EPTOn September 12 2011 11:37 Shockk wrote:
Sad to see the selection switched to pure random; I have to admit I'm a bit bummed out over that after putting at least some effort and personal passion into my entry. Then again it's perfectly reasonable considering the flood of entries and the overall quality of many (if not all) contributions; sound decision, and I'd probably have done the same after ~340 responses.
So - thanks once again for organizing such a cool contest, Serejai, and congrats to the winners.
If one of the winners (or anyone else with an Achron key to spare) reads this: I'd love to give this game a try, I really would. Except for my gratitude, which I'd offer in vast amounts, I believe I have a gift copy of Half Life 2 on my Steam account as well which I'd happily trade (in case anyone's interested).
Sad to see the selection switched to pure random; I have to admit I'm a bit bummed out over that after putting at least some effort and personal passion into my entry. Then again it's perfectly reasonable considering the flood of entries and the overall quality of many (if not all) contributions; sound decision, and I'd probably have done the same after ~340 responses.
So - thanks once again for organizing such a cool contest, Serejai, and congrats to the winners.
If one of the winners (or anyone else with an Achron key to spare) reads this: I'd love to give this game a try, I really would. Except for my gratitude, which I'd offer in vast amounts, I believe I have a gift copy of Half Life 2 on my Steam account as well which I'd happily trade (in case anyone's interested).
Yeah, the issue was that there were simply too many good comments to narrow it down. I spent about four hours on it and the best I was able to do was about 18 comments and I only had three keys to give out.
This was my first attempt giving out keys based on actual content and it didn't work. I suppose that type of thing works better for an art contest or something, but it's really rough with a written entry contest (and probably why big name gaming websites stick to the "post in this thread" or "signup here" methods when they hold contests).
Had I picked winners people would still complain because it's all subjective and they would think their answers were better than what I picked. It's pretty much a lose/lose either way so I won't be attempting a content-based contest again unless I can figure out a non-subjective way to do so which doesn't block out people as well (for example art contests would be easier to judge, but also would exclude like 99% of TL).
