Comments on: Eidos votes for Soul Bubbles in open ballot, Internet complains.

By: Lloytron

Lloytron — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:30:16 +0000

I don’t see the big deal at all. I’ve done the same in the past, pretty much any developer that cared about their game would do the same – and they do, in more ‘important’ polls. I put important in quotes, because its just about awards, not about saving the world or anything.

Any awards system in the world where the public votes has a large number of biased votes where people vote dishonestly. Case in point, John Sargeant.

BTW Sean, if Eidos publish a game then they do have guys internal working on it. If he was a shill then he’d be pushing something a bit bigger. I’d just chalk him down as one of the Eidos production team that worked on the game, nothing more.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:17:27 +0000

Sorry, since when did Eidos *develop* Soul Bubbles? And have you all noticed that the guy registered on the forum just to vote for Soul Bubbles, with the game’s title in BOLD and a little bit of text ostensibly justifying the vote, things which nobody else in the thread did?

Sorry, but the guy’s clearly a fucking shill, and Eidos deserve all the negative press they’re getting from this.

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:32:13 +0000

I agree that people should be allowed to vote for their own games. After all we allow politicians to vote for themselves. As Ben says it won’t have any drastic affect on the overall results.

If they were doing mutiple votes to deliberately try and affect the outcome then that would be a different matter.

Still, it’s one more piece of negative press for Eidos, who quickly seem to be turning into the sinister corporation that uses bribes and threats to get what it wants.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:08:32 +0000

If I made a game I’d vote for it. Unless it was rubbish.

Realistically one person shouldn’t be able to skew the results too much.

Eidos are lucky Soul Bubbles is a good game, otherwise I’d probably me more angry.

By: Allyn

Allyn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:58:33 +0000

You seriously don’t see the problem with someone from Eidos voting for an Eidos game? Really?

In the grand scheme of things it’s rather irrelevant – I’ve never even heard of the website before, as it happens – but come on, you’ve never heard the phrase conflict of interest before?