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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monte At Home" data-source="post: 980737" data-attributes="member: 1335">Your assessment isn't incorrect. However, the unfortunate truth is that I'd trust the fans to have better knowledge of a wide selection of game products than the professionals. The majority of game industry folks just don't read each other's work (although I know this isn't true of you). Most of them will even admit that to you. I myself am getting woefully ignorant on new non-D20 game releases out there. (One of the many reasons I pay more attention to the ENnies more than the Origin Awards.)Thus, I think the weak link of the Origins Awards process is the closed, Academy members only nomination round.I like Ryan's proposal a lot. If it has a weakness it's that it depends too much on the folks in the industry. Another way to put it is, if we're going to have a popularity contest, I'd rather be the most popular among game players than the most popular among game designers. (It is interesting, though, that his proposal, having the top sellers in a category automatically put on the ballot, gives game players some say in the nominees, in a round-about fashion. Very sneaky, Ryan.)A sadly cynical side comment: Like so many of us in the Industry, I've seen many Origins Award ceremonies come and go--15 of them since I've been involved professionally--and it seems that virtually everyone is dissatisfied with how they work. I applaud Ryan for trying to fix them. More power to him, and I support him. At this point, I'd be happy to see anything new implemented, just to get a change. But as for myself, I've given up trying to think of ways to fix the awards. I spent the first half of my professional career coming up with all the things wrong with the awards, and ways to fix them, and the second half realizing all the reasons why the fixes I thought of wouldn't work and how the system is so inherently flawed that it's not worth trying to fix. (And yes, I say this as someone who's won Origins Awards.) I sincerely congratulate all the winners of the Origins Awards. I've little doubt that a great deal of work and creativity went into each and every product that won an award (I can vouch for Heroclix). However, I heartily support the ENnies.</blockquote>

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