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No Minecraft in the IGAs? BLAWARAWAWRGH

By Lawrence Sonntag | 29 November 2011 | 8 Comments   

I’ve seen a lot of surprised and confused comments at Minecraft’s complete omission from the Inside Gaming Awards this year. The reason for this is fairly direct – we considered it for awards last year. You might get mad at that for some valid reasons – the game wasn’t legitimately out at that point, after all.

The same arguments were brought up during deliberation of awards last year, and the compromise was that we would consider it for 2010 awards, but doing so would prohibit it from consideration in 2011. If it was up for awards again this year, that’d essentially allow it to double-dip, and set a scary precedent we want to avoid.

So there you have it. We still love Minecraft here at Machinima, but to be fair to everyone involved we’re not considering it for this year’s awards.

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8 Comments

  1. Posted by JGByron on 29 November 11 at 3:49pm

    Lawrence, thank you for using logic and reasoning. It seems to have disappeared.

    • Posted by Lawrence Sonntag on 29 November 11 at 11:26pm

      I’ll bathe in your praise but the decision wasn’t actually made by me. As I understand (and I could be wrong), Adam was the one pressing for the game to not be considered in the 2010 awards, and thus insisted that it not be in the 2011 awards.

  2. Posted by AKALMoumen on 29 November 11 at 5:36pm

    Will it be considered after the official release….. Because that technically means that its the actual game not the beta or demo or whatever…. Thus could it be considered for 2012?

    • Posted by CoreyClarkYC93 on 29 November 11 at 11:17pm

      Minecraft is still a growing game, development is most likely no-where near over.

    • Posted by Lawrence Sonntag on 29 November 11 at 11:25pm

      Nope. It had one shot for consideration and we used it up in 2010. To be fair, it won two awards that year, so it’s not like the game didn’t get its due.

  3. Posted by t3h sourcey on 29 November 11 at 11:47pm

    First Deus Ex:HR,now Minecraft.Well,I guess you guys are still learning how to choose the exact right nominees for your awards.
    It’s nice to see you back Lawrence,even though it’s for a short time ;)

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  5. Posted by DJ_Aldesso on 01 December 11 at 12:14am

    Lookin back at what Minecraft was last year and what it is now. there is not much that changed. A few new blocks, a few new mechanics. turnig the game into World of Warcraft. But other than that.

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