The Steam Awards 2023 results are out and they’re a meme – Hogwarts Legacy winning the Best Game on Steam Deck Award
The Steam Awards 2023 results are out and they’re a meme – Hogwarts Legacy winning the Best Game on Steam Deck Award
I think a problem is that people are compelled to vote on every catagory to get that sweet, sweet useless gift. Making them vote for the only name they have played and/or heard of in every catagory.
There's this, and there's just trolling, like giving most innovative gameplay to Starfield. The internet's gonna internet, what can you do.
The issue starts even earlier, with the fact that you're encouraged to nominate games that you may not have even played. I think the only game released this year that I've played was Cities: Skylines 2, which I didn't feel deserved anything, so I just punched in whatever games I could find that had released this year.
And then, yeah, I totally just clicked choices for all the votes for awards too. I didn't really care, I didn't play any of the choices anyway.
I did the exact same thing.
This year you could skip a category, and it would still count towards the badge / stickers / whatever, but I don't think that was made clear at a glance. It was explained in the FAQ, but who reads that, when you could just click whatever and be done?
Maybe that was just for the nominations though, I don't remember checking for the actual vote.
It is crazy how Steam users seem to interact with the platform exclusively in bad faith. The reviews are filled with memes, joke reviews and drama. You will lose IQ points just by opening the forums. And of course, people troll the awards. Not that I would expect a mainstream gaming platform to attract geniuses, but Steam community is definitely bottom of the barrel.
What platforms have you been frequenting (or avoiding) where steam is the bottom of the barrel?
Honestly, steam reviews are far more useful than most review systems. Ign or metacritic are nearly useless in comparison.
I knew this year's awards were a joke the second I saw Starfield nominated for (and subsequently winning) 'most innovative gameplay.'
I feels like this sort of article pops up every single year after Steam Award. I remember the first year steam award started it's basically the same "issue", where game that people think don't deserve the award are given one.
At this point the steam awards is just advertising. We don’t have proof of voting bots because Valve exclusively keeps things in secret.
Enough drama, this isn't the place to argue. Locking the thread.