If Genshin wins again, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s out right booing in the audience.
The game came out in 2020, therefore it has no right being nominated for any year other than 2020.
Not to mention Genshin as the fore front of last year’s biggest controversy.
Not like I’m actually gonna give the game a chance because of its genre..gacha. After all, all gacha is Diablo Immortal.
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I don't think it would do much of anything, because that's exactly what happened last year. The whole "vote for Genshin for free currency" thing was made up by haters to drum up more support for Sonic. Ironically, that probably contributed to Genshin's win not just because Genshin fans were fooled, but because some racist comments by Sonic fans about Chinese people and bribery went memetic on Chinese social media and sent Asia on a goddamn crusade to make sure Genshin won.
On that note, I've seen nobody say that they think Genshin needs to win, but a hell of a lot of people saying that they're voting for Genshin because they'd love to see everyone who threw temper tantrums last year absolutely explode.
Does anyone actually read these?Starfield and Genshin Impact should fight.
Genshin Impact will probably win, but by then the awards will be over and those two will be out of commission for awhile regardless.
(I have never played Starfield and have no desire to play Starfield so making fun of it is sort of mean but it's Bethesda and Microsoft so I'm okay with being a little mean.)
You are not alone.I do want to note that Genshin did give out currency for winning the Play Station partner award. Star rail gave the same amount for being nominated for google and apple awards.
Players arnt expecting any more really.
The easiest way is to have a "Best Ongoing Game" category (or multiple, if you want multiple for art design and soundtrack and such) for games as a service and stick nominations there, while otherwise only allowing games from the current year. Genshin did just release a monster update a few months ago that made huge QOL improvements and added underwater gameplay, that's probably where the nominations came from. Plus the memes from last year and it beating Sonic Frontiers.
Edited by PhiSat on Dec 5th 2023 at 12:08:11 PM
Oissu!The game came out in 2020, therefore it has no right being nominated for any year other than 2020.
That's not how live game development works, no.
Genshin is, effectively, a game that comes out with a massive new expansion every year. Each of these new installments is eligible for an award, because each of these is effectively a sequel to the original game under the heading of the first one.
As an awards ceremony, you'd have be being really pedantic to only consider the game eligible for the year it came out and nothing else.
IE, how Destiny II: Season of the Witch would be eligible for an award if it was nominated, because it just came out just, even though the original Destiny II game out ages ago.
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I don't know about this year, but it's definitely happened before.
The Game Awards is ostensibly there to reward work and development in the industry, and the popularity of that ongoing work and development with the gaming community. It's kind of baffling people think they would genuinely invalidate the kind of work that goes into game development entirely on what is basically a technicality.
It's true, we're definitely we're in a situation with Genshin of having a type of game that functions and has a significantly different release and development process than most other games, but it would be far worse to have it be rendered ineligible for recognition due to that difference than the current alternative they're doing.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 5th 2023 at 11:56:17 AM

Surprised Star Rail was filtered out.
Edited by Memers on Dec 4th 2023 at 2:58:59 AM