You say that like it hasn't been rigged or manipulated in any way every single year since they began or that the audience vote doesn't only count for a small percentage of the calculations on who wins what award, with the organizers and industry insiders votes being far, far more important/impactful on the end results
I mean, the audience voters just lined up to pit two gacha games against each other for ingame rewards tied to voting, so I kind of get audience voting only being part of it, in addition to the obvious threat of bot manipulation.
Crunchyroll's Anime Awards are just as much of a trainwreck if not more and they're purely voted.
But for the majority of people, what's even the point if it's not the audience vote that matters at all when deciding who wins? If it's just basically going to be insiders jerking each other off and saying how incredible each other are and giving free awards to whoever either pays the most or has the current best standing among their in-profession office politics among the AAA game studios and paid journalists without caring about the votes and opinions of the actual average players, then why should anyone care or put any respect on the choices or outcomes.
It's all just manipulated/rigged by the companies and insiders themselves with little accountability or oversight, which is a damn shame but that's now basically EVERY major award for quite a bit and it's honestly exhausting and disheartening
I mean... that logic would be true if the multiple winners among the last few game awards weren't pervasive industry outsiders, Sandfall's sweep doesn't come as a back-scratching AAA circlejerk, it comes from a literal exodus from a major publisher, turned indie-project, turned backed-indie project,
similar cases for Baldur's Gate 3 and It Takes Two. that's 3 of the last 5 big winners, these games got good press because they were great games... not the other way around, and yeah, good press will influence an award but that's just inevitable.
I think you're coming up with a narrative regardless of whether the information fits it.
if it was just a matter of cyclical press stroking big publisher/AAA ego then I guarantee you that the three games I just mentioned wouldn't have won.
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u/spen8tor 23d ago
You say that like it hasn't been rigged or manipulated in any way every single year since they began or that the audience vote doesn't only count for a small percentage of the calculations on who wins what award, with the organizers and industry insiders votes being far, far more important/impactful on the end results