4 days, 10 hours

OK, so I now there have been more submissions to Giant Bomb than they had anticipated, and I know that they're working hard. This is not a post to complain, but I felt I had to write something about the time it takes for submissions to be approved.

As the title of this post says, I have submissions that have been pending for almost four and a half days at the time of this post. That may not be a very long time, and I'm sure that other people have submissions that have been pending even longer, but it got me thinking. Are there such a thing as low and high priority submissions? I would have to assume there are, especially as all the games I have submitted stuff for so far really aren't of a lot of interest to the mainstream audience. So, why do I submit information about games that a lot of people don't care about? Because I feel someone should, and I know a lot about them. Also, submitting things for the same games as a lot of other people means that you might end up spending time on writing stuff that never gets used.

I can think of a very obvious reason why some submissions would be considered of more interest than other submissions. Lets face it, Giant Bomb needs to make money. No money, no Giant Bomb. How do you make money from a website? You generate traffic. How do you generate traffic? You provide information that people are interested in. Are people that generally interested in adventure games that are 20 years old? No, they are not. It seems pretty simple, and that's because it is. Now, I don't know if they actually do consider some submissions to be more important, but I wouldn't blame them if they did.

My "problem" with the fact that I have submissions that have been pending for such a log time, however, is that I don't really feel like making any new submissions. I've written a few blurbs, a description or two, and a couple of articles, but what if all of those are rejected because they aren't considered good enough, or if they just not don't have the right tone? I'd like to know that before I spend more time writing stuff that may end up rejected. I can accept rejection, but I don't like wasting time.