This year’s The Game Awards is an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation via star power with little respect for the devs it’s supposedly honoring.
— Josh Sawyer (@jesawyer) December 8, 2023
Gaddamn, Lmao.
Anyway shout out to all of my friends who won things or had their games debut last night 🫂
— Josh Sawyer (@jesawyer) December 8, 2023
TGA's is being absolutely blasted on social media this time around, by both journalists and developers. Honestly though it has always been like this, it was never really about the awards but the announcements and advertising, though it seems to get worse every single year.
Like, as an announcement show it was pretty good and I do like it but you advertise yourself as an awards show so it's pretty insulting how the awards feel like they're shoved in the background, it's unfair to the developers, either find a good middle-ground or stop and pick what you want to be, a showcase or an awards show, stop dicking the developers around.
Honestly at this point I feel like TGA's should just turn into "Winter Game Fest" and let DICE handle the rewards.
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