March Mayhem 2012 Is Over, Valve Wins!

[omega 616]

I thought you had to you know, make games to win this competition

While I am not some weird march madness fanboy, I think it's not just about the games but about the company.

Like how does the company treat the customers? Do they use shitty DRM? Do they cut content out of games to sell as DLC? Do they make sequels with little to no change? Etc

 

[Madmanonfire]

I thought you had to you know, make games to win this competition

If these last two years are any indication, games are almost irrelevant. It's all about making customers happy by other means.
These types of contests seldom have a deserving winner, so there's little point complaining.

 

[Wolfram23]

What. BioWare got 2nd? After all that...?

And what has Valve done? CD Projekt Red should easily have squashed them in the 2nd round IMO.

Oh well.

 

[antipunt]

mai prize.. T_T

 

[Darknacht]

you are stupid? VALVe made Portal 2, steam, free games and VERY cheap new games!

VALVe is not the only one that distributes free games and VERY cheap new games, they aren't even the cheapest.
There are allot of devs I would I have liked to see win or at least get farther, but this is a contest about popularity not quality so its not surprising that Valve won.

 

[Scars Unseen]

VALVe made Portal 2

The only thing you mentioned that really applies to a competition of game developers. If this ere a competition of game distributors I'd put Valve in 2nd place, right after CD Projekt. User Friendly DRM < DRM Free.

 

[Evil Smurf]

so where is my badge for voting in all sections? hmmmmm?

 

[Something Amyss]

Valve wins! FATALITY!

Grats to all the winners, especially the lucky sod who won a free computer.

Though on this forums, is it any surprise Valve won?

Not a surprise, but it pisses me off. The company has made one good game, specifically a sequel and rehash of another in the last year. I loved Portal 2, but it is not the foundation for a winning company in this sort of contest in my eyes. Especially since they still utterly fail for the flaccid attempt at "episodic content".

Team Fortress 2 is their only game I have played consistently.

This is gaming. If Nintendo can ride off success of a handful of games for decades....

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Well Bethesda was my horse this year and that didn't work. So Bioware and Valve crushed my bracket at the end. Oh well. Maybe next year I'll win one of those prizes...

 

[.No.]

So for all the Bioware hated spewed on the forums, they still made it to the final round?

Huh. Either it truly is a vocal minority bashing on them all the time, or the hate spewed is a twisted form of love. Either way, Zeel must be greatly upset, wherever he is...


"No no no no no no no, not listening! They do not see what lies ahead, when Day 1 DLC kills us dead!!"

Whatever happened to Zeel anyway? i haven't seen him spewing his particular brand of vitriol in a while. Did his antics finally get him banned?
OT: I totally voted for Bioware through the whole contest, the ending to ME3 may have been bad, but 95% of the game was amazing. I just hope the DLC adds a little more closure. Also, not a huge PC gamer, so I haven't had much experience with Valve other than Portal.

Zeel finally got banned. Not for trolling here though. Someone(allegedly) set up a fake account-at giantbomb I think- and claimed to be him, attempting to get other people to troll as well as him. Then he was banned. What's funny is that the only reason he was pissed was because he didn't get to go out flaming.

 

[Nikolaz72]

So for all the Bioware hated spewed on the forums, they still made it to the final round?

Huh. Either it truly is a vocal minority bashing on them all the time, or the hate spewed is a twisted form of love. Either way, Zeel must be greatly upset, wherever he is...


"No no no no no no no, not listening! They do not see what lies ahead, when Day 1 DLC kills us dead!!"

Whatever happened to Zeel anyway? i haven't seen him spewing his particular brand of vitriol in a while. Did his antics finally get him banned?
OT: I totally voted for Bioware through the whole contest, the ending to ME3 may have been bad, but 95% of the game was amazing. I just hope the DLC adds a little more closure. Also, not a huge PC gamer, so I haven't had much experience with Valve other than Portal.

Zeel finally got banned. Not for trolling here though. Someone(allegedly) set up a fake account-at giantbomb I think- and claimed to be him, attempting to get other people to troll as well as him. Then he was banned. What's funny is that the only reason he was pissed was because he didn't get to go out flaming.

I think its pretty obvious the post on Giantbomb wasnt by him.... Not enough capslock.

 

[TimeLord]

Why Insomniac!? Why?

You make great games but every year you never even come close ;(

 

[C2Ultima]

Wait, I won a PubClub membership? Awesome!

In any case, Congratulations to Valve. I'm wondering if this was due to Portal 2, or more because of Steam.

 

[Ccx55]

Yes, everyone here voted for Valve because of Steam and Portal 2.

Not because of, you know, Counter Strike: Source, Left 4 dead series, Half Life series, Alien Swarm, Team Fortress 2 or the first Portal. Of course not for the upcoming Dota 2 and CS:GO either.

This is not a "game" contest. Valve does not equal Portal 2.
This is a developer contest, including everything the developer has done which relates to gaming.

That is why Valve won by a landslide.

 

[SlayerN]

Haven't been following this much for a few weeks, last I checked, Dice getting beat cost me my #2 spot, thought it was pretty much over after that... Wait I won something?

Thank you very much Escapist, and congratulations Valve. I always have fun with march mayhem best of luck to everyone next year.

 

[shintakie10]

So for all the Bioware hated spewed on the forums, they still made it to the final round?

Huh. Either it truly is a vocal minority bashing on them all the time, or the hate spewed is a twisted form of love. Either way, Zeel must be greatly upset, wherever he is...


"No no no no no no no, not listening! They do not see what lies ahead, when Day 1 DLC kills us dead!!"

Meh...Bioware skated by without any real competition anyway. The only actual fight was Double Fine because of all the goodwill gamers gave them. Every other round was either a landslide due to not enough interest or the backlash against the opponent was far higher than against Bioware. It was disturbin to see how people were actively votin against Mojang simply because they thought it was some affront to the medium that they won last year and Ubisoft has enough bad heat that they could cure cancer and people would still think they're evil.

Really though, March Madness doesn't really say much about anythin honestly. Relic makes it quite far every year despite havin subpar games simply because the 40k fanboys come out in force every single year. Valve could literally make it to the finals if they went a year and the only game they released was a flash game where you push back the release date of Half Life 3 over and over until eternity. Blizzard makes it consistently deep in when the only nonstarcraft 2 game they've released in the last...what...6 years now was a MMO.

Heck, this year was particularly dumb as Lucasarts beat Atlus. Seriously...Lucasfrigginarts. If that doesn't raise eyebrows I have no clue what would.

Meh though. Gratz to Valve. I enjoyed Portal 2 for the 5 hours it took to beat the game.