I think you read too much into the word just in my statement. I meant it as emphasis not as saying that it was all that Bgg was. I’ve used and do use Bgg to look up games and it has a fantastically thorough database. It’s still ugly and I hate using it because navigating is such a pain, but I do fully recognize it’s coverage is incredible and it provides some amount of useful tools.
No hard feelings or anything, I personally don’t find the problems of Bgg to worth it. And as such I’m glad an alternative with clean web design exists.
I love BGG, but it is almost quaintly antiquated. I first started up with ANR there, and loved the community when the game was first thriving. Glad I migrated here a bit over a year ago.
BGG does have a very outdated design, but it’s still functional. Too many people would object to any major change so it’s best to leave as-is. Also, I like the Netrunner community there, lots of good people to help new players and discuss new datapacks. You could always be insane as me and have accounts at every Netrunner site, CardgameDB, and BGG
Looks like it’s not running this year. Possibly because of fallout from the controversy last year. While it’s sad to see it go, can’t help but feel like we got revenge on them by killing their contest.
It could still be going on, just not started yet. I’m not sure I would participate after last year’s hostilities.
Except “them” was “us”. The problem was people making it into an “us vs them” by delineating “Serious board gamers” from “people on BGG just for Netrunner”, neglecting the fact that most people were interested in both. Killing a fan contest isn’t a good thing in any case, even if they were arbitrarily excluding Netrunners.
BGG has a lot of control on the boardgame marketplace. Vendors use it as a guide. How well a boardgame does in sales these days is very related to how well it does on BGG.
even if this competition was legit, does netrunner still deserve the accolades?
