I think a problem is that people are compelled to vote on every catagory to get that sweet, sweet useless gift. Making them vote for the only name they have played and/or heard of in every catagory.
There’s this, and there’s just trolling, like giving most innovative gameplay to Starfield. The internet’s gonna internet, what can you do.
At least the trolls make it obvious they’re not voting sincerely. Steam awards are a popularity contest where the categories don’t really matter, so I’m just glad less people will take the results seriously this time around.
I don’t think there’s really any trolling going on (at least enough that it matters), just that people vote for what they know or recognize, like you said a popularity contest. Three of the titles in the Innovative Gameplay section are pretty niche, no matter how good they are. Even Remnant 2 is dwarfed by Starfield sales, so the latter just becomes the default choice for most people.
If there was any other big name AAA title on the list, I think Starfield could have lost.
The issue starts even earlier, with the fact that you’re encouraged to nominate games that you may not have even played. I think the only game released this year that I’ve played was Cities: Skylines 2, which I didn’t feel deserved anything, so I just punched in whatever games I could find that had released this year.
And then, yeah, I totally just clicked choices for all the votes for awards too. I didn’t really care, I didn’t play any of the choices anyway.
I did the exact same thing.
This year you could skip a category, and it would still count towards the badge / stickers / whatever, but I don’t think that was made clear at a glance. It was explained in the FAQ, but who reads that, when you could just click whatever and be done?
Maybe that was just for the nominations though, I don’t remember checking for the actual vote.
It is crazy how Steam users seem to interact with the platform exclusively in bad faith. The reviews are filled with memes, joke reviews and drama. You will lose IQ points just by opening the forums. And of course, people troll the awards. Not that I would expect a mainstream gaming platform to attract geniuses, but Steam community is definitely bottom of the barrel.
What platforms have you been frequenting (or avoiding) where steam is the bottom of the barrel?
Honestly, steam reviews are far more useful than most review systems. Ign or metacritic are nearly useless in comparison.
Most Innovative Gameplay Award: Starfield
still funnyWhat the actual fuck lmao. How does Skyrim in space win the most innovative gameplay award?
Gamers have lost their minds I swear
It was a deliberate joke, I think
It’s not even Skyrim in Space.
The allure of Skyrim is that your given a quest 5 miles away and on the way you literally the whole game because you keep getting distracted with infinite subplots, and sidequests.
None of that happens in Starfield. There is nothing between the end goal and the quest origin besides tens of miles of fuckin nothing. That’s why it’s “Mostly Negative” right now.
Skyrim in space is what people wanted. It was the bar to meet.
They also nominated Warhammer: 40k Darktide for the “Better with Friends” award when it was an unfinished flop that sits at 66% (Mixed) for overall reviews.
Maybe we could dare to hope for a “mostly positive” in that slot at minimum.
I knew this year’s awards were a joke the second I saw Starfield nominated for (and subsequently winning) ‘most innovative gameplay.’
This game was very popular in Taiwan but I do not think it deserves the reward. High sales because of a popular IP should not determine whether a game wins an award. Was the Steam Deck version better than the other versions? My friends who played it complained of glitches and boring gameplay.
Yes, the Hogwarts game on the Deck was glitchy as fuck despite being “Steam Deck certified”.
One of the problems was it kept opening files for content without closing the old files that are no longer used. Operating systems limit the number of files a single process can have open to prevent runaway processes and causing systems to completely hang. Linux is just a little more strict than Windows by default so the fix was to update a setting. It had obviously not been tested further than “well it starts”.
But I think that’s the joke.
I had fun for a while, but yeah, I got bored.
I feels like this sort of article pops up every single year after Steam Award. I remember the first year steam award started it’s basically the same “issue”, where game that people think don’t deserve the award are given one.
but have you considered that it’s bad actually to laud the transphobic blood libel game with Ubisoft characteristics?
particularly in a year so packed with actual decent games deserving of recognition?
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It’s literally the opposite of transphobic. It’s like they tried as hard as they could to negate everything bad JKR has ever said…
sadly it still shovels money into her pockets and is about the cabal of hooked nose bankers stealing children to perform rituals
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noticing you’re neglecting to defend the blood libel plotline or the fact that it’s another bland, dogshit open world game
but also if i wanted a cissie’s opinions on trans issues i’d surely have asked instead of telling
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You’re a transphobic clown that cares more about your Harry Potter treats than trans people. Stop pretending otherwise.
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At this point the steam awards is just advertising. We don’t have proof of voting bots because Valve exclusively keeps things in secret.
When a single journo phones in an award it’s called fucking up, when it’s an entire community it’s a meme.
Enough drama, this isn’t the place to argue. Locking the thread.