The Game Awards feature 50 games and I think alot of gamers prefer taste will ignore most of these?

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ZyroXZ2 said:

I think a lot of the negativity is that, upon close inspection, you can easily see how TGA is another media-run circle jerk. The nominees are only chosen by gaming media outlets, and when picking the GOTY, only 10% of the public votes count towards it, and they don't even tell you the weight. For all I know, it's "10%" but actually closer to zero percent if there are enough media outlet votes on a particular game and they just pick something for that easy upset and farm the drama for advertiser clicks/money.

Thus, it all just feels like another "sham" celebration because the focus is drawing in advertiser dollars through creating "upsets" and "gotcha, you didn't see THAT coming!" moves to drive traffic. The use of celebrities, at least to me, has always looked more like a desperate move to be "on par" with other entertainment industry award shows. You know, like an attempt to "fit in", so it's always been a weird facet, too.

Well what do you want? Just a mess of gamers trying to come together and arrange an award show? That would be a shitstorm. We cant even agree on what gen some consoles are in. Its just a show to highlight some of the great games that release each year. Dont take it so seriously. If gamers picked the winners, then whatever was the big game that year would win. Smaller games and Indies would have no chance.