Free copy of Noire

"What matters is you're trying and that should be commended."

Nope.

If you can't see the difference - Mafia/Civ site was buying attention, people entered voted whatever they found deserved a vote and got a game. This guy is BUYING VOTES meaning he buys people going on the site and voting for HIS GAME. And please don't tell me all that crap about poor indie devs needing votes considering that desura is full of actual good games made by other indie devs, ones who did real good job on their games and don't need to BUY votes. Suddenly you are treating this guy like he is the only indie on the contest, well he is not and buying votes is despicable and he deserves to have his game removed from the contest. Also trying is enough to show you are not a quitter but not to be set as top 100 indie dev (seriously go on desura and have a look what they have there and how many choices you have to support indie devs who spent their time and money to make GOOD games)

It is VERY different. The other example was using an incentive to move people to vote, but made no attempt to sway what the people voted for. Even if somebody made 'junk votes' (disinterested random clicking), at least they would be somewhat random and would be dispersed across the contenders as a kind of 'white noise', with the increase in genuine votes smothering them by comparison.

In a contest where contenders are vying to come out on top based on their merits, you are honestly saying that influencing votes by offering material incentive is to be commended?
Do you really see nothing wrong with this?

Let's try this on a different subject. What if athletes offered incentives to judges for adding a +2 to the scores they were going to give? Or for knocking additional seconds off the recorded timer? Or for overlooking the use of certain banned substances? Should it still be commended?

I am not trying to say my name is any better or unique but with a name like that, I shouldn't be judging other game companies by their name. At least they develop something and all he does is just throw hate at them.

We're considering this option too. Don't worry.

Reasons for the hate in this topic. And technically "vote to get" = buying.
I understand that some people might like it but I refuse to believe it's second best game on the list, sorry (imho there are at least 5 titles deserving to win more than this).

Thank you for your kind and truthful words. Tt's very nice to read words from someone with an actual understanding not just hating the whole world as it is :)

So if this is canvassing for a vote, why isn't the game's giveaway separate from the voting process? You have to vote, to get a copy. As in - you cannot simply get a free "promotional copy" of the game. This is not a promotion. This is a way for them to win the awards by getting some guaranteed votes.

Hey, how interesting. You're using the same broken English as the OP, have a Steam account that was made on the 20th of September, have the OP in your friends list (and only 8 others), and have only bundle games, games from free promotions, or games that were so heavily discounted that the total cost of your account was below 20, maybe 25 bucks.

Isn't that curious? Hmm.

Good job yet again ignoring every single point I raise. You are paying people to vote for you, plain and simple. Me not being a games dev. has nothing, 0%, nada, zilch to do with the points I raise, so don't bother trying to attack my credibility like that.

Also, you have still not answered the question of if you get a good ranking, whether or not you will be using that fact in promotional material. And now you say "lolol sorry didn't read your post" to avoid answering what I asked - if all you want is some promotion for your game, and to get noticed, then why don't you just post about your game here, and notify people about the currently running voting thing, without any form of giveaway?

And here's two other questions I am sure you'll ignore: can people just get a free copy of the game, without having to vote? And what work have you done on the game since that early look in the older thread the other guy linked to?

Devs. (and I use the term loosely) like you deserve nothing from gamers, other than disrespect and disdain.

Good God, just stop trying to defend yourself already.

The fact that you even admit to not read his entire post shows truly how little you are paying attention and understanding what is being directed towards you.

No where does that sound like he 'made lots of games and are the best game dev in the world' , perhaps more like you do not know the principles you need to have to be one, and do it right.

How can you not see the fact that coming onto a forum and in a few words, ask for others' votes, without even asking beforehand for them to take a look at the game and help by voting if you like it enough is very shady, totally unfair to those who deserve votes, and lowers your reputation as a developer?

'Understand English' I'm not even going to comment towards that one. Think about this, maybe if you used English a bit more structured in the OP, had a free demo download to offer for anyone to try, and then kindly ask for others to help vote, this thread would be much much more well received. You know, then maybe the votes you get would actually be genuine, from actual fans of your game.