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Maybe Logos can be annoying with his very loud pats on his own back. Maybe not. Doesn't bother me, personally, but I can see how it would annoy others.
The fact of the matter is though, that text games are a very narrow niche in the gaming community. We're not a dying breed by any stretch of the imagination, but we are - an odd duck when it comes to the world of "games."
There are people out there in the "rest of the world" who don't know that text games exist. Some of those people don't care. Some don't know that the opportunity to care exists, but would care if it was pointed out to them.
Achaea's good fortune and money spent on promotions and efforts in public relations gets the word out to the "might play if I knew it existed" population that these games exist.
Sure, it draws attention to their game - and well it should! But not everyone who "might play if I knew it existed" will like that particular game after giving it a try. And some of THOSE people will think - hm. This game exists, and oh what's that "VOTE" button on their website? And click just to see what else is out there. And then - THEN! Another game gets a visitor from someone who "might play if I knew it existed."
One successful commercial game drawing attention to the text-game community can only be a GOOD thing, and so I applaud the efforts of anyone who is willing to go to bat for the genre in such a public way, and I feel they deserve to pat themselves on the back and tell everyone "Hey lookie what I did!"
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