LogFAQs > #936638549

It's not that we WANT LoZ/FF7 to win. It's WHY they lose. It's happening not because of what Gamefaqs, or even gamers (not really) think is the best but because some tumblr/reddit forum decided to mess with things to get a FotM game/character to win.

Like, imagine you decided to poll your local area as to what the 'best game' of all time was. You might think game X is the best, but game Y has some serious pros and cons. Games A, B, and C were also popular but you don't think they really stand a chance. So you set up your polling booth and wait. Times goes by and people come by to vote. As expected X and Y are in the lead with A, B, and C trailing. Then, suddenly, game D pops up. Game D only came out a few weeks ago and, while it has its merits, it's got problems and issues to and is simply REALLY new. Okay. No surprise people would vote for a new game that's good, right? Except people keep voting for game D. More and more until it wins.

This leaves you baffled. You do some research and find out that game D has a local fanclub who decided to go down to the supermarket and pay people a buck to vote for D as well as reach out to their various groups to rally votes. While they technically didn't cheat their meddling means that, instead of getting an opinion of what gamers and the common man think is the best game, you just got THEIR opinion.

And it shows. Because next year you do the poll again. X and Y are in the lead again with A, B, and C following and D isn't even freaking mentioned. Because after it's fifteen minutes of fame were up no one cared anymore. But then you notice game E starting to rise up and it's the exact same story. The exact club may be different, but they're doing the exact same thing. Maybe a different market, maybe it's brownies instead of money, but it's the same story in the end. Game E wins and you just KNOW that, next year, game F will win and E won't even be a memory if you don't do something to stop this meddling.

Of course, when you finally DO develop a solution, games X and Y dominate because, shockingly, they were good games people remembered and kept playing well after they were 'new' because they were high quality and memorable while D, E, and F, while decent, were simply flash-in-the-pan titles if even that.

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