Yes, I should have made that distinction, thanks for pointing that out.
  I am sure you are right that many more people will vote than are 
responding to this thread, especially once we publisize it a bit.
  Right now I propose we list all games released in 2007 so folks can 
nominate them for voting in two categories to keep things simple:
1. Commercial games including paid betas
2. free games and betas

  So basically we would end up with a commercial and non commercial game of 
the year.
  There just seems to be too few game releases of different categories to 
have seperate votes for sports, strategy etc.
  Thoughts?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] voting on game of the year


> Hi Che,
> Well, in the case of Betas there are some that are free and some that
> are commercial. Montezuma's Return is definitely commercial, and to play
> the full Beta someone needs an end user license. SoundRTS on the other
> hand is totally free so there are no end user restrictions on playing
> the whole game.
> Though, you definitely have a good point that the free games and
> commercial games should be split up. Free games tend to have more end
> users than commercial games.
> As for list feedback and comments that is typical for the list. It has
> just been my personal experience people here like to do things
> anonymously rather than speak up and be a more active member such as
> giving feedback and chat. I've trolled through the membership lists
> before and I have seen people in there who have never once asked one
> question or sent one responce to the list. All I can guess is they are
> the quiet type who just want to read, but not reply or be more active in
> decision making.
>
>
> Che wrote:
>>   Well, perhaps two main categories would work best, so we don't get into
>> fragmenting everything down into sub groups too much given the limited
>> amount of games we have available.
>>     Perhaps folks could nominate games for two categories, commercial 
>> games
>> and beta/free games together, or perhaps one category for all three.
>>   This way, games which cost money and therefore have a much smaller user
>> base won't be up against free games and betas that have over a thousand
>> players.
>>   Beyond that, I'm not sure we want the complication of sub categories 
>> such
>> as sports and strategy games at least for this initial run, especially 
>> given
>> the rather tepid response from members about the idea so far.  I think 
>> we've
>> had 3 or maybe 4 people respond to the thread, not exactly encouraging 
>> for
>> huge voter turnout.
>>   Feedback?
>>
>
>
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