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General: 2006 Reader's Choice Award Results
Stradden
Managing EditorMember CommonPosts: 6,696
After over a month and two rounds of voting, the results are in. This year saw a pitched battle between CCP's EVE Online and World of Warcraft in a number of categories as more than 60,000 votes were cast in the nomination and final voting rounds.
Based on your votes, we released the names of the winners in each category. Each of the nominees represented one of the top vote getters in the preliminary round of voting. To qualify, a game must have received over 10% of the nomination vote.
The categories are:
- Favorite Graphics
- Favorite PvE
- Favorite
- Favorite Story
- Most Anticipated
- Favorite New Game
- Favorite Game
Special thanks go out to everyone who participated in both rounds of this year's voting!
You can read the Awards here.
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
Comments
Like everyone didn't see those results coming...
Of course, every other game company doesn't really care who MMORPG.com votes for, so how is this suprising? Eve was the only company I seen where the actual game posted on their website for everyone to come vote.
I don't see who would take this seriously anyways.
Why not make it next year where new accounts don't count towards the votes, and that an account had to be active within atleast the last 30 days to vote. Honestly though, I'm sure you enjoy the tons of throw away accounts that are created. Just makes your site look like it gets more hits.
There are a few reasons why this happened:
1. MMORPG.com got tons of nominations, but only nominated WoW and EVE. Why? I don't know, but its stupid as heck.
2. WoW sucks. Nobody playing WoW cares enough about the game to bother voting for it. And most WoWers know that the PvE sucks, so it didn't even win that.
Therefore, EVE won.
Please, MMORPG.com, let a few other games get nominated next time, at least to make it appear as if there was a fair poll
1. The latest expansion added a huge amount of PvE content, and by extending the voting past the expansion, MMORPG let that expansion affect the votes.
2. WoW PvE sucks. Since MMORPG.com refused to nominate a non-EVE game with better PvE in addition to WoW, EVE won by default.
By the time the restart came, the news article was off the front page and the thread on the topic in the EVE Online forums was unstickied and a few dozen pages back.
I think the meaning of this is quite simply that either WoW sucks donkey balls (it does), or that the only people who are playing WoW don't care enough to vote.
p.s. this site needs like an editers choice awards because readers choices are always limited to the readers fav games
I'm Here. I'm Awesome. Get Used To It.
P.S. If I haven't said it enough already, PLEASE ADD MORE GAMES TO THE VOTE NEXT TIME, and SHOW 1ST/2ND/3RD/4TH/ETC PLACE so that even if one game sweeps the vote, all the other votes are still meaningful.
EEEEEEEEEEK!! EVE fanboi invasion. I agree that EVE Online is a decent game, but in NO way I can agree with the results. ''Best PvE: EVE Online (huh?)''
Although, we should not take this Choice Award too seriously. It is only based on fanboi votes.
The vote *actually* said that "EVE PvE is better than WoW PvE", which is probably true. It did not say that EVE PvE was the best, because no other games were in the voting
I'm an self-professed EVE fanatic and I voted for EQ2 in the nominations because the sheer variety of different PVE in that game (and quality of it) dwarfs both EVE and WoW. But it didn't make it past the first stage. I'm glad that EVE won it though because the last thing WoW deserves is an award for mediocrity.
Eve isn't for everybody, but we who like it, like it alot.
Cheers!
Eve Did, Ryzom Did, wow had a large number of postings on the forums (User made)... If you look, most of the games rallied to the cause.
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"Anyone posting on this forum is not an average user, and there for any opinions about the game are going to be overly critical compared to an average users opinions." - Me
"No, your wrong.." - Random user #123
"Hello person posting on a site specifically for MMO's in a thread on a sub forum specifically for a particular game talking about meta features and making comparisons to other titles in the genre, and their meta features.
How are you?" -Me
don't get me wrong, im not a eve fanboi, i have played it for quite some time, but i cast my vote for wow on this "best pve"
What i do know is the fact that EVE is a very solid pvp game, some say the best around.
But what i do know aswell, since i have played eve-online, that there are a LOT, and i mean a REAL LOT who immensly enjoy the pve eve-online brings. its traderoutes, mining, pirate hunting, scouting belts, crafting ships etc etc.
Many people like that, and its safe to say more people playing eve-online are geared towards 0.5 > and will never set a foot in low-sec space.
myself, i would have voted EQ2 if the option was there, but it wasnt ;(
I feel happy as EvE Online won most of the category but for PvE its out of the bedtime story.. I voted for EQ2 and turns out the EvE Online got it! *fainted* i disagree on that result.
All canceled. Waiting on Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning.
if some people now hear of a certain game because it won such a voted award and they try it out and enjoy it. what's wrong with it? if they don't enjoy it - they gave it atleast a try.
if they fell for the assumption that readers choice awards are NOT fan-boy contests, hopefully they know it now.
does this award change something on the game itself? or the gaming experience? either of a game that won, was nominee in the final round or didn't even got nominated?
if people think now that "their" game sucks because it didn't won such an award though they enjoy playing it - they seem to play it for the wrong reason. the same goes for the people who think now: "our" game won - it is uber. don't play games because it has a "won this and this award then and then"-sticker on the box, play them because you enjoy them.
as i said - awards are for entertainment purposes. it's for the thrill of the audience - it's for the "will my favorite win?" - no matter if it's a reader's choice or a editor's choice award.
and not to forget - most if not all awards don't celebrate those who won the award, they celebrate those who "sponsor" it. does it matter that EVE online "won" this year? does it matter that WoW "lost" this year? imho not - the only thing that really matters is - was mmorpg.com able to entertain its community? did you spend time because of this award on the webpage, the forums? was the url of the page spread because of the award?
so don't take this (and every other) award to serious - it's entertainment. you can't value entertainment in right and wrong - only in entertaining or not.
Funny how most of the player written reviews say how boring EVE is.
Yet those few die hards keep trying to hack the voting in an effort to prove how awsome they are......again.
Kind of reminds me of the earlier days of SWG, when everyone would sit in a cantina with nothing to do and talk about how awsome the game was and how World of Warcraft will never make it.
Sorry to all the EVE fanbois. I'm still not going to play your game.
Favorite mmorpg's:
SWG
WoW
Edit: If Blizzard asked their playerbase to vote, it's pretty obvious who would actually win.
I always find it amusing to those who come on here and knock the results. If your game didn't win, its because you as the players either don't care about voting or don't care to motivate others to come and vote. Eve players care about their game and do in the last two years by coming out to vote.
Eve players came and voted, it simple, don't cry about why your game didn't win.