Steam awards, could they be worse?

[Anna]

I just voted for 8 games I don't have, never played and never heard about. And my votes are as important as everyone else. I'm bad peson of cource, but steam insist me to do it, it pays me for doing so with cards. Sure I'll vote, why not, why should i care.

VR games? Good luck with fair rating. Billions of guys who own CS and HL2 only will vote to determine the best. I bet bordelends will win because crowds heard about franchise. Otherwise it would became voting for the prettiest logo. Does it have anything at least slightly related with actual quality of the games? Not at all.

Does steam actually want some at least slightly fair rewards? Labor of love? No way some indy studio ever beat any mass market product with such system. Regardless any amount of love and labor.

I literraly can't find a way to make this "reward" worse.

[Cozy Fawn]

The only award I even knew the games in was the one that had Slay the Spire and Oxygen Not Included beyond that I picked the one with the less ugly picture xD

[Spawn of Totoro]

The Fall sale is when these games were selected by the community. These were the top 5 in any given category.

[Jeo Nugu]

Could they be worse? I don't see how. I only voted for one game under the Outstanding Visual Style, but all the rest of the games in all other categories are just not even worth voting on. I don't even see how they got nominated, like it's all some kind of sick joke.

[Cozy Fawn]

Originally posted by Weki Meki:

Could they be worse? I don't see how. I only voted for one game under the Outstanding Visual Style, but all the rest of the games in all other categories are just not even worth voting on. I don't even see how they got nominated, like it's all some kind of sick joke.

Most of them are AAA games so that means those people prob only own like 7 games and didnt have anything to really pick from xD

[Garou]

I only voted to get the badge. Otherwise half the categories are filled with junk.

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Yea only 3 great games the rest was pure junk.

[Anna]

I'm not even talking about game choises. It's ok I don't know new games, I'm not game journalist to know every new game.

But why I supposed to vote for stuff i never seen in my life?! It's like baseball mutch judjed by the people who don't know the rules. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ absurd.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Anna:

I'm not even talking about game choises. It's ok I don't know new games, I'm not game journalist to know every new game.

But why I supposed to vote for stuff i never seen in my life?! It's like baseball mutch judjed by the people who don't know the rules. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ absurd.

You missed the previous 3 Awards? Same thing.

[Anna]

The same problem obviously applied to nomination. No "Skip" button for some category? Embrace random junk nomination. Guess who will win nominations? Unrelated mass market.

[Anna]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

You missed the previous 3 Awards? Same thing.
:qr:

No, I didn't. I just hoped such obvious flaw will be noticed after all. Silly me.

[Darren]

Originally posted by Anna:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

You missed the previous 3 Awards? Same thing.
:qr:

No, I didn't. I just hoped such obvious flaw will be noticed after all. Silly me.

I am not sure what you mean by flaw?

Nominations happen in the Autumn sale. The top 5 nominated in each category go to the voting for the award in the Winter sale.

If it is in the awards it was deemed to be the most popular option by more people than picked whatever other game you would have preferred.

Like every year most of my nominations don't get in (if you nominated a game it even let's you know you did) but I knew of good games in all the categories and can see why others picked them.

[Charming Cthulhu]

The nominated games are a joke. Not because they're bad or because I didn't play them, but because some of them weren't even released in 2019.

Game of the Year 2019:
Destiny 2? That game was released in 2017. It only migrated to Steam in 2019.

Best Multiplayer Game 2019:
Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition? That's only a remaster. That game was released in 1999.

Best Visuals 2019:
Subnautica: Below Zero? That's an early access title, that game won't be officially released before 2020.

Sure, I see why these games are popular.
One went free to play after 2 years, another one has been good for 20 years, the last one copied its artdesign from its 2018 prequel.
But nominating these games isn't even only stupid, it's also incredibly unfair towards developers who actually released their new games this year.

At least we get a free badge, but none of the games winning an award will actually deserve it.

[eram]

I hope people realise the awards actually don't mean a thing. It's a digital store selling you stuff.

[löyly]

I mean, I like getting badges and stuff unreasonably much, but there is a limit to what kind of stupid stuff I'll do for them. You're NOT forced to vote for any of those games. You're not forced to collect as much silly pixel stuff as you possibly can.

Discussions during autumn sales: "OMG Steam makes me nominate random junk I've never even played"
Discussions during winter sales: "OMG Steam makes me vote for random junk, whoever nominated all that random junk??"
...
Of course the system is flawed, but it's really everyone's own choice if they want to contribute to making it worse. Maybe move to the Suggestion board to discuss separate Indie Awards without badges and bs for nominating and voting? I'm in.

[Xautos]

a follow on from those 2019 fall votes? then i won't notice these either.