| VXIII said: You don't have to limit the nominees for overall goty by 5 , make them 10 like Gamespot or even 15 , it shouldn't be too hard to estimate the least deserving from each platform , or just list every platform's nominees all together, but that would make the list too long That's a great system btw, I think it's much better than the current one |
The issue I see with that idea is that if you just use as many nominees as you have nominees for the console specific goty awards all added together then the prestige of just being a nominee loses some of its meaning. Mostly sites do goty awards to get their opinions out there, but it's also for hits, and hits are helped when publishers link to your award. They're less likely to do so if they're one of 15 nominees for an award instead of one of 5.
even just taking out the publisher prestige side of things, I don't like having a huge nominee list because I personally don't like dilluting the meaning of being a nominee. I want it to mean something when I tell some company they were nominated for an award, and I'll feel less like it matters if we have a huge list of nominees.
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