• ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    If we could just keep this trend of having the game awards completely snuff the big studios, that’d be great.

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      11 hours ago

      does seem weird to me to just give all the awards to one game, but then critic-awards shows always have been kind of a joke

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      19 hours ago

      “We’ve picked one game and we’re giving every award to that game because it’s the best game at everything and have you played the game yet? You should it’s so good it’s just the best at everything.”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Interactive

      Kepler Interactive was founded in September 2021 at the initiative of former Ubisoft employee and French entrepreneur Alexis Garavayan, who had previously co-founded the video game investment fund Kowloon Nights. Self-described as a “super developer” publishing group, Kepler was born out of an alliance between seven independent studios to “pool their resources and knowledge”:

      Hedge Fund ass publisher. Come on, guys. The Gaming Awards have always just been sponsored content and you’re getting hoodwinked because you don’t recognize the sponsor this time around.

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        13 hours ago

        Are you trying to say that any game that gets funding of any kind is automatically not worthy of winning?

        I’m perfectly fine with people making money in exchange for an excellent product, and Expedition 33 is a fucking masterpiece.

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          6 hours ago

          I won’t say E33 didn’t deserve to win an award, it definitely did. But I will absolutely say with certainty it did not deserve to be nominated in so many categories and proceed to win basically every category.

          Having an award show give awards to only one nominee feels bad for everyone except the show runners, that one nominee, and their fans. Lots of games deserved to be there that simply weren’t, and lots of nominees deserved to win but didn’t simply because E33 won this year’s popularity contest.

          For example, Best Performance should not have been allowed to have 50% of the nominees be from the same game (E33, in this case).

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          11 hours ago

          Are you trying to say that any game that gets funding of any kind is automatically not worthy of winning?

          ??? How did you get here?

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        18 hours ago

        But it was the best at pretty much everything.

        Other than best RPG, that should’ve gone to kingdome come deliverance 2 imo, but like e33 winning that isn’t unreasonable.

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          9 hours ago

          Indie title should have honestly gone to Silksong, and the Making a Difference award probably had worthier games.

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            7 hours ago

            Silk Song had x33 beat by almost triple the max player count. the fact that it didn’t get the inde title and they gave it to X33 is criminal. Silk Song beat it on price and player count and arguably story.