RDR2 was nominated for “labor of love”, a five year old sp game with an abandoned online component and no significant updates or dlc since release
I’d vote for Project Zomboid but that wasn’t even nominated. Steam Awards are just a joke / popularity contest.
Meanwhile Deep Rock Galactic gets multiple new events per year and has a super community focused dev team.
DRG already won on a previous year, I think. Steam rules are that a game can’t be renominated for a category they already won.
Kind of an odd rule. I suppose if it didn’t exist, Terraria would just win that category every year.
Except DRG was a nominee this year…
Ah, I was wrong. DRG has never won. It’s been nominated a number of times, though.
But didn’t Terraria have it’s last ever update 3 years ago?
All the awards are for games released in the last year, except labor of love, which is any game from anytime. (Unless I forgot about another award)
And Terraria’s upcoming 1.4.5 will be the last definitive final update this time. Until they announce 1.5.
That’s why it’s stupid to give incentives to people to vote. I hadn’t even heard of 90% of the games up for selection in the awards. But I sure as hell voted on every one, usually just picking a game I’d heard the name of, or one with a cool looking banner.
This right here is the exact reason Starfield won most innovative, and the same reason Hogwarts Legacy won best on Steam Deck. People who hadn’t played any of the games in the votes only voted on games they had heard of.
It was weird voting for a best on steam deck without owning a steam deck. Seems like it would have been easy to restrict that one to accounts that have been used on a deck. Same with the VR game vote
Mind as well limit it to only games in your library than.
Plenty of other ways to play something than for you to physically hold it in you hands. Maybe the played it a vrcade, friends house, rented one, etc.
This would cause other problems too. People will mostly vote for more popular games because more people own them… Realistically I don’t think there’s a way to do this that would actually be meaningful. In general I’ve started to place an extreme amount of distrust in ratings for games and movies because realistically I don’t care what the average person thinks of a piece of media… I care what I think, and aggregate measures like that don’t really give you a good impression of that. It seems more useful to find good curators and people with similar tastes (or tastes you understand so you can say “oh they liked this, but I don’t like that kind of stuff as much as them” or “oh they didn’t like this, but that stuff is more my jam than theirs”.
I have a ROG which is effectively a Windows Steam Deck, and I use the Deck compatibility checks to ensure that software will run adequately on the ROG. I actually did play Hogwarts Legacy quite a bit on the ROG during my vacation to the UK.
I wouldn’t restrict it to just Deck owners, as there are quite a number of us who own beefy handhelds that are not the Deck. At that point I would change the category to “Great on Handhelds”.
I just assume it’s based on who pays more and votes don’t even matter. Even if the votes matter, then awards never mattered unless I’m getting something out of it
Steam awards is just popular vote and memes, why did last of us get best soundtrack? Why did rdr2 get labor of love? Why did hogwarts win best on steam deck? Dont take awards seriously, they are just a bit of fun.
We were supposed to vote?
I voted for all those games lmao
I mean RDR2 certain looked like a labor of love
The award is meant for great continued development, content support and updates. But I can see the confusion from the award title if you don’t read the description.
Honestly, the whole user/community aspect of Steam is garbage. Discussion forums are just back and forth fights between people about random things like game issues without anyone trying to solve the actual issue. The screenshots/art whatever section is just softcore porn of the game characters and the main screenshots/art section that covers all games is just a hub for wallpaper engine crap.
The guides section is the worst. Its all just stupid meme shit like “How to start the game” or “how to walk forward”.
The workshop section CAN be decent but posters just select all tags for their items so searching by category is useless and there is no rule enforcement to prevent that.
I’ve been a steam user since the start and have a steam deck. Their linux support is really good but thats it.
Oh and trolls and bullies commenting on your profile just don’t seem to ever get banned nomatter what horrific shit they post.
I think this varies. Different games, different communities.
I hate how there’s a pretty glaring typo in the article, and no way to inform the author without setting up an entire account with this website specifically. I get that anonymous comments suck, but I can’t even help point out something without a 12 step process.
TL;DR - "But, I think we can all agree, it was exactly anything revolutionary. " should be “wasn’t”.
The YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH guy (you know who I’m talking about) has been busy making fake accounts for votes.
I do not know who you are talking about.
There was a guy in the audience of some conference or award show (I think E3 2019 but not sure) who went absolutely fucking wild every time
Toddanyone from Bethesda opened their mouth.Found the clip! It was E3 2019.
Kool Aid man?
I’d figured it was that disconnected dev who threw a hissy fit on the general public… or Todd
Wasn’t Bethesda individually responding to/disputing negative Steam reviews? Obviously someone’s got a lot of time on their hands over there, wouldn’t put it past them to spend a bunch of time manipulating this vote too.
Yes they where, even to mine.
Sorry you did not enjoy the game, but there are so many ways to enjoy it.
Gaslighting the shit out of it.
Sorry you did not enjoy the game, but there are so many ways to enjoy it.
Yes. For example, not having it in my library and people ripping it apart in reviews or memes.
They sure were and I considered that as part of the Todd guess. Whether entirely fake accounts or paid employees, it’s still just desperate vote manipulation by crybabies.
The responses read like they were generated with a large language model. Not that training such a model wouldn’t take a bunch of time, but at least then the effort would approach zero over time.
It’s easy, it’s the Internet and it’s full of trolls.
Right? The community reaction will be a riot if Bethesda tries to use the award in advertisements.
Of course a better question is why it was even nominated in the first place…
Steam users are doing the nominations as well.
So the nomination was bulk trolling as well? I guess that’s the only way it makes sense.
The real question is; why was starfield an option to begin with? Same with RDR2, who comes up with the “ballots”?
They are based on user submitted nominations that happened during the prior sale.
Valve can be pretty lazy about this kind of thing. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they just automatically used the top most nominated in each category without even a tiny bit of vetting.
It’s just trolling like any other thing where people can vote
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Dammit, Beth paid for their award, so they’ll get one, even if the category we need to squeeze it in is most innovative gameplay!
It was the new lock picking mini game.
Trolls attempting to dilute the impact of bg3 getting goty. Easy to manipulate those lesser categories filled with indie games.
Award shows are like political polls. They don’t mean shit!
If you can send Pitbull to Kodiak, Alaska…
People on the Internet will vote for all kinds of stupid nonsense. At least the Alaska visit was funny.
The right grease on the right palms.
