• The Octonaut@mander.xyz
      681·
      10 个月前

      This, Starfield winning ‘innovation’, Cities Skylines 2 winning ‘strategy’ - pretty sure the infamous hacker known as 4chan was behind this.

    • Jumi@lemmy.world
      224·
      10 个月前

      When you vote for the Steam awards you have to choose a game for every award to be able to submit it so people just don’t care for some and put it any game they liked and enjoyed. Also, a lot of people probably don’t read the award’s name and just put in anything.

      • Alto@kbin.social
        161·
        10 个月前

        That’s simply not true. I skipped multiple categories, including this one, because I didn’t have a good answer to give.

        • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.de
          17·
          10 个月前

          Because your didn’t want to have all the stupid stickers. You need to vote for something to get them. So people who are just there for the stickers vote for anything.

          Edit: saw in the comment before that the author mentioned you needed to vote for all to submit, and that’s what you answered to. You are right. You were able to submit single votes.

    • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      10 个月前

      Which pointed out to me just how little I care about award shows and competitions. The only thing that will come of an ironic vote is unironic positive press.

  • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    337·
    10 个月前

    This was more a steam f@#£ up. They required you to vote in all categories, to vote in any. This led to many people just voting for the one they knew about or vaguely liked, in categories they weren’t interested in.

    • wethan2@kbin.social
      51·
      10 个月前

      It did not, you could just not select one and keep scrolling. They did however reward you with stickers for voting in each category which probably had the same result

      • Alto@kbin.social
        12·
        10 个月前

        Seriously, I keep seeing people parrot that and I don’t get it. Do you guys not have scroll wheels?

        • steal_your_face@lemmy.mlEnglish
          8·
          10 个月前

          It wasn’t required to vote in all categories but they encouraged you to do so via ui elements and steam rewards.

    • Meseta@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      10 个月前

      You could definitely skip categories – I don’t have a VR headset so I didn’t vote for best VR game.

      I’m pretty sure a few of the wins were trolls, RDR2 won labor of love, Starfield won most innovative gameplay, Last of Us 1 won best soundtrack (this one might not be a troll, but I believe it might’ve been due to the godawful PC port.)

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
    162·
    10 个月前

    Really surprised that seems like I’m the only one who’s ever looked this up. But January of last year they did update the packages on Steam. I have no idea what it was, and I’m not saying that the game should have won the award. Really it highlights a way to exploit the algorithms.

    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
      35·
      10 个月前

      On 4chan pajeet is usually used to refer to Indian people, not sure why this person would be calling rockstar fans pajeets though. Race of the fans voting doesn’t seem like it would matter to me

      • Algaroth@lemmy.world
        271·
        10 个月前

        There are vote farms in countries like India. Basically you pay for votes and people give likes or votes or whatever. Might be that. Some shady apps or upstart influencers will do it sometimes to drive up engagement.

  • Technus
    10·
    10 个月前

    I tried to play Red Dead Online a few weeks ago, got disconnected three times trying to do the first mission.

  • Default_Defect@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    10 个月前

    Hi, its me. I voted for a bunch of nonsense and am now laughing at all the people shidding and pissing about fake awards that mean nothing.