The steam award voting system ...

[MxMatrix]

Can there be a more corrupt system?
I get the impression this is a way of promoting games who payed valve to be nominated.
What do you think?

[Crazy Tiger]

Users nominated them during the Autumn sale. If you don't like the picks, blame your fellow gamers.

[Pscht]

It's a POPULARITY VOTE. This means, surprisingly, that games with a huge playerbase will come out on top.

[my new friend]

Originally posted by MxMatrix:

Can there be a more corrupt system?
I get the impression this is a way of promoting games who payed valve to be nominated.
What do you think?

*grabs popcorn
Go on. Please enlighten us as to why you think that.

[Mad Scientist]

No one paid valve to be nominated, it's a user popularity vote.

[Mr. Smiles]

Steam users are known to be notoriously corrupt, yes. Makes sense to me.

[Crystal Sharrd]

I'm surprised anything Persona 5 got so high myself. It's the worst Persona game.

[♥♥tutor♥♥tαrα♥♥]

Originally posted by MxMatrix:

Can there be a more corrupt system?
I get the impression this is a way of promoting games who payed valve to be nominated.
What do you think?

Valve doesn't accept money from publishers to advertise their games on Steam:

Q. Can I pay for my game to show up to more customers?
A. Nope. You focus on making a compelling, interesting, and unique game, and Steam will work out the best places to feature your game based on customers’ interests, preferences, and feedback.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/visibility#9

So I don't think that Valve is accepting money from publishers to nominate their games for a Steam Award.

[yuppicide]

It's stupid. I don't know 99% of the games I'm voting on and I just randomly pick one. The awards should mean nothing to the developers because there's many of us voting blindly just to get a stupid card for a badge.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by MxMatrix:

Can there be a more corrupt system?
I get the impression this is a way of promoting games who payed valve to be nominated.

There are some AAA titles in there, but surprisingly few. On the orher hand, some of the other stuff doesn't leave the impression that they have any budget at all.

Thus, no, the nominations don't feel rigged like that. Also, IIRC, there's no Valve title this year -- and that's the most obvious choice for Valve to fix.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by MxMatrix:

Can there be a more corrupt system?
I get the impression this is a way of promoting games who payed valve to be nominated.
What do you think?

Silliest thing I've heard.

[ KARR™]

The worst part of it is adding a REWARD to voting.

With sale cards, people farm cards like crazy, which means they can get at least ten per account - so they just vote randomly, or for the same item on each account. Either way, it skews the actual popularity vote.

[Halo]

Originally posted by  KARR™:

The worst part of it is adding a REWARD to voting.

With sale cards, people farm cards like crazy, which means they can get at least ten per account - so they just vote randomly, or for the same item on each account. Either way, it skews the actual popularity vote.

Doesn't matter about multiple accounts, I don't have any others and i just voted for whatever is first to get them.

It was a clicker game exercise - click the first vote button as quick as possible to get it over with.

Why anyone cares, puts any value or credence to some company self generated irrelevant award is beyond me.

I guess some people have sat down, read every game in every category and considered who they will vote for and it leaves me mystified why they would bother.

Can anyone actually name any game that has won a category in any year and did the developer put it in their advertising outside of Steam?

I certainly can't.

[kitt]

imaging caring about random votes.. they are useless just like those game awards.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by  KARR™:

The worst part of it is adding a REWARD to voting.

With sale cards, people farm cards like crazy, which means they can get at least ten per account - so they just vote randomly, or for the same item on each account. Either way, it skews the actual popularity vote.

Yeah, that's why I voted. I did actually make a couple "serious" nominations based on my shopping list, but even there I had to resort to random shop searches for most categories since I just didn't have enough 2021 titles on my shopping list.

Still, since everybody will be making different random choices, I can imagine that actually popular games still come out on top...

The actual vote was mostly random, except that I avoided AAA and shooters if possible.

I'm not at all convinced that random votes are cancelled out on the actual vote, though. If it were an even distribution then maybe, but I can imagine that the leftmost or rightmost titles get more random votes ..