those being judged also deciding how the judging should occur that has ruined many other awards, both RPG and otherwise. And by 'ruined', i mean making them irrelevant to the people they're supposed to be informing: the fans/consumers.So, yes, you *can* just ignore the companies. It's the companies who can't just ignore the awards (or, at least, that's the way it should be). The communication path sholud be the consumers/fans telling the awards ceremony how to do things, and then the awards criteria influencing how the publishers behave. It's perfectly acceptable for the publishers to tailor their products to the awards--in fact, if the awards are doing their job (reflecting fan/consumer priorities), it's a very good thing--but the awards should not be tailoring their criteria to the publisher's demands/desires. Now, that's in a perfect world. In the actual RPG world, the line between consumer and publisher is mighty slim, and plenty of people outright obliterate that line. So what that means is we just need to consider the motives and impact of criticisms/suggestions, since simply considering the source won't be sufficient. IOW, while my comments as a publisher should be ignored, or at least given minimal weight, my comments as a consumer should be taken seriously. And i'll do my best to be honest in differentiating between the two, and the awards people have to exercise some judgement in determining if i've succeeded. And i think we can trust most other publishers/creators in this industry to do the same--as evidenced by several comments in this thread, already.</blockquote>

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