Record number of votes in the MMO of the Year 2013 audience voting
58,000 people have voted for their favorite games halfway through the voting period
Berlin – January 30th 2013
Online game magazine mmofacts.com along with main sponsor GameGenetics, the leading distributor of free-to-play online games, are announcing a record number of votes have been cast in the “MMO of the Year 2013” audience voting. Halfway through the voting period 58,000 people have voted for their favorite games, beating previous year’s record of 50,000. Players and judges are voting the winners of the prestigious award until February 15th, 2013 at http://www.mmooftheyear.com.
“The run on the audience voting has exceeded all expectations. Within two weeks voters from 158 countries have cast votes for 377 different titles, many coming from Latin America, a region that we have been supporting for the first time. At times there have been over 500 users voting at the same simultaneously. The overwhelming feedback on Facebook and Twitter is underlining ‘MMO of the Year 2013’s global impact,“ said Christian Justus, organizer of the award.
The jury voting is under way too. While players can freely vote for any game they want the jurors have to choose between the nominated titles, representing last year’s best new releases. In the end there will be two awards for each of the 21 categories featuring Browser, Download and Mobile MMOs, one from the jury and one from the audience.
Voting for “MMO of the Year 2013” ends on February 15th, 2013. The winners will be announced right afterwards at http://www.mmooftheyear.com.
The “MMO of the Year“ is supported by the main sponsoer GameGenetics, as well as GameFinder, HoneyTracks, InnoGames, upjers, Behrmann & Haertel Game Attorneys, Games-Career.com and others.
About the "MMO of the Year"
Browser, Download, Mobile - no matter what platform, the best online games are awarded the “MMO of the Year”. Counting more than half a million visitors and fifty thousand validated votes, last year's contest has been the biggest one so far. With the addition of Latin America, this year's numbers are expected to increase further. The “MMO of the Year” is produced by online games magazine mmofacts.com.
"MMO" stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Game, meaning online games with thousands of players in one and the same game world. Some of the popular MMOs sometimes have millions of registered users.
http://www.mmooftheyear.com
About GameGenetics
GameGenetics is a global leader in the aggregation and distribution of free-to-play online games. GameGenetics is supporting game developers and publishers to reach out to the world while offering its first-class game portfolio to traffic and media partners around the globe. GameGenetics is working together with all leading free-to-play publishers such as Kabam, Electronic Arts, Bigppoint and Ubisoft. Its portfolio currently contains about 350 high-quality browser and client games in over 30 languages. Media partners are Deutsche Telekom, Bild.de and Web.de in Germany, as well as partners in more than 20 countries. Using partner integrations and games ads ‘powered by GameGenetics’ the company is generating 20 billion ad impressions every month, leading to millions of game registrations.
Additional information is available at http://www.gamegenetics.com and on the GameGenetics distribution platform http://partner.popmog.com.
