That's not really how live release games work, and it would be relatively unfair for the game to be ineligible to be recognized for its work put into it under those confines.
Genshin didn't "come out" three years ago in the same way other games do. Basically, how games like Genshin or Destiny or what have you work is that they release what is essentially a wireframe of the game initially, and then release what is effectively an entirely new game every year or so. For clarification's sake I've been referring to the releases as "expansions" in conversations like this, which is a suitable enough comparison since expansion packs, if large enough, have always been treated as eligible for awards just as main releases are.
Every major release for a game like this is comparable to a new release, and discounting that work would be significantly worse than the alternative.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 8th 2022 at 11:49:10 AM

I think that a game that came out years ago shouldn't keep getting nominations just because it gets updates. Genshin should have won the popular vote in 2019 and nobody would have cared.