Game Awards 2024 Why?

[Balalaika]

Why cant we vote through steam and instead have to go to third party website? If you put this up on STEAM front page why cant you integrate voting through steam?

[wesnef]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย DeathShade:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ghost:

Why do you even care, 90% of votes are coming from a jury which mainly consists of woke activists. Some of which aren't even involved in gaming at all.

Sadly true, they are blatantly displaying that the voices of the players don't matter to them.

"The voices of the players" resulting in even worse results, as virtually every "viewers choice"/internet popularity content shows.

The Game Awards have always been a joke, but not because of the nominations. Mostly because it's just a big advertising show. No idea how the Spike Game Awards ended up having people think they're big & important.
"<Game> didn't get nominated for GotY! These awards are a joke!" No, the joke is that they somehow convinced you that their GotY award means anything.

[wesnef]

I long for the day that "gamers" grow out of crying about "woke", and attributing everything wrong in their lives to it.

[EMO GANGSTER]

its not worth the time anyways the individuals and organizations that pick these awards have no real understanding of what players of PC games would enjoy

[Realigo Actual]

I don't think it's a scumbag move to try to copyright "Game Awards". It's his thing and has been his thing for years now. It's what it's called. He's probably not trying to copyright "Game Awards" but "The Game Awards". Which is a much fairer claim. Nothing stops anybody else from having their own awards and anybody else could have run the show called "The Game Awards" for 10 years before pursuing the copyright for it before Keighley did.

[Ben Lubar]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Realigo Actual:

I don't think it's a scumbag move to try to copyright "Game Awards". It's his thing and has been his thing for years now. It's what it's called. He's probably not trying to copyright "Game Awards" but "The Game Awards". Which is a much fairer claim. Nothing stops anybody else from having their own awards and anybody else could have run the show called "The Game Awards" for 10 years before pursuing the copyright for it before Keighley did.

If Valve can trademark "Steam" and "Valve", I don't see why Geoff can't trademark "The Game Awards".

[J4MESOX4D]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Ben Lubar:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Realigo Actual:

I don't think it's a scumbag move to try to copyright "Game Awards". It's his thing and has been his thing for years now. It's what it's called. He's probably not trying to copyright "Game Awards" but "The Game Awards". Which is a much fairer claim. Nothing stops anybody else from having their own awards and anybody else could have run the show called "The Game Awards" for 10 years before pursuing the copyright for it before Keighley did.

If Valve can trademark "Steam" and "Valve", I don't see why Geoff can't trademark "The Game Awards".

Steam and Valve are not common industry words and were highly unlikely going to be used by another company or in conjunction with something gaming-related. The 'Game Awards' however has far greater span and its terms along with concept are likely to be shared across the board.

Geoff may have popularised this in recent years but with the amount of money he's potentially harvesting without any exclusivity, any attempt to secure the pot for himself may get challenged, not in concept terms but in the broader sense of the name.

He may have journalists wrapped and more deals in place than the Superbowl but there's no reason another company with a far greater focus on games couldn't come along and do a far better job.

[Crazy Tiger]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Realigo Actual:

He's probably not trying to copyright "Game Awards" but "The Game Awards". Which is a much fairer claim.

^^ this. Looks like a small subtlety, but is actually distinctive.

[SpiraTech]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Crazyhobo100:

I dunno about you all, but I know I can't wait to sit in front of my computer screen watching mostly ads, game devs being told to wrap their speeches up, Kermit the frog, and an entire half hour dedicated to Kojima. That's all that matters to me at the game awards.

Real gamers will be busy playing games in their free time instead of watching this ;)

[Crazyhobo100]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย <c=ff3300>SpiraTech</c>:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Crazyhobo100:

I dunno about you all, but I know I can't wait to sit in front of my computer screen watching mostly ads, game devs being told to wrap their speeches up, Kermit the frog, and an entire half hour dedicated to Kojima. That's all that matters to me at the game awards.

Real gamers will be busy playing games in their free time instead of watching this ;)

My comment was pure sarcasm. I will be playing games instead of watching lol

[Chilled Nomi]

People watch TGA for awards? I thought it was like superbowl where its glorified ads with small breaks once in awhile for some other thing.

[Ben Lubar]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Chilled Nomi:

People watch TGA for awards? I thought it was like superbowl where its glorified ads with small breaks once in awhile for some other thing.

Superbowl is a pretty good comparison, except instead of people throwing a ball around in between the ads it's just someone reading off the names of video games.

[BitsOfSkin]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย PhotriusPyrelus:

Why associate with "The Game Awards" at all is my question. Jeff Keely's a scumbag. I hope Steam is getting paid big bucks for that.

This, really.
Hope there's a really fat paycheck in it, otherwise, CUT THAT ♥♥♥♥ OUT.

[Doctor Zalgo]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย PhotriusPyrelus:

Why associate with "The Game Awards" at all is my question. Jeff Keely's a scumbag. I hope Steam is getting paid big bucks for that.

I wouldn't assume so, I suspect its more of a 'Hey, look at all these games that were nominated. I bet you want to buy some of these games' deal.

There's so many sales and events now they're crowding each other out, apparently I missed a turn based RPG event because top billing went to an event about cooking games.

[Golem2]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย wesnef:

I long for the day that "gamers" grow out of crying about "woke", and attributing everything wrong in their lives to it.

As do most of us I'd wager. Would also wager the crying dies off right around the time game devs ease off the gas on so called "woke" agendas and just spend their precious time making games a fun escape from the drama in the real world. It's tiresome hearing the same tug of war convo in daily life, it can move outta my gaming life and won't be missed.

[The nameless Gamer]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย DeathShade:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ghost:

Why do you even care, 90% of votes are coming from a jury which mainly consists of woke activists. Some of which aren't even involved in gaming at all.

Sadly true, they are blatantly displaying that the voices of the players don't matter to them.

It never mattered, even before Steam, game awards were never handed out based on how the players felt about video games.