Only You Can Prevent The Game Awards Hype Cycle - Aftermath

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• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People watch game awards?

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  • BudgieMania@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People watch the announcements, they put up with the awards

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  • a_fine_hound@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    According to Wiki, last year’s TGA was watched by over a 100 mil people, so someone does.

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    • pory@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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?

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨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)

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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?

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    • Rose@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would if it wasn’t so unbearably long. Only for the announcements though.

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  • GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • DrQuint@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Uh… What’s that noise?

      *leans down*

      Is… That a bug holding a nail?

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• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To me, it’s The Game Announcements.

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• NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve never watched game awards. I don’t even know if there is even a main one. Watches speeches is boring which is why I don’t watch award shows in general.

  Only goty I care about is the goty edition where the game releases with all the DLCs bundled at a discount.

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• instamat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t believe an event created by Geoff Keighly could be generic or average

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• bridge_too_close@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Last year's TGA was somewhat exciting because they gave away a bunch of Steam Decks. I normally just see the winners posted the next morning, along with any new game trailers.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Til there are game awards.

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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh now we all dislike Geoff Keighley? Finally noticed how much of a charima devoid dingus he is, have we?

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