Ideas for improving our year-end awards thingy

[Mnementh]

Jaicee said:

Machina said:

OK I misunderstood, my bad. I thought you were saying the community winner was something other than TLoU 2 and that the staff had forced a TLoU 2 win in order to prevent the real community winner from winning the award.

Yes, TLoU 2 was a lot less popular with staff than the community, which is why the overall result was fairly close. TLoU 2 won the community vote with 25%, to AC's 18% - so a 7% margin of victory. After the staff totals were added it narrowed to 0.5%. But AC wasn't the staff's first pick either (like I said, it was Ori), but logically would have been had our aim been to 'defeat' TLoU 2, rather than us individually voting for our own preferences.

Okay, very much against my better judgment, I'm going to break my previous pledge not to respond to follow-up posts by just adding one final point here:

If my proposed changes had been in application for 2020's VGC awards thingy, TLOU2 would have won for AAA Game of the Year by a comfier margin and through a transparent process that I at least suspect might have conferred greater legitimacy to its victory, and also Ori and the Blind Forest would have won a parallel Indie Game of the Year award, matching the staff's pick for the ultimate award. Thus I ask you: under these circumstances, would we not all have been happier with the outcome?

So you complaining, because the game the community voted for won in the end, but you wanted to see bigger margins? Who cares?

A polarising option always has an edge in systems with positive voting (you vote FOR something). Call it the Donald Trump effect. If a lot of people hate a game like TLOU2 and a lot like it, then the haters will not get it down in voting, as they cannot vote *against* it, but all the ones who liked it will be more sure to vote for it, because of all the hate. I personally would've prefered another game to win, alone because Neil Druckman exploited and crunched his workers for the game, while acting all smug about it. Game development certainly needs much better ethics, and for that reason I would've preferred another winner. But the polarization and hate (lots of it for absolutely stupid reasons) made sure it got a lot of awards (not only on this site). But I understand that I cannot dictate the votes of others, so I didn't complain. Now you complain because of ... margins?