The Game Awards Thread (2020)

[sundin13]

IcaroRibeiro said:

Dulfite said:

Have it based on a gamer poll (not critic), but they have to be at least in their mid 20's to vote and have to have played multiple systems/platforms over their life so far.

So essentially making a critics panel out of people who think they are better than other gamers. Genius

The answer for me is none. Awards must be voted by people who works in the industry. It means devs, essentially, but also designers, graphic artists, musicians, voice actors, screenplay writers and I wouldn't mind people from other industries that are similar like comic artists or animation producers. Critics could be included, the keyword is what is the criteria to sign them, having a random blog isn't enough 

In essence, people who understands how to make games. That's how grammy panel is choose, everyone who is a singer, songwriter, producer, music engineer, etc etc who has show some proficiency in the field can become a Grammy affiliated

Also, not everybody vote to all categories on the Grammys, some people vote only on their own field. Keeping the same energy, makes sense for voice actors vote mainly in voice acting performance categories meanwhile designers vote mainly on design related categories 

My only concern about that is music albums can be done with 10 to 30 people even if the biggest productions of the year. Even if everybody votes in their own album it will hardly overcome the more than 10k votes in the whole community 

Meanwhile for games big dev teams can easily manipulate results if they vote politically to favor their own studios. They would need a rule to limit the number of affiliates working on the same studio

Isn't that basically what the Game Developers Choice Awards are? Not every awards show has to be exactly the same. Different shows have different groups doling out the awards and there is nothing wrong with that.