Wargamer opens 2002 games poll

[Kevin14]

Originally posted by rc51
LOL u notice you have to give them your e mail addy first.
Sry but they aint gettin it to much spam as it is.

Same reason here

[poopster]

Thank you for your feedback.  

We discovered that Aces High and one other title we had previously
included were not, in fact, published in 2002 at all, which excludes
them from our Best of the Year awards for that year.  It would be a bit
like nominating a movie released in 2000 for the 2003 Oscars -- our goal
is to have our readers vote on the best game of a particular year, not
the best games of all times, which would need to include a much larger
list to be all-inclusive and fair.
 
While it sounds like you are a hard core fan of the game and
disappointed, this is an award selection for the best titles published
ONLY in 2002 and thus any that do not fit that category cannot be
considered out of fairness to the system, present, past, and future.

We apologize for any inconvenience that has resulted due to our
oversight.  Aces High should not have been included in the list in the
first place and was thus removed as soon as we caught it.

Sincerely,

Mario Kroll
CEO, Publisher, and
VP of Marketing and Business Development
The Wargamer Network
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destination alongside such fine websites as StarWars.com, The Onion, and
National Public Radio.
 
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YOU MIGHT TAKE A LOOK AT THE RALEIGH/DURHAM LOCATION AS TO WHY ACES HIGH WAS REMOVED

[Paxil]

Funny. A new version of AH was just published recently.

[WldThing]

Thats true Paxil...

[eddiek]

Funny thing about the "release"of WBIII is that it is the same thing available via free download for a couple years now.
"New"?  Not hardly.  Available via a different medium, i.e. retail stores, but NOT new by any means.
To be fair, neither WBIII and AH should not be on the list, since both have been out a couple years now, with periodic updates to both sims.

[Creamo]

Yikes fellas, it's a cool website and just a 'poll' of sorts. No sense getting all excited and sending hate mail on a simple oversite, even though their correction was equally as silly. Your loyalty to AH is a bit much as well to get this bent over nothing.

I really didn't know how bad simulation enthusiasts had it last year till I read the choices. But Feb is a month off, and then the goodness will be released.

[Vulcan]

Screw you Creamo... I smell a lynch mob brewing...

SOMEONE GIT A ROPE!

[Creamo]

Don’t lynch me for pointing out how rabid and impractical the Anal High Spirit Squad can become, but to be fair, we all like our main pastime Sim here with HTC. It’s understandable somewhat. And the AHSS were obviously unintentionally baited by the Wargamer editors by taking seemingly little effort to research this ‘Simulation of the Year Award' criteria. Maybe none at all it seems.

Still, speaking of which, how much prestige will that little Wargamer graphic, indicating “Sim of The Year”, considering the clusterbang of additions, subtractions, and email apologies ever really signify?

Again, it’s not a big deal, other than a learning experience for the poor guys that run a cool website there.