Origins - Who's voting?

[Umbran]

I vote every year. Doesn't everyone?

Nope. The Origins awards calls a lot fo things "gaming". I'm fairly confident that few gamers actually have the broad familiarity required to have an informed opinion. I know I sure don't. I don't have the kind of cash flow necessary, nor the time to play games.

Plus, I'm really not sure the Origins awards matter that much, to be honest. I don't use a "winner of the Origins Award for best X" as a buying point.

 

[bwgwl]

Plus, I'm really not sure the Origins awards matter that much, to be honest. I don't use a "winner of the Origins Award for best X" as a buying point.

i'm sure it doesn't matter much to you, but i'd bet it matters to the game designers and companies of products that get nominated and win.

i voted in quite a few categories, but not all of them. if i recognized and had familiarity with even one product in the category and thought it was good, i'd go ahead and vote for it. my reasoning is that if i liked one thing, but didn't like the others enough to even buy them, then i should be able to vote for the one.

i found it a bit surprising that 3 out of 5 nominees for Best Game of the Year were WizKids clicky miniatures games. that's why i voted for Mutants & Masterminds.

 

[nHammer]

I voted. Gave props to my beloved Hero Games.

 

[Neowolf]

I voted, but not in every category. I mainly went to support Heroclix and Mutants & Masterminds.

 

[Umbran]

i'm sure it doesn't matter much to you, but i'd bet it matters to the game designers and companies of products that get nominated and win.

Well, then maybe they should be the ones voting?

i voted in quite a few categories, but not all of them. if i recognized and had familiarity with even one product in the category and thought it was good, i'd go ahead and vote for it. my reasoning is that if i liked one thing, but didn't like the others enough to even buy them, then i should be able to vote for the one.

That logic doesn't seem to follow. If you only know one of them, you cannot honestly say that you didn't like the others enough to buy them. You didn't know them at all, and may well have liked them better had you been exposed. Lack of knowedge of an item does not constitute knowledge that the item is lacking, so to speak.

I'd think that voting based upon knowledge of only one item either measures nothing at all, or measures marketing. You cannot measure relative quality without comparison between the contestants.

 

[Ranger REG]

Voted. At least they fixed the online ballot. It wasn't working during the last days of March, so much that I sent the academy an email complaint about their online ballot on the 28th of March.