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The winners of the 2012 Engadget Awards -- Readers' Choice
...And the results are in! We asked for your favorite tech picks from 2012 and you answered. Readers (and no doubt some manufacturers) spread the word, helping us reach a total of more than 280,000 votes. Some winners were obvious picks: the Tesla Model S took home top honors in the transportation category, with 25.9 percent of the vote, and the Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina display won for best laptop -- though not without some stiff competition from the Razer Blade. Other winners were upsets, as you'll see below the break. Click through for the full results across 15 categories, then check back tomorrow, when we'll post our Editors' Choice champions.
The overwhelming power of community
"Without you, none of this would be possible!" While this saying is true for most things in the entertainment industry, it's mandatory for MMOs. A single-player game can make that initial retail box sale and never worry about keeping anyone happy after that, if they don't want to. Sure, most single-player game developers understand that they want their customers to be happy in case there's a sequel or future downloadable content, but for the most part, they can do alright with a relatively low maintenance developer-community relationship. Of course this isn't true at all for MMOs. The community makes an MMO. You can have the most immersive, gorgeous game with the perfect PvP and roleplaying capacities, but it still needs to appeal directly to a community. It doesn't matter what community, but it just needs to have a role and find that niche with people who are looking for that specific itch to be scratched. This isn't going to happen with advertising alone.
Massively Reader's and Staff Choice Awards results for 2009
Not only are the results in for our 2009 Reader's Choice Awards, but we've also compiled our own list of winners according to what we at Massively think should win in each category. This year's vote turned into something quite interesting, we must admit. Instead of being a direct "reader's choice", it seems to be much more of a popularity contest among the fans of the largest games. This made many of you quite angry when Runes of Magic dominated every category literally overnight. Some studios created contests to get their players to vote in the poll, most added a link to the awards on Twitter or Facebook, but the Runes of Magic team did everything from front page placement of the awards link to regular in-game announcements prompting fans to vote. Now that's how you win a vote. Especially when you have millions of players. Hand-in-hand with this, there have been reports of exploits on the polls involving a simple cookie clearing (although the site designers promise that an exploit through clearing cookies alone is not possible). Even if we assume that the exploit is true, this whole thing shows who has the fans that are most dedicated to supporting their favorite game. There's nothing wrong with that. So we're still going to show you the results as voted by the fans, and the results of our own staff poll. Follow along after the jump for the complete run-down.
CoX up for Reader's Choice nomination
Like City of Heroes? Love City of Villains? Want to show your support for them? Then cast your votes in MMORPG.com's 2007 Reader's Choice Awards. NCsoft's CoX line was nominated for Most Improved Game of the Year, Best Genre Other than Fantasy, and Best Game of the Year. You can also vote for it in the Favorite Pay to Play, Best Graphics, and Favorite Game Company categories.If you'd like to discuss the nominations, or share the "squee-riffic" feeling with your friends and the developers, head on over to the official forums and let them know your opinion. Don't forget, though, that you only have until December 30th to vote. So enjoy the game, folks, and lets keep those votes coming.
