Scrap the Steam Community GOTY Awards.

[[EW] Mitsie]

With Hitman 3 VR. A broken, Janky, PS1 port that is unplayable, winning the Steam GOTY Awards. This just proves what a farce the Community awards really are.

When you offer trading cards for participation for voting in the awards. What you end up with is people picking random games or picking games they have just heard of, just to get the cards.

You may aswell just use a random generator to pick the winners, because you will achieve the same outcome.

What a joke the awards really are.

Literally awarding companies for market visibility, rather than quality of their work.

The whole thing either needs totally rethinking or scrapping altogether.

[KalGimpa]

Publicado originalmente por EW Mitsie:

If it's supposed to be fun, why call it "Awards" and "Game of the Year"

Why not "Community Popularity Contest" and "Community Favourite"

The fact that Valve tried so hard this year to entice people to watch the "Game Awards" by giving away a SteamDeck every minute.

Which they want people to take seriously.

Then branded this year's Steam Awards with exactly the same branding as the Game Awards, shows that Valve want people to take it seriously and have weight behind actually winning the award.

Hence the branding "Award" and "Game of the Year". So developers can say we won Game of the Year.

why spend so much time complaining about something you can ignore?

see how useless the question is?

anyways, nobody is going to remove the rewards becase you think that they are busted

people enjoy them, even if you don't

[[EW] Mitsie]

Publicado originalmente por {FU}TheForgeryTTV:

Publicado originalmente por EW Mitsie:

Steam give Trading cards out for picking a candidate In the awards. This results in people randomly picking any game, or one that they have heard of from the list, just to get the Trading cards.

Steam may aswell just randomly pick a winner, because they would probably get the same outcome anyway.

Or scrap the Community awards altogether.

Like this guy said, it would be better if the awards were scrapped completely like Steam Greenlight. I remember it used to have promise but then people voted for garbage-tier games and it was bloated with trash. It was so bad, Valve had to kill it.

After all, Youtube killed their rewind videos and people couldn't care less for the Oscars (until Slapgate happened). No point in having these stupid awards if there's no standards.

Publicado originalmente por GodKilla-:

Anybody is allowed to vote in the Steam Awards, even encouraged with XP/cards and other things.
Less than 1% of the voters have actually played Hitman 3 VR or any of the other options, this disqualifies the voting as meaningless.
The same goes for all the categories, Spider-Man wins outstanding visual art style only because people click it over anything they know less. It's not actually outstanding visual art style.

There is others across the forums discussing how meaningless the awards are. Hitman 3 VR winning "Game of the Year" this year has made it a total mockery.

[Aachen]

VR is hardly relevant in the first place.

[Tito Shivan]

Publicado originalmente por EW Mitsie:

It's not just a sale filler. These studios go on to use this in their marketing to sell their games.

Really?

I've never seen any of the awards winners mention they're a Steam Awards winner in their own marketing (There's a Steam placed banner right now on the store page, because they're just awarded)

Publicado originalmente por nullable:

It's not nearly the problem you imagine. Most people I don't think have any delusions about the significance of the user voted popularity contest awards. Stop kidding yourself there.

We've had people on these forums trying to 'elevate' the Steam Awards to Oscars level of importance, when it's just a little funny activity for users to scan the store for games.

I think we'd have less threads like this one if Steam had stuck with the funny categories they had for the first awards. They set the tone far better than the actual run-of-the-mill ones and set them apart from every other generic 'game awards'.

Now people see 'GAME OF THE YEAR AWARD' and think we're at the Nobel awards ceremony.

[✘GreedoShotFirst✘]

You're not lying. Steam Awards are trash. I won't lie, I've voted a lot of random games just to get the cards, especially since I haven't played a lot of new games this year that fit into every category.

However, nobody really takes Steam Awards seriously, so I don't think it should matter too much. I just ignore them tbh.

[[EW] Mitsie]

Publicado originalmente por Tito Shivan:

I think we'd have less threads like this one if Steam had stuck with the funny categories they had for the first awards. They set the tone far better than the actual run-of-the-mill ones and set them apart from every other generic 'game awards'.

Now people see 'GAME OF THE YEAR AWARD' and think we're at the Nobel awards ceremony.

Exactly, go back to making it fun. Valve gave away SteamDecks every minute to entice people to watch the Game Awards 2022 live stream, then branded the Steam Awards exactly the same.

If its supposed to be fun, make it fun. It's almost like they had some ulterior motive this year..

[The Commendatore]

Oh, no. Something won you disagree with.

Now let's scrap the whole idea because you didn't like it.

[[EW] Mitsie]

Publicado originalmente por The Commendatore:

Oh, no. Something won you disagree with.

Now let's scrap the whole idea because you didn't like it.

No, have you played Hitman 3 VR? It's an absolute joke. It isn't even playable. It's probably the worst VR game made by a AAA studio ever in the history of VR gaming. And it won VR Game of the Year.

Each year, people who got involved, thought they were getting involved because everybody who voted, joined in to pick their favourite games and the results looked legitimate.

The branding was fun and it didn't take itself seriously.

This year, a game that is broken and is a running joke in its own community, has won Game of The year. This has pointed out the flaws in the Steam Awards. And proved to us all it's just a farce.

If it's supposed to be fun, make it fun.

If it's going to be serious. Make it serious and stop giving trading cards and XP away to entice people to vote randomly.

Show us we can vote and let us join in if we want to.

Or make it fun and give us funny categories..

Valve need to either make it serious or fun..

[Garou]

Any award show or an event will have winners that don't align with everyone's tastes.
I didn't like that many TGA show winners this year or any year for that matter. But the feeling doesn't last long and you just move on to the next thing.
You can always create your own list of best 2022 games and share it here or your profile.

[B-o-B]

Let's brake this down.

There's hundreds of well off Developers that are gonna get together every year in a big swanky theatre type building with all the glitter and glam the like you've seen in Holly Wood.
Now try stop it.

Problem solved.

[wuddih]

Publicado originalmente por B-o-B:

Let's brake this down.

There's hundreds of well off Developers that are gonna get together every year in a big swanky theatre type building with all the glitter and glam the like you've seen in Holly Wood.
Now try stop it.

Problem solved.

you described The Game Awards, which actually tries to be the Oscars of video games according to the creator.

Steam Awards does not really try to be anything. it is 4 weeks of user voting, the most popularity at this time, wins.

[T9]

I don't know a single person who takes the picks serious. They just pick random suggestions or what comes to the mind in this moment and bye-bye

[[EW] Mitsie]

Publicado originalmente por t9:

I don't know a single person who takes the picks serious. They just pick random suggestions or what comes to the mind in this moment and bye-bye

That's my exact point, if it's not going to be a reflection of the steam community's views. Why not save millions of peoples time, money and electricity bill and just randomly generate the winners anyway?

Why even have a vote in the first place?

If you are saying to people, you have never played any of these VR games because you don't have a VR headset, but just pick one to win the Trading card/XP.

All you end up with is a user generated random number generator.

So when it says: "The VR Game of the Year isn't merely masquerading as regular reality. This game improves on reality, taking advantage of the medium of VR and pushing the boundaries of the virtual realm."

Its all lies.

When it should say: "The VR Game of the Year was picked at random by people who don't have a VR headset, who simply wanted a free trading card during the Steam sale"

[Pierce Dalton]

Publicado originalmente por t9:

I don't know a single person who takes the picks serious. They just pick random suggestions or what comes to the mind in this moment and bye-bye

Pretty much this.

Also, it's funny how some people mock Metacritic because you can review games that you haven't played, while Steam lets you vote for games you haven't played as well...

[Tito Shivan]

Publicado originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Pretty much this.

Also, it's funny how some people mock Metacritic because you can review games that you haven't played, while Steam lets you vote for games you haven't played as well...

If Steam allowed to vote only to games one has played many people wouldn't be able to participate, namely me who I very rarely buy games on release (Haven't played a single game released this year) and Steam Sale events are designed to be open to (almost) every user.

Publicado originalmente por EW Mitsie:

That's my exact point, if it's not going to be a reflection of the steam community's views. Why not save millions of peoples time, money and electricity bill and just randomly generate the winners anyway?

You may be overstating the cost of the whole event by a large margin.

Publicado originalmente por EW Mitsie:

Why even have a vote in the first place?

In a word? Engagement.

Steam Events are designed to drive engagement with the site. Hence why Steam tasks users with stuff like playing a game they've voted, write a review for it or scout the store for games to vote.

You're all giving too much importance to what at their core are user-engagement driven events.