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<blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 3637538" data-attributes="member: 2174"><p>I don't think these other categories should be let into the ENnies. Can't the RPG segment of the industry have something that is unique to them? </p><p></p><p>From what I understand, Gen Con will be featuring more computer game exhibitors this year than ever before. Should we add a computer game category to the awards? How about a console game category? </p><p></p><p>And what about play-by-mail games? They've long had a category in the Origins Awards, so let's add them to the ENnies, too! After all, we're trying to be all things to all people, and we wouldn't want to shaft Flying Buffalo out of an annual award.</p><p></p><p>But wait! There are so many categories now that the award ceremony goes three hours and the audience gets antsy. Well, one obvious solution is to start trimming RPG categories, since the awards are "obviously biased" in favor of them and there are more for that category than any other.</p><p></p><p>Fast-forward a few years. Let's imagine, just for fun, that RPG sales continue to decline while sales of board games and video games continue to increase. Why, with that sort of dichotomy why should RPGs have more than a couple of categories?</p><p></p><p>Believe it or not, RPGs are a shrinking part of the marketplace. Lots of new game stores don't even bother to stock them, and the preorders from distributors on most RPG product has been slipping pretty much annually over the last five years. I spoke with some fairly major-league RPG publishers at Origins, and I think the print runs some of them are down to would be absolutely shocking to your average EN World reader. So it's only a matter of time before RPGs are seen as a tiny part of the big gaming picture and are relegated completely to the side.</p><p></p><p>As a lifelong fan of RPGs and as one of the few people in America who actually manages to work on them for a living, I say let the other categories pound sand and find their own damn awards.</p><p></p><p>--Erik</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Erik Mona, post: 3637538, member: 2174"] I don't think these other categories should be let into the ENnies. Can't the RPG segment of the industry have something that is unique to them? From what I understand, Gen Con will be featuring more computer game exhibitors this year than ever before. Should we add a computer game category to the awards? How about a console game category? And what about play-by-mail games? They've long had a category in the Origins Awards, so let's add them to the ENnies, too! After all, we're trying to be all things to all people, and we wouldn't want to shaft Flying Buffalo out of an annual award. But wait! There are so many categories now that the award ceremony goes three hours and the audience gets antsy. Well, one obvious solution is to start trimming RPG categories, since the awards are "obviously biased" in favor of them and there are more for that category than any other. Fast-forward a few years. Let's imagine, just for fun, that RPG sales continue to decline while sales of board games and video games continue to increase. Why, with that sort of dichotomy why should RPGs have more than a couple of categories? Believe it or not, RPGs are a shrinking part of the marketplace. Lots of new game stores don't even bother to stock them, and the preorders from distributors on most RPG product has been slipping pretty much annually over the last five years. I spoke with some fairly major-league RPG publishers at Origins, and I think the print runs some of them are down to would be absolutely shocking to your average EN World reader. So it's only a matter of time before RPGs are seen as a tiny part of the big gaming picture and are relegated completely to the side. As a lifelong fan of RPGs and as one of the few people in America who actually manages to work on them for a living, I say let the other categories pound sand and find their own damn awards. --Erik [/QUOTE]
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