This is an OUTRAGE (The EGM and MTV top 15 games)

barcodeplane

I was just sitting down and reading my new issue of EGM that had came in the mail today, and I saw something so absolutely shocking.

Before I get to that...let's rewind back a little ways...Do you remember that poll where you could vote as many times as you liked for the game (series) you thought had the most impact of this console generation?

Well...I seem to remember all of us (well many of us) voting many times and even Jdogg wrote a program where we could vote fast without having to go to the webpage. I also seem to remember a race against the "Halo" people for #1 (we had more votes then they did at the end from the stats it seemed) (even though Halo isn't a series [yet] there is only one).

Anyways....back to now. I open up the page and see a DDR character, so I flip towards the front and you know what game I see? frick ZELDA. I'll admit Zelda was good and all, but of this console generation? Wait...that's irrelevant. I seem to remember us VOTING OUR ASSES OFF FOR DDR. #2 Game? Halo. #3? The Sims. WHERE IS DDR?

Last. frick 15th.

Can we say someone switched around 15th and 1st place?

Hmm?

Doesn't this seem a little odd to you guys too?

Uhh yeah...Let's discuss.
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001 MadStepz · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 8:53 pm Post subject:

have you thought about the possiblity that there are forums of other games where ppl voted their asses off too?

barcodeplane · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 8:59 pm Post subject:

The statistics showed WE we ahead of Halo at the end of the voting. And I don't think there are forums voting their asses off for: NBA Street (13),WWE Smackdown/ Def Jam Vendetta (12), or theMadden Series(9).

ALL of which ranked higher then DDR which got the lowest spot, 15.
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MTV sucks. Don't listen to them.

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JeffreyAtW · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jul 2002 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Where is Halo if they voted the night away? Maybe MTV realized that there was more than one vote per IP address and decided to take away the "voting more than once" option.

Or maybe they're SMARTER than you think they are and didn't allow voting programs and the like.
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barcodeplane · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 9:29 pm Post subject:

Uhh Jeff, I am too lazy myself to dig through topics to find the topic about this and the link, but the people on the Halo board were the ones who ORIGINALLY started using programs to autovote (Jdogg just wrote a better and faster one, and we had more people running them so we caught up) so we weren't the only board doing it.
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JeffreyAtW · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jul 2002 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

No, that's not what I mean. Tell me, where is Halo on the top 15? I know that they, along with other game communities, used these auto-vote programs. Maybe those votes weren't counted all across the board. But that's why I want to know. Maybe they were with Halo and not with DDR.
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Spike · Administrator Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Denver

Actually, the entire thing was pretty shady.

This is my understanding of what happened:

JDogg wrote a program, so did the Halo people. Ours was somehow stopped, and I believe the Halo one wasn't. So JDogg wrote another one. Then the polls stopped and so ours stopped. Then they reopened the polls. Then closed them. But the Halo program still worked.

Either way, who really cares? DDR is not as mainstream as Halo (or many other games) and so you can't expect it to get the number of votes to get #1 even in a fair voting process.
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Nikorasu · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject:

While I agree that DDR should have been higher than #15 (just opinion) I was more outraged that Final Fantasy was only #4. Some punk game like Halo gets more credit with one title than a best-selling series that is unquestionably better than even Zelda. But as far as DDR goes, voting more than once really negates the purpose of a poll because the method that was used didn't show which game was more popular, it only showed which game had the craziest fans who were better at cheating.
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barcodeplane · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject:

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DJ sephi spin those discs · Trick Member Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Location: Austin, TX

wait, Zelda getting #1 is bad HOW?
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DJ sephi spin those discs · Trick Member Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Location: Austin, TX

not to me. i think it is in the top 10 greatest games in this console generation.
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.a · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jun 2002

Do you realize that being #15 still means it beats out however many thousands of games that weren't nominated?

DDRJeffP · Trick Member Joined: 28 Apr 2003

Uh, we were voting for the MTV video game of the year, not the EGM video game of the year.

discobiscuits · Trick Member Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: phoenix

who cares that ddr got rank #15, it doesnt mean anything. its freaking Mtv man no offense. Isn't MTV owned by Viacom, who owns SpikeTV, which did the scrubbish VGAs? is true. k thx.

Syxx · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland

MTV will make the game look dumb anyway. =P
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