Decay of voting results?

[Snowstalker]

Over the last few years, most awards (especially new games) seem to be biased towards new games in the eventual results; for instance, NSMB beat the more influential and arguably larger Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World for the title of Best Platformer, and Best Game usually goes to the newest 2 platformers plus TTYD.

 

[New Super Mario]

Well yes, but that's because if the games are older, it's more likely people haven't played them yet, so they only vote for the the ones they have played

 

[Koopayoshi]

Maybe you should give them a background of each game so they just don't say the games that they've played, maybe another game they would like to try.

 

[ralphfan]

We've looked into that and may try it next year. It will take a lot of work, but I believe Polldaddy's features allow it.