So, Uh, What's Up With The Steam Awards?
So, Uh, What's Up With The Steam Awards?
Red Dead Redemption II got an award for its continued support, despite barely receiving any updates since 2021
Red Dead Redemption II got an award for its continued support, despite barely receiving any updates since 2021
I feel as if the Starfield and RDR2 awards almost have to be sarcastically awarded.
The Starfield one has to be a result of sarcasm, there's no way. I burst with laughter when I saw that one.
Welcome to popularity contests. They are awarded irrespective of skill or effort, only if they hit the right buttons to the masses.
Does anyone pay attention to Steam awards? They're just popularity contests.
I don't know if they did it this year, but in the past they incentivized voting. So people would vote for whatever they'd heard of even if they'd never played the games.
I was only allowed to vote on what I owned. Even if I had never played it or barely played it. I think this is the major reason they are so weird.
I also didn't receive the sticker awards for voting in it either.
That shouldn't have been the case, I voted on things that I don't own
That kind of system ensures it is a popularity contest.
What other kind of contest would it be? Even if you let people vote for anything (even stuff they haven't played/owned). It would probably be even more of a popularity contest if you let people do that: they'd vote for the games they believe are better based on the internet vibes, even if they have no experience with those games.
Are you sure? I could vote for games which I did not own. And I did that, to get the stickers associated with the votes.
"What's up" is that people are stupid and don't know things. Popular vote awards (and national elections!) always suffer from lazy ignorance.
People will never be satisfied with awards. Let the community choose? You get popularity contest. Let the review outlets choose? Then you get only a certain kind of games to win the contest. Steam is very community focused in most of their recommendations and in this case, awards. This has ups and downs and sometimes its stupid. In case of RDR2 who knows what the reason was why they chose this game. It might be an attempt to troll in mass. Or a misunderstanding.
I take awards as one kind of view and never in isolation. Context matters. So I ignore those where I think it is stupid awards, like Starfield and RDR2, and look at the other candidates. And the other categories as well. And then move on with my life. Just like with the other award shows. Who cares what game won what award? It rarely impacts my choice.
Armored Core wasn't even a runner up on any of the categories, while FC24 was in like 3 of them. I completely give up.