Steam Awards Vote Manipulation?

[Dr. Shenanigans]

This series of winners has my alarm bells ringing.

Now I know I'm mad that dear Peppino got snubbed for a clear award win not just once, but -twice-, but I'll try and keep my anger in check as much as I can, because there are -two- huge issues I have with today's winners

A game that is rated mostly-negative and is infamously-formulaic somehow won "most innovative"??

Starfield has been panned across the board. This isn't even like it was Cocoon, where at least it had a small positive playerbase. Starfield is so bad, that big-profile MODDERS, bethesda's saving grace, went on record to say they aren't going to support this game.

A game that has it's community falling apart, magically wins a vote-by-popularity contest because...?

A game hasn't had an update in years, has abandoned multiplayer, somehow has "labor of love"??

Now, I know labor of love is one of those "crack categories that a large audience can never vote for right," because one person votes for a game that's been updated for five years, another votes for a game that's been updated for ten, and yet there's a game on steam that's been in constant development for (I kid you not) THIRTY Years.

So why does Red Dead Redemption 2 set my alarms off?..

Well apparently, RDR2 hasn't been updated in -years-, it's multiplayer is abandoned, and somehow this

Okay, maybe because nobody knows the entries there on the list so they voted for the game they wanted... Who knows?

Why has this steam awards been so weird?

Would 90% of the steam population really go and make joke-votes for some reason or another? I don't think valve would go out of their way to rig a vote either as that sets a ugly precedent. I wonder if someone has been paying out cheap click-farms to try and stack the vote on their games.

I wouldn't hold it for someone like Rockstar or Bethesda. Baldur's Gate 3 at least deserved it's wins.

[Seretti]

You take these awards way too seriously, man... Let it go.

[MonkehMaster]

likely trolls voting for bad games.

[miakisfan]

Uh ... you do realize the more serious you take this the worse it makes you look, right? It's just awards ... it isn't like they are set in stone.

Besides, who are you to be judge, jury, and executioner on the votes of other people? Especially virtual votes?

If these awards had a significant effect on my personal life I'd more than likely be worried about them. They don't There are far worse things happening in the world to worry about the most innovation game or the labor of love award.

Reality is far more important than a video game award.

As for your last comment ... I'd be willing to bet there are people out there who didn't like Baldur's Gate 3 and didn't think it deserved its wins. Are you going to crucify them as well?

[TheLevelCap]

Edit:

I voted for Baldur's Gate because I was afraid Fifa would win. Also in many cases I voted for the worst options because everytime a game wins, they raise prices a few weeks later (it happened in the past 2 years, the devs release some shi**y in-game content after they win steam awards as excuse to raise prices). To me it feels like we're voting to choose who is gonna take more money from us.

And I feel mad Steam didn't give us a Steam Awards badge.

[MonkehMaster]

引用自 TheLevelCap：

I voted of Red Dead as labour of love because I was afraid Fifa would win. Also in many cases I voted for the worst options because everytime a game wins, they raise prices a few weeks later (it happened in the past 2 years, the devs release some shi**y in-game content after they win steam awards as excuse to raise prices). To me it feels like we're voting to choose who is gonna take more money from us.

And I feel mad Steam didn't give us a Steam Awards badge.

imagine starflop raising its price

[TheLevelCap]

引用自 MonkehMaster：

引用自 TheLevelCap：

I voted of Red Dead as labour of love because I was afraid Fifa would win. Also in many cases I voted for the worst options because everytime a game wins, they raise prices a few weeks later (it happened in the past 2 years, the devs release some shi**y in-game content after they win steam awards as excuse to raise prices). To me it feels like we're voting to choose who is gonna take more money from us.

And I feel mad Steam didn't give us a Steam Awards badge.

imagine starflop raising its price :cqlol:

Exactly, this is the idea, vote for shi*y games because they won't raise prices and even if they do, no one will care because no one wants to play it.

We basically saved Ramnant, a game I don't really play, but people seem to be enjoying. You're welcome. (Of course I only count as 1 vote, but people need to see what is going on and I hope many that voted for Starfield also did for this reason)

It's been a while since the last time the gaming industry actually respected us.

[Dunkler Messias]

Never trust player-voted awards.
There are users who creates several fake/joke game reviews, sharing cooking recipes and begging for likes and Steam awards for Steam points. And the same people are able to vote for the Steam Awards. Soooo, no wonder the results are ... well, bad.

[peremptor]

Some games where more popular than others with steam users. We learned so much :P

[Spawn of Totoro]

引用自 peremptor：

Some games where more popular than others with steam users. We learned so much :P

Or had been heard of by more people.

They are more likely to vote for a name they recognize, rather then a game they have never heard of.

引用自 Dunkler Messias：

Never trust player-voted awards.

Yet, we are told not to listen to professional ones too, as those are all rigged as well.

May as well just take them all as the entertainment they are meant to be!

[peremptor]

Don't trust others to tell you what to think period. Lesson learned.

These awards served their purpose alright!

[JVM]

It's called a joke,

[Pscht]

"My vote didn't win, it must be rigged"

[Blood]

I'm pretty sure you can make an account just to vote. Also people have been voting for the worst option for years, I still remember a dead gorilla got 10,000 votes for president.

[Pheex]

It's just a popularity contest.

A game like Deep Rock Galactic isn't going to win against Red Dead 2, a game with 60 million copies sold. And a bunch of indie games aren't going to win over Starfield. These behemoths will have such an infinitely larger player base that there will inherently be 100 times more people voting for them simply because those are the games they have played out of the nominees.

[Hobbitse]

Red Dead 2 and Starfield are clearly troll votes. Maybe they should not have been admissible or someone should check for that before proclaiming the nominees, but since those awards are not as important, its not going to be changed.