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Developers blast the celeb-laden Game Awards as 'an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation… with little respect for the devs' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It sucks because while the award has lost 'prestige' by becoming too much of a marketing gimmick it still obviously means a great deal to the teams that win. Maybe I'm too jaded on the topic but I can't watch these kind of events anymore. Unaffiliated celebrities, shitty ad slots, can't even hear the people your watching for talk for any length of time. For the viewers it's kinda a shitty thing to watch live. Catch the highlights as they make their rounds on social media.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Lost" implies it was not this at some point.

I mean, the TGAs, VGAs, Spike awards, whatever, have always have been this. Which is basically the MTV awards of gaming.

For what it's worth, the DICE awards are the ones where actual industry pros get to vote. Wihch doesn't make the results any more valuable, honestly, but at least the gala is self-congratulatory, as opposed to a thinkly veiled speedrun of what used to be the E3 keynotes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I guarantee nobody complaining now has seen the original spike tv video game awards.