I think people just love to troll so they nominated Starfield. Then figured it would be really funny if SF won.
Unless the reality is that the majority of gamers does not give a single fuck about quality and innovation and just wants to play the next
FIFAEA FC, CoD and Bugthesda stuffI want to believe people just like stupid jokes, but your last sentence might be right. Lots of gamers don’t care about quality just want to play the latest popular titles.
There are so many negative SF reviews with dozens of hours of playtime. These people already gave their money and game stats to Bethesda so what’s the point of whining?
As long as people preorder and buy stuff because of the FOMO effect the AAA industry will not improve.
It’ even dumber than that, imo. People just click random known games for the steam awards, because no one cares and they just want their rewards.
Wait…there were Steam awards? Aww man! I could have got some Steam cards to trade?
Yeah, really missed out there, buddy!
the reality is that the majority of gamers does not give a single fuck about
quality and innovationthe awards and just wants toplay the next FIFA EA FC, CoD and Bugthesdaget the rewards for voting and picks random games or maybe ones they’ve heard the names of.I hadn’t even heard of most of the games up for vote, let alone actually played them, so I just randomly picked cool-looking banners or names. I think a lot of people are like me and just picked the couple games they’d actually heard of before.
Then why vote at all?
To get the rewards Steam handed out for it. This year they gave out 11 chat stickers, one for each one you voted on.
why did you do that?
Because Steam gave out 11 exclusive stickers for voting on the different categories. It’s not a good idea to give out incentives to get people to vote for something because they’ll do it for the reward without having any idea what they’re voting for.
Yeah it’s really soul crushing to see starfield win most innovative gameplay. One less incentive for real innovative gameplay to be made.
I think people just love to troll so they nominated Starfield. Then figured it would be really funny if SF won.
The Steam awards need to create more strict boundaries for games to enter certain categories.
It seems almost too simple but a barrier for entry for the “continued support” category of having at least 2 major updates this year would solve this kind of whack-ass result.
Worse. They force everyone to vote in every category, without a skip or no opinion option. This means, when each category is presented to the user, they basically pick the only game on the list they’re familiar with, regardless of evaluating on merit. If they had something as simple as “I am not familiar enough to vote on this topic” as an option, then RDR2 drops off.
That’s a good idea.
I don’t know if it deserves a reward, but off the top of my head, Hello Games released 4 major updates (plus minor incremental updates) and launched on a new system in 2023 for No Man’s Sky. Fractal, Interceptor, Singularity and Echoes each introduced new content, and NMS is now on Mac.
That’s just the most obvious example I know of off the top of my head.
Quite a few Paradox games that would be perpetual candidates. Europa Universalis IV is like ten years old and still getting updates and DLC.
No Man’s Sky is almost a perennial contender at this point haha.
Oh yeah! CK2 enjoyed years of updates too. Of course Paradox is more DLC focused it seems. I think I still have $50 of Paradox DLC in my Steam Wishlist for EU4 and CK2. Similar stats probably for Truck Simulator, Train Simulator, and the various other simulator games out there.
Does it matter for “Labour of Love” if the upadtes are DLC or free? What does “Labour of Love” even mean as a category? Obviously if RDR2 can win, anyone can!
Makes sense for the steam awards to mean nothing. Their own user reviews are for shite.
Steam gives you rewards for voting in every category and lets you vote for games you haven’t played sometimes on systems you don’t own (VR and Steam Deck categories).
Of course the results are shit.
I wish they would let you choose any game that fits a category limited by the current t year if needed. Half of the time I haven’t played any of them.
They do though. Aside from the award names and the award descriptions (which function as prompts) the awards are player driven entirely. The nominees are chosen during the player nomination phase, then during the finals players choose from the most nominated. I believe there needs to be some critical curation but currently it’s entirely chosen by Steam’s players.
thats because steam awards are a complete joke, and entirely worthless as any measure of anyrhing but name recognisability
Maybe the support was emotional?
