So I was looking around and this article from Darth Hater made me jump in my chair. What!?! How is it possible that Swtor wins any sort of award? With the poor subscriptions performance, the bad reviews, the firings at Bioware. How is it possible for it to win anything?
So I went over to the Game Developers Choice Online Award website and looked at the categories, the rules and the advisory comittee to see if I could figure it out….
and I can’t.
I had written this really long post as to why but I’ll leave it up to everyone to make their own mind. I’ll just say that any game that lost that many subscribers and had to fire so many of its own employees should not receive the Best New Online Game award.
The answer is pretty obvious I think. The categories they won were new things. They just had a weak class to compare themselves against.
Remember that these are developer awards, not popularity contests. SWTOR did a lot of technical things right. They hosed themselves in other areas, but SWTOR, technologically speaking, was a pretty amazing game. Fun, in it’s own way, too.
hellyea, that should have gone to CastleVille…
Look at the competition, and tell me who should’ve won. I’d vote for swtor, even if I do not play it anymore
Pretty easy answer to that question, IMO: the games that TOR was competing against, in nearly all categores, were that much worse than TOR.
Graphics award? Easy when you’re competing with 2d Zynga games. The only one I really disagree with is the technology one; I don’t know that any of them deserve that.