Some of you may remember last year's Greatest Game Character poll on Gamespot. For those of you that don't I will just give a short summary: it was rife with cheating, spite-inspired votes, and gross abuse of Valve's standing in the videogames community. It turned into a joke before it was even over and in the end the travesty came to pass and.....Gordon Freeman was declared the winner. It was proven (with actual screenshots) at the time that there were mass amounts of cheating, which was obviously the only way a minor character like the one mentioned above was able to topple giants of game characters like Solid Snake, Link, and Mario.
Well, a similar poll just ended on GameFaqs and the winner was Link, a very deserving, even if somewhat predictable, outcome. Perhaps due to the low caliber of the poll there, no cheating (that I heard/read of anyway) occurred. Gordon Freeman was eliminated in one of the very early rounds by Tifa, which much more accurately reflects his standing in the videogame community. It took a whole year (take or leave a few months), but in the end justice prevailed. As far as I am concerned though, Gamespot's reputation (for allowing such an injustice to occur) as a credible videogame media greatly suffered and has yet to recover.
ps: I originally posted this in the General Games Discussion forum but it got closed because apparently it was off-topic there. So mods, if it's off-topic here too, please be kind enough and tell me where is it on-topic.
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