Happy February day, fellow denizens.
I'm not sure how many of you guys visit Gamespy, but recently they had a "Title Fight" feature where 64 games would duke it out in a voting system organized by brackets (much like any playoff system like... NCAA March Madness). For their Space Simulation category, they included Tie Fighter, X-Wing: Alliance, and several Wing Commander games as candidate. And, as you can probably guess from the subject line of this post, they neglected Freespace. I really liked some of the games they listed, especially Tie Fighter, but for them to completely spork Freespace 2, well, it was disconcerting.
However, Gamespy says that they're taking in "write-in" candidates for each game category, including Space Simulations. Freespace 2 still has a chance to shove its way back in, and looking at some of the games under consideration, it's a little proposterous that Freespace 2 was not listed.
Lets try to correct it!
http://www.forumplanet.com/titlefight/topic.asp?fid=7215&tid=1300524 and
http://www.forumplanet.com/gamespy/topic.asp?fid=1422&tid=1296353&p=27 are two threads on their forums concerning the issue.
The first thread should have all the instructions on writing in a candidate. You don't need to be verbose in your explanation. A quick message should do. Now, I don't know if Freespace 2 can go all the way. Still, we need to let them know that they dropped the big pickle by having a Freespaceless tournament! Is anyone else just as gobstopped as I am?
