According to Wiki, last year’s TGA was watched by over a 100 mil people, so someone does.
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tdawg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
People watch game awards?
a_fine_hound@lemmy.world 7 months ago
pory@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wasn’t last year’s TGA the one where having the tab open in the background entered you into a drawing for a Steam Deck?
SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thats definitely one way to raise your viewer numbers.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I like watching it. But i like to see the faves I played throughout the year get recognition and hear a little bit from the Devs when they receive the awards. Announcements are a bonus for me. Plus I prefer to watch things fully even if they had already passed rather than just looking up the winners (in the case of the game awards). It would be like being into a sport but just looking up the results the next morning instead. I prefer to watch the full game unknowing of the outcome, and I take that mentality with me with both award shows (that i care about) and even Nintendo directs and it’s counterparts (which admittedly the game awards is half of)
Carighan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah I was confused by that, too.
Isn’t this like the Steam “awards” were beyond maybe some laughing about how silly the whole procedure is, nobody cares?
Rose@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The main problem with the Steam awards is that they don’t respect the actual release dates. For example, Red Dead Redemption 2, a 2018 game (or a 2019 game if you go by PC only) was named the Steam GOTY in 2020.
Steam also had little to offer in the years that were heavy on Epic exclusives and great games like Kena or Control, resulting in it being hard to think up a nominee.
Moreover, I remember correctly, they also bar prior winners from their “most supported game” type category, which makes no sense because some games, like Euro Truck Simulator 2, get regular content and technical updates to this day. On the other hand, The Witcher 3 recently won in a category despite having been untouched for years.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 7 months ago
I would if it wasn’t so unbearably long. Only for the announcements though.
GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Only been tuning in these past few years for Elden Ring news, assuming the DLC gets shown I’ll just stick to summaries after.
DrQuint@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Uh… What’s that noise?
*leans down*
Is… That a bug holding a nail?
BudgieMania@kbin.social 7 months ago
People watch the announcements, they put up with the awards