"The Real Game Awards" requires pay to vote, does this look legit or like a scam?
(www.therealgameawards.com)
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Essentially so. It is a practical solution to the problem of vote botting. But the pay to vote implementation makes it impossible to tell from the outside if the intent is a fair award show, or just a grift to make some quick money. You have to base it on how much you trust the integrity of the show runners.
So in this particular case, the ridiculous price to vote ($1 is enough to verify ID through CC registration address and cover admin costs) and the fact I have never heard of these guys before makes the probability it's a scam way too high for me to consider supporting.
If you wanna do something like this right, you have to build a reputation as someone with integrity and history in the gaming community first, and if they can't be bothered to do that it's probably because they're just a grifter.
[Edit] finally dug through the about us section long enough to find out he's an old ScrewAttack contributor. So I have, in fact, heard of this guy before at least.
I'm pretty sure Craig's sidescrollers videos get posted here occasionally too. I would be pretty surprised if he was scamming.
That's fair enough, I have only incidental knowledge of sidescrollers through razorfist, not enough to trust them implicitly but that's personal choice for everyone.
I would say that someone being politically aligned with me doesn't preclude them from being dishonest or greedy, so I still have to maintain some healthy skepticism
I don't blame you for being skeptical. The reason I don't think he is scamming is because it would blow up everything else he does on youtube and whatnot. It would be a pretty small payout to destroy his credibility that he depends on for his "day job". He doesn't strike me as that short sighted.
The awards may end up being a shitshow because he doesn't know what he is doing, but it wouldn't be intentional.
If anything it's less scammy than "The Game Awards" or almost any other GameJourno (or any-Journo) stuff. It's up front, pay and get a vote.
I don't even know who were talking about, but has that ever stopped any other YouTuber?