Thanks for all the nice words guys, I really appreciate it.

Yeah, I get how the average ranking can be unfair and those two games were something I didn't feel particularly good about, but when it came down to it, I couldn't figure out any other method that wouldn't feel arbitrary and also unfair in its own way.

I mean, I don't know about this "future" because if there is another thread like this, it'd be 10 years away. Who knows what'll happen by then, really.

But anyways, yeah, this points system you mention was actually the first thing I tried. The issue with this one is that it heavily disfavors any games that came out during this decade - for example, Breath of the Wild ended up outside of the top 50 using this method, below a lot of games that never made it into any year's top 20, and that just didn't feel fair to me for a game that's won every event it was available for.

Then I tried coming up with formulas that would add extra points for the years a game hadn't been out for yet, or try to find some middle ground between the total points and the yearly average, but it was just... everything felt so arbitrary at that point, like I was trying to twist the rules to manufacture the list I wanted to have, rather than the actual list that was made by everyone.

So, instead of going with the arbitrary, I decided to go for the simple, and that was either total points, or average points. Total points felt way more unfair, so I went with average.

That said, I am considering changing the points system for this year's greatest games event (I've been considering it for years now, will probably end up not doing it ), and if I do, it might be something that can be used for a whole decade compilation like this. Maybe the next decade celebration thread will actually take into account all the individual votes from every user through every year? That isn't as much work as it sounds if one already has access to all the spreadsheets from all the years (which I didn't!), as long as the points system used can be easily added up. And even if I do stop doing this, I'd give the spreadsheets to whoever takes over.

Someone who participated in the event in difference to you... (-;

The only cool one is the one with the young lady in the sig that would wiggle her tits.  I don't know who these 2 posers are.