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Azzanation on 13 March 2020
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Azzanation said:

Mate, Video game awards are a joke, there are over 200+ GOTY awards given out every year and many are worthless. Some are even given out from internal studio's official magazines which are heavily bias. 

You have to find the right sites to determine which is worth an award and which isn't. For example, UC4 won plenty of GOTY awards, but from who? Overwatch won majority of the main important GOTY awards from my understanding hence why it was the GOTY that year by the main critics. Death Stranding I haven't even heard of it winning any GOTY awards however not saying it didn't, but so did a lot of other games as well. GOTY awards at least by my standards is based on the quality of the award not the quantity. Because from what iv seen, there is too much crap awards given away. 

So basically it all comes down to your own opinion on what you think is GOTY as anyone can pluck a GOTY award from some random site and claim that's the best game that year.

Your notion of importance is completely subjective. A french enthusiast will find jeuxvideo more important than gamespot. It's also completely irrelevant as GOTYpicks is an aggregate of all awards.

If a game was only critically acclaimed in one area or fan segment it would not be able to get the most awards. UC4 got 63 more awards than OW. Sorry if reality differs from your I misread, seems the estimate only includes sales.

PS revenue FY 2017 - $17.53 billion

Steam revenue estimate FY 2017 - $4.3 billion 

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-23-valves-generates-record-breaking-usd4-3bn-from-sales-revenue-in-2017+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qjG_oXQrLMUJ:https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-23-valves-generates-record-breaking-usd4-3bn-from-sales-revenue-in-2017+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

There is little Valve can have to make up for another $13 billion though. 

Okay but PS1/2 had far more exclusives and a lot bigger exclusives from third parties. 

No where did i say UC4 didnt win more awards. What i am telling you is majority of the popular opinion of GOTY awards went to Overwatch. I could care less if some unknown french reporter decides to give UC4 GOTY however i would pay more attention to outlets like IGN, Gamespot, Polygon and even the Game Awards as there opinion holds up stronger than some Joebob1380 GOTY winner. 

Take that as you wish. I could care less about GOTY Awards however lets not act like the main outlets mean little compared to the smaller ones.

Also if Steam charged their customers $60 a year to play there games online than that gap reduces immensely.