Kyuu said:
Death Stranding winning more GOTY awards than Sekiro is blasphemy. |
Apparently there was some drama with the person responsible for running GotY Tracker during 2019-2022. Dude was really big on Sony, not much of a fan of FromSoft. Once Elden Ring started its unprecedented tear for GotY awards over GoW:R, the dude quit the tracker.
People have called into question the authenticity of the tracker from 2019 & 2020 in particular, noting that many awards given to the SEI winners come from now defunct sites. Upon having recounted the 2022 awards, for instance, around 35 awards had to be dropped, GoW:R losing a majority of them, and Elden Ring actly gaining a few somehow. Being that Sekiro was supposedly in the lead up until this guy took over the tracker, it would not surprise me if the counter was rigged that year. Same could be said abt TLoU:Pt2 having been potentially inflated.