i know they arent taking the glory for themselves. i know its not going to win because its a staff members map, its going to win because the staff members are extremely well known and have more friends on the site that will be like "hey this is my friends map, +1 vote" it was never a comment against anyone in specific, it was against the fact that the site allows its staff to participate in their own hosted awards (which is why i posted the southpark video). it would be a lot better if they added their own thing that was called "Staff map of the week" (similar award to employee of the month) or something.
Marcass, just shut up. I am your personal friend and even I think you are just making a fool of yourself, people dont vote for a map because it is by staff, or even by your friends. People vote for a map because they had a good time playing it, and find it is a good map, not because they are friends with the author. As for me, I could care less as to who made the maps, I think solely of how the map works, not who made them. Also: I understand voting for your own map, but I also understand that it is selfish and desperate. This is from a friend, Marcass. Get your act together.
i disagree. i think there is a lot of people that would vote for a map just because it was made by their friend. And what a coincidence, i voted for my map, because i had a good time on it and i found that it was a good map. I am not making a fool of myself by bringing up somethign i disagree on. I just dont think staff should be able to participate in their own contests. (and im not saying that so that my map would have more of a chance, im saying that because its what i really think).
I may have also voted for my own map, I don't really play enough Halo to even know what the others are though. /me ashamed.
Lol.. dont be ashamed, i would change my vote to yours if i could.. becuase it pissed me off so much i had to play it until i beat it.. (SOooo much fun)
The only part Staff plays a role in this whole process is posting the threads and sticking the maps that win. We aren't handing out the rewards ourselves. The community is. We don't decide who wins this. The community does. Your little southpark video had little to no use in this argument because he was the one giving the awards to himself, not the congregation.
i know that, hence what i said in reply to sugar's comment. i still disagree with staff participating in a contest that they host. im done typing the same thing over and over, no one seems to understand what im trying to say.
Does this argument really need to continue? While a bit selfish, voting for your own map is acceptable in my opinion. Also, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever why the staff should not be able to participate in FHF. They make maps, and they have just as good a chance of getting them recognized as anyone else. If we could move away from this stupid argument it would be great.
Honestly, the whole argument can be summed up by Psychoduck's comment above, Should the community want a staff member's map to be included, so be it, the COMMUNITY voted for it.
Staff shouldn't win contests that give nothing but bragging rights. Just like marathon runners shouldn't be allowed to be able to participate in charity walks and world class poker players can't play cards with their families. That's just the rules.
Wow, horrible example [Insert Smiley Face]. Here is my 2 cent opinion: Voting on your own map is selfish, but okay to do, you shouldn't be hung for it. I feel many members of the community can draw just as many votes as the staff can, and not just loyals. But even then, people don't just vote on a map because a friend made it, they do because they have probably played that one the most. For example, I voted Phantom by Soul Slasher X because I liked the map and had played on it more than any of the others, so I knew it best. I had watched it be built, so I had an attachment to the map from the beginning. Overall, any popular vote is going to be a popularity contest, and here both map and creator will play a role. Politicians try to get people to like them and vote for them, do you think it will be any different on a smaller scale? I am excited to see who the winners will be; hopefully not everyone though, no matter how heartless that may sound.
That was a joke... I was making fun of how stupid that opinion is. My point was that there should be no reason staff can't win these.
Going case-in-point with what Shoe said, I voted on Bioshock simply because it was the one I had played more than the others and I knew it to be a good map. I don't even notice if it's a staff-made map more than half the time. It was either Bioshock or Cubeskew 2, but I ****ing hate Cubeskew and want to bash my head into a wall every time I make an attempt at it. Even worse, I keep trying! Why?! Damn you Cubeskew 2! Damn youuuuussss!
Well since I sparked the fire, I guess it's only fitting that I extinguish it as well. Argument over. Discussion returns to why you like the map you voted for Well, if you really want to continue because you have, like, the most clever comeback ever. Please, feel free to post it regardless of what I just said. You'll now receive an infraction for it, but seriously, your comeback is probably really good.
I've never seen so much hate haha. Please. Let's let by gones be by gones. I respect peoples opinions but try not to knock each other down about it. I've been through this once before and it gets ugly. In fact it's already gotten ugly. Just vote and grow up. And it IS the internetz ya know
Phantom is one of the better maps on Forge Hub. I don't see why more people haven't voted for it. It definitely has original ideas implemented in the map, and it has a very aesthetically pleasing painting in the middle. The map plays extremely well even though it is geared more towards aesthetics than gameplay, in my opinion.
It wasn't quite towards gameplay, i must say, but personally I think it looks... cool. I think it is the fact some people don't get nostalgia. Anyway, my votes for Bioshock cuz it is ossim and has little sister holes.