I’m really shocked by many of the responses on this thread. I wonder how the author would feel to read them all–both the criticisms that their writing is undeserving of an award and also that they’re only a finalist because of “networking.”
I guess no one cared enough about how much they hated our past finalists? Certainly all of them are games that weren’t hugely popular on our forums. I guess it was just a gentler kinder time when we could just say “congratulations” or nothing and move on.