It is to Blizzard.
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After WoW’s much-deserved win at the awards, maybe now the players in here who voted for other MMORPGs (like Final fantasy XIV) because of their dislike of BfA, not because they genuinely enjoy the other MMORPGs, will see that their pettiness cannot stop the reality that most gamers still love World of Warcraft, despite some of its flaws in BfA.
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Bethesda sold more than just copies of Fallout 76 
Go Warcraft Team!
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That sounds like the definition of personal…
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So a blue shows up to tell us about this craptastic crap and wont show up to tell us how they are fixing the game…
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Grats WoW!
Winner winner chicken dinner
Keep on burnin trees. It wins awards.
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So all the whining and hating and insulting in this thread was all for naught.
Congratulations WoW!!
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They bought that win, and anyone that believes they didn’t are the people that enable these terrible gaming practices.
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You cannot buy a win that is 100% voted for by the players. It is not like the Oscars.
I personally voted for them as did at least four of my friends. The simple truth is that the other options are not that great. WoW has issues, but none of the competition is any better(mostly a lot worse).
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This exactly!
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I wonder if a lot of the votes where like my kid. Who is a die hard Blizzard fan started playing when he was six years old blows his entire monthly allowance on and in the game. He voted on the hour every hour from the start over and over. Heck he stayed up straight three days in a row tired as all heck, until I told him get some sleep or I will turn the internet off.
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WoW won as expected! Now if only these forum trolls could go pollute some other game
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The only cogent reason I can think of for BFA winning any award voted on ‘strictly’ by fan choice is that wow still has more name brand popularity than any other game of its genre. Its the Chinese Army Effect. On any halfway level battlefield between the Chinese Army and literally anyone else, the Chinese will overwhelm the opposition. Not because they are that good, but because they are that many.
Both FFXIV and ESO have arguably better content than BFA, but BFA wins because there are still so so many ‘fans’ compared to the other entrants. Strength in numbers does not necessarily equate to acceptable quality. What it does speak to is a severe lack of competition in this space. Sadly that lack of competition is WHY BFA is so bad.
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Great point. I also would absolutely not discount the fact that a win could be influenced by a powerful company. Are these verified independently? I can’t find anything other than a bunch of rules about how they can stop the vote at any point if they feel it’s been tampered with, but nothing about any outside oversight of the process. Don’t most award shows have the results verified independently?
I’m actually somewhat surprised WoW took it. Given the overwhelmingly negative attitude the community has, even compared to other xpacs, it was WoW’s award to lose. I’m guessing name recognition helped it win. 2019 should be interesting if both retail WoW and classic WoW get nominated.
I don’t think anyone here is shocked… and we all know that this “open based voting” was the equivalent of good ole donald duck taking office. Doesn’t add up.
It’s because most of the players that love BFA are busy playing it vs going to the GD forum hateing it which is very small amounts of people that don’t like BFA.
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Pretty sure the taping was done weeks ago, as well as the decisions on who won what. The “voting” was just to drive traffic to their site and promote the advertisers.
But, you know… tv is magic, or something, and it’s legit.
WCIII is the last Blizzard product I would actually feel compelled to vote for.
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Yeah! Hey Blizzard, you can be proud of this award, voted on by people who could vote multiple times for you and with multiple accounts! Great victory there! Great system!
But hey, when people dislike-bomb stuff it’s bad, yet when people multi-vote, it’s fine. Good ole double standards.
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