shikamaru317 said:
Why would they do that? If it's just the critics voting, it's like the many other awards out there, so what is the point then? The audience needs real power to decide what wins awards. If it's just critics then it's even worse than the government, at least with the government we get to vote to elect our politicians who will then be voting for us, but game critics aren't voted in by the general population, they don't represent us. Critics like what they like, which is often very different from what general audiences like. It's the same way with movie critics, they have proven time and again that they don't represent what the general audience likes with their review scores and award shows. |
If the point is to award what public likes, why not use sales instead?
I doubt even 10% of people who bought any of those games bothered to vote, in reality most of them must not be even aware of gaming award shows, so how can a intenet poll be a true representation of what public likes ?
Of course, be prepared to see Call of Duty winning on yearly basis because that's what general public likes
