The Escapist Presents March Mayhem: Developers' Showdown 2008
- Thread starter Joe
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Congrats to Turbine!
Alot of the votes came from people outside of the Escapist community, Turbine even advertised the contest on their log-in console.REDPill357 said:
As appalled as I am that Turbine won (and believe me, I am deeply appalled), I give them kudos for getting into the spirit of the thing, mobilizing their fans and having some fun with it. Maybe next time we'll see some of that enthusiasm from the other devs.
I was going to jump into a ti raid about your statement, but I'll let you look at it one more time before I do...ingsoc said:
Enough time? Okay...here we go.
If you were part of the tournament at all you would see that the developers that actually got their communities into it (*points at Malygris for being correct on his part*) ended up doing the best. This is why ALL the #1 seeds lost! The bigger companies may sell a lot of games, but I honestly don't think they have the community support a smaller developer does. If you go back through, Double Fine lost to Valve, but only by a handful of votes and they were a #14 seed. How does that happen? You are only as strong as your community and Double Fine called their army, however small, to arms.
As for The Escapist "fixing" this tournament, I honestly don't think a respected site would do that. Not to mention it doesn't benefit anyone by doing so.
As for you thinking Harmonix sucks, well, that is your opinion but I think you'll find a lot more people who voted during the tournament to disagree with you. Personally I think Rock Band is a riot, regardless of how many little pukes think they can play the guitar now.
As for your comment about more stupid people being out there, I totally agree but thankfully only a couple have found this site.
