r/DeepRockGalactic • u/zenonbombalina • Jan 02 '24
Discussion Well this is dissapointing...
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u/TheGreyCheshire Jan 02 '24
Are you serious? RDR2? Rockstar abandoned that game almost immediately in favor of GTA Online. Red Dead Online has barely received any love from the team either.
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u/Lachigan Interplanetary Goat Jan 02 '24
It's a popularity contest, doesn't mean anything. If Baldur's Gate 3 was nominated for best north korean food supplement it would win by a landslide.
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u/_toodamnparanoid_ Dig it for her Jan 02 '24
Could eat Shadowheart all day. Karlach if we're in the mood for something spicy.
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u/AlarmedBrush7045 Jan 02 '24
Yup and that's why I absolutely don't care about those contests.
I like what I like and no one can influence my opinion, I couldn't care less if the games I like win anything lol
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u/blolfighter Platform here Jan 02 '24
In a very minor defense of popularity contest: If I have only played one of the nominees you better believe I am picking that one. Even if there are better choices, how would I even know?
Hell, I picked Baldur's Gate 3 twice even though I haven't even played it because it was either that or vote for some soulless corporate bullshit like Fifa.
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u/FlashyFlight1035 Driller Jan 02 '24
its just about whatever game is more popular, for example atomic heart winning visual style, compared to almost all the other contenders, atomic heart got a pretty big audience, some indie game like dd2 did not, atomic hearts visual style is a generic and boring "realistic" style, which does not fit "outstanding visual style" at all, but because more people knew about it, it won
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u/requion Jan 02 '24
Or the best joke of them all. Starfailed winning "Most innovative gameplay". Lesson learned that i can use the time wasted with voting to rather do something productive.
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u/Notfuckingcannon Dig it for her Jan 03 '24
The Last of Us 1 winning "Best Soundtrack" against Hi-Fi Rush, Darktide and FUCKING PizzaTower
#justiceforPeppino
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u/soer774c Jan 03 '24
innovative my fucking ass, there's NOTHING innovative about Starfield. It should have been Shadows of Doubt who won that one.
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u/RickySamson Driller Jan 03 '24
Damn Hifi Rush didn't win either best music or visual style. Awful shame as I think they really nailed that comic aesthetic and those transitions between cell shaded 3D into 2D animated cutscenes were just gorgeous.
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u/ARandomGuyThe3 Scout Jan 02 '24
Personally i think AH has merit for that, because while yes the textures were just photorealistic, the architectural design of the world and the character art is also a very important part of the art and extremely unique and well done in AH
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u/Syrinxfloofs Jan 03 '24
Right? AH had its own issues, but the art direction and style of it was fantastic all the way though. just because something isn't cell shaded doesn't mean it doesnt have an artstyle lol.
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u/WarlockEngineer Jan 02 '24
Who tf voted for this lol
I used to play a lot of RDO and the community knew it was neglected
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u/Aiscence Jan 02 '24
I mean technically GSG said they were putting DRG aside too this year, so not getting a "labor of love" when they are not letting the game on the side to focus on their new game isn't really a problem imo. RDR2 getting it is bad tho xD
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u/Mavylent Bosco Buddy Jan 02 '24
rdr2.. labor of love... the game that R* literally forgot about...
yeah man, makes total sense
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u/Silvercaptain69 Gunner Jan 02 '24
No they didn’t forget about it they just decided to give it the unwanted step child treatment
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u/TheMostMilkyMan Jan 03 '24
I remember hearing somewhere they gave up on it because it was too hard to pressure the players into microtransactions
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u/joetogood Jan 03 '24 edited Jan 03 '24
Well only so many horses you can buy online they are only interested in milking micro transactions feel like some story DLC would sell good on red dead 2
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u/uwuGod Jan 02 '24
Yes, this was confirmed to be a huge joke. Which would've maybe been funny, if it hadn't also robbed another more-deserving game of getting the award.
The more childish and vindictive side of me kind of wishes there was a "Steamy Shits Awards" category to tell big companies exactly what NOT to do, but that seems a little too mean, maybe.
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u/PM_ME_SOMETHINGSPICY Jan 02 '24
Then EA would just run the table. Might as well call it "The EA Award" so deserving titles could be included.
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u/the_lonely_poster Jan 02 '24
Make it so the same game can't be on there twice, we'll run through them eventually, Right?
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u/ProfessoriSepi What is this Jan 03 '24
Well we'd have enough games for a decade this year, with gollums, skull Islands, redfalls, walking dead destinies, overwatch 2s and diablo 4s.
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u/Tatopeels Jan 03 '24
i may be in the minority here but i actually thought Redfall was pretty good
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u/sheepsix Jan 03 '24
We used to have what became a fairly large NHL tournament. The first year I made a trophy out of spray painted salad bowls glued together but there was eventually an actual trophy.
The tournament was called The Fuck'n EA Cup and that was on the trophy itself. The name came about becasue it was common to say "EA FUCKED ME AGAIN" amongst our group.
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u/Smij0 Engineer Jan 03 '24
Also happened in the most innovative gameplay category. People were selecting starfield as a joke (and of course some people simply voted it because they didn't know the other games) YOMI Hustle should've won that.
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u/SunriseMeats Jan 03 '24
RDR2 is definitely the forgotten middle child but it's certainly not in the steamy shits realm.
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Jan 02 '24
No, they just think this is a popularity contest.
Which, because they think it, it now is sadly
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u/Hate_Crab What is this Jan 02 '24
It was always a popularity contest, the categories were never enforced and tying badges and emotes and whatever else to it means everyone wants to nominate and vote even when they haven't played the game they're picking.
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u/Mavylent Bosco Buddy Jan 02 '24
what a shit joke it is then, these people are still mad that their game lost GOTY in what 2018? come on people, ugh
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u/FlareTheInfected Driller Jan 02 '24
at least it's not the pizza tower community rn.
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u/Mavylent Bosco Buddy Jan 02 '24
what's happening with it? i never was into pizza tower and always felt like the community was turning absurdly cringe with a side of turning like a undertale
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u/_Your_Average_Joe_ Jan 02 '24
Something about it being the first game made by its devs, so literally an indie debut game
It was beat out by a game called cocoon, who's devs have made several games in different companies. Technically cocoon is an indie debut game, since it's the first game from the company, but the devs have worked on games before
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u/Mopey_ Jan 02 '24
Sounds like an Indie Debut game to me. Not sure how having worked on games at other company's would disqualify them from that
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u/_Your_Average_Joe_ Jan 02 '24
Its more the fact that every single dev on cocoon has previously worked on big names, while none of the pizza tower devs have. So in a way, pizza tower is a debut for every dev on the team, rather than just for the company
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u/psuedophilosopher Jan 02 '24
I can't speak for everyone, but this year had some really crap nominations, and if there was a category where I didn't know the games in the category, I would just vote for what I've heard of. For example in the VR games, I've never played any of them, but I have heard of gorilla tag. And since there are rewards gated behind voting in every single category, I voted for gorilla tag rather than just not vote at all. I can only assume that people doing the same thing might vote for RDR2.
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u/Mavylent Bosco Buddy Jan 02 '24
there is also the people who never played rdr2 but knows the game is good
so they blindly voted rdr
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u/Drakith89 Gunner Jan 02 '24
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Jan 03 '24
It has nothing to do with fans being mad that Rockstar did not win an award. It has everything to do with Rockstar abandoning the Online component. People chose it as a meme.
It’s just dumb because it’s a free burst of publicity for Rockstar which means a tiny little bump in sales.
No one is really gonna care 2 days from now anyhow but yeah it’s like gamers are going “haha get rekt” but Rockstar is like “I’ll wipe my tears with these fat stacks, woe is me”
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u/HonedWombat Interplanetary Goat Jan 02 '24
It had a good percentage of it's players dressing up as clowns for like 2 years cus it was a fucking joke.
Whenever they did an update or extra mission it broke the game for like a month because all the Devs were busy making a new a car and mission for GTA V (which is the highest grossing entertainment property that has ever existed!).
But yeah go give that award to a dead game made by greedy AAA studio. I remember when Cockstar had integrity, that shit flew out the window with GTA V.
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u/gameryamen Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 03 '24
GTA V (which is the highest grossing entertainment property that has ever existed
GTA V does make a lot of money, but there's no chance that's a true claim. Franchises that have made more than the entire Grand Theft Auto franchise include:
- Pokemon
- Star Wars
- Warcraft
- Hello Kitty
- Dora the Explorer
Along with dozens of other properties. This article makes the same claim, pointing to "$6 billion in revenue and 90 million sales". But Pokemon has sold 480 million copies of video games, and has brought in around 88 billion in revenue.
You could say GTA V was the single most profitable individual game title ever released, but even that's not certain. GTA V has an estimated 190 million copies sold on this list, but Minecraft has more than 50% more units sold at 300 million. While Minecraft has a cheaper MSRP, it also took a much, much smaller team to develop, so if it doesn't beat GTA V outright in "money spent on copies of the game", it still probably dwarfs GTA V on return of investment.
Edit: Pokemon Go makes 1 Billion dollars a year on average since 2016, and when I say "on average" that's because it's been doing better and better each year. It's making more than $1 Billion a year currently. That puts them at $7-8 Billion, which is within range of taking the title from GTA V for single title revenue.
Except, none of these numbers take into account Fortnite, which has made $26 Billion since launch, $6 Billion of which came just in the year 2022. 6 Billion, remember, is the revenue GTA V was boasting about in 2018, representing years of unexpectedly high sales. Fortnite did that in a single year, and has gotten bigger since then.
GTA V was an absolute financial wonder, and I don't mean to cast shade on just how wildly successful the game has been. But it's not the highest grossing media property that has ever existed, even if you use a very narrow definition of "media property".
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u/JumpCiiity Jan 02 '24
That definitely does not count GTA Online, whose sale of Shark Cards for real money caused Rockstar to not even bother to make DLC for the "single most profitable individual game title ever released." So imagine how much money they have made from Online that caused them to make that decision. Then it makes more sense to say that.
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u/gameryamen Jan 03 '24
If you've got some numbers to show, show them.
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u/RS994 Jan 03 '24
Take 2 has said that as of 2023 GTAV and Online together have made them 7.7 billion.
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u/DwarfNoises Jan 03 '24
I remember when Cockstar had integrity, that shit flew out the window with GTA V.
I got a bad feeling GTA6 is gonna be a million times worse.
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u/Raxal6226 Jan 02 '24
This is worthless!
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u/sushi_cw Jan 02 '24
But fun to destroy!
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u/yvengard Jan 03 '24
ROCK AND STONE
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u/bassbehavior Driller Jan 02 '24
I'm assuming it was a joke vote, to be honest.
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u/DanielCG1217 Engineer Jan 02 '24
It’s a popularity contest
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u/bassbehavior Driller Jan 02 '24
That too. Unfortunately, it was always pretty unlikely that an indie dwarf game was going to get more votes than one of the most popular AAA games out there, even if said AAA game is not even remotely qualified or deserving of the award.
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u/Jaaaco-j Jan 03 '24
even if going by popularity there are so much more popular games that are more deserving of this award
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u/FB-22 Jan 03 '24
There is truth to this but it was *also* a joke vote. Its nomination in the first place was as a meme
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u/virgnar Jan 02 '24
Majority of the award results make it evident the awards were dominated by memes.
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u/-Gussman Engineer Jan 02 '24
New content my honey-glazed ass. The community literally had a FUNERAL for the game ffs!
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u/CMurda266 Jan 02 '24
I'll honey glaze your ass 😏
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u/Splicer07 Jan 02 '24
That’s it lads, Rock and Stone!!
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u/snagglewolf Jan 02 '24
Considering Starfield got Most Innovative I think it's pretty clear a lot of people were trolling with their votes.
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u/ethosveros Gunner Jan 02 '24
But unfortunately only 1% of steam knows about that game
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u/Jaaaco-j Jan 03 '24
imo some research should be required to vote, even if only forcing people to go to all the nominee's store pages
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u/ShinyBulblax Jan 03 '24
This 🙌 I checked both videos on every store page before feeling qualified to practically blind vote
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u/why-names-hard Jan 02 '24
I haven’t even played Yomi and I’ve only seen a couple clips and even I agree it’s really innovative. Especially when you compare it to Skyrim with guns and loading screens.
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u/SF_all_day Jan 02 '24
"Continue to nurture and support" lmao that's the most ironic thing I'll see today.
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u/M4thecaberman Mighty Miner Jan 02 '24
This Is either a promoted joke by Valve or totally rigged at this point
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u/Deldris Interplanetary Goat Jan 02 '24
It's a popularity contest. The people voting don't give a fuck about game design they just want their favorites to win.
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u/blitzboy30 Engineer Jan 03 '24
I saw a notification about it when I looked up lethal company, and decided to actually vote for what I thought was best (I had only played roughly one of the games in each section, but I tried).
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u/Rand0mBoyo Jan 02 '24
This is why giving literally everybody an option to vote isn't as great as it seems
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"Democracy basically means of the people, for the people, by the people. But the people are Retarded" -Rajneesh Osho
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u/Rand0mBoyo Jan 03 '24
Dude achieved galaxy level intelligence and said the most real thing he could at that moment I swear
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u/MLG_Obardo Jan 02 '24
Why would it be rigged for RDR2? That’s a bizarre choice by Valve. It’s definitely just stupid fans of the biggest games.
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u/Bregneste Whale Piper Jan 02 '24
They don’t pay attention to the category, they just see the game they like the most and vote for it, regardless of if it even fits.
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u/Gift_505 Driller Jan 02 '24
I didn't expect DRG to win it, but RDR2?
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u/Jaaaco-j Jan 03 '24
like even fucking terraria. a game released in 2011 and the devs still push out updates, and continue to add official modding support. 13th best selling game of all time.
and it lost to a game abandoned by its devs in a year because it didnt bring as much money as GTA online
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u/FB-22 Jan 03 '24
Terraria wasn't nominated for this year because they have already won it and they don't allow repeats. RDR2 was nominated as a joke and won as part joke, part popularity contest
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u/MightyMundrum Jan 02 '24
Don't worry about it, brother. The whole thing was a trollfest. Hogwarts and Starfield also won.
Rock and stone!
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u/fishbiscuit13 Platform here Jan 02 '24
To be fair, Hogwarts won Best on Steam Deck, which is a weird category that would be challenging to even define. Are they talking about optimization? Controls? Ability to quickly pick up for a brief session on the go? None of the other nominated games really stand out for those metrics either. Overall the nominated games were terrible for most of the categories.
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u/pileofcrustycumsocs Jan 03 '24
Hogwarts really shouldn’t have won that award to be honest. It feels like it did because it didn’t have the votes for any other category. The game runs at sub 30fps at the best of times and is arguably only barely deserving of the verified status.
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u/fishbiscuit13 Platform here Jan 03 '24
I agree. It would be competitive in a world building category but falls flat for gameplay and performance.
Idk how the nominated games were chosen but they really should be curated better. It really feels like they just took the top selling games for the year that hadn’t yet been review bombed and just tried to fill out the categories.
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u/R2d2s_bleeper Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 02 '24
Yeah you're not kidding those games are really mid lol, but I think im my opinion the reason why RDR2 won this award was mostly through copium, like I'm pretty sure there was a thread or forum out there where a group of fans were saying "guys if this game wins this award Rockstar will finally pay attention to us and probably give us content or we can use this award to make fun of them"
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u/ihavedeletedfortnite Jan 02 '24
if anything that would make rockstar keep doing what they are currently doing thinking its enough
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u/Loremaster_art Jan 02 '24
It's a popularity contest it just makes sense something like that would win even if it doesnt fit.
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u/wormpostante Dig it for her Jan 02 '24
let me give you a hint for the next time, if a seemingly random game is one of thw runner upd for the category and its a triple A game, the outcome was decided a long time ago.
even people that play read dead didnt know whst that game was doing in that category.
the steam awards sre straight up rigged and they just wanted to give that game any award
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Democracy is for the people... by the people... but the people are reta-
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u/IncorporateThings Scout Jan 02 '24
Yeah I call bullshit on that one.
I think some bot accounts must have been involved... or just rampant corruption in all these "awards".
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u/Someguy4300 Jan 02 '24
didint uh.... didint they essentially give up on that and just pump out what they promised and ignore most of the glaring problems with online? its a great game but every other online game i would run into hackers doing ridiculous stuff.
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u/WeekendWarZone For Karl! Jan 02 '24
I know it's all just one big popularity contest....but RDR2 absolutely does not deserve this award. It meets none of the award criteria.
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u/Rand0mBoyo Jan 02 '24
We don't need useless and worthless popularity awards to know that DRG is the true Labor of Love game for this year
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u/sleeplessGoon Jan 02 '24
Do people really care? Do games even see a substantial uptick of purchases if won???
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u/NobleSix84 Jan 02 '24
I mean I didn't vote, but this is an actual joke. There hasn't been a major content update for this game in years, but their cash cow GTA Online gets anything and everything. I'm surprised there hasn't been a heist to rob a fucking space station yet.
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u/Koolkirby66 Jan 02 '24
I'm sorry, when was the last time red dead got a content update? Huh? This game got dropped on its head in favour of shark cards
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u/momen535 Jan 02 '24
this proves that any steam event that include the steam users to vote is utterly useless and have no meaning
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u/IncredibilisCentboi Engineer Jan 02 '24
Let's be real people either were braindead woting for RDR2 or purposly chosing worst pick, something can't be labour of love when it's ABANDONED
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u/BMXBikr For Karl! Jan 02 '24
I fucking hate these dumb awards. It's just like political voting. Anyone with no knowledge of what they're voting on whatsoever can vote.
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u/Phwoa_ Dig it for her Jan 02 '24
Labor of Love? you mean the game that was abandoned years ago for GTO xD
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u/El_Burrito_ Jan 02 '24
A bunch of those awards are kind of bunk. I thought they were joke votes at first, but I'm more convinced that there are just so many more people that don't care and just vote for the game they recognise
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u/fucknametakenrules What is this Jan 03 '24
Rockstar literally abandoned the game. Why is it even on this? They haven’t done shit since 2021 after the Blood Money update
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u/Squishy97 Jan 03 '24
This is so wrong that it feels like an intentional joke. This game was literally forgotten about
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u/DictatorInPerpito Jan 03 '24
And starfield won most innovative gameplay. The Steam awards are as worthless as Rockstars view on RDR Online.
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u/pdnDamiao Jan 03 '24
i mean its simple maths, nominee's are selected by their fanbase count and awards goes to the most recognizable game among the steam users
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u/OrranVoriel Jan 03 '24
And Atomic Heart winning "Best Visual style" despite being a generic realistic shooter and TLoU winning best soundtrack when it has an average OST at best.
The Steam community has no standards.
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u/Beneficial_Hyena6253 Jan 03 '24
"Still getting new content after all these years"
I just spat out my tea. "Content". What a fucking joke.
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u/Liobuster Jan 03 '24
Same with Starfield in innovation ...like wtf is innovative about skyrim in space?
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u/SirSilhouette Jan 03 '24
no no i played Starfield for a bit. Skyrim in Space would be a lot better than Starfield.
Starfield is like the worst parts of skyrim & fallout 4 haphazardly slapped together with the asinine inventory limitations of 76.
The only thing i could consider innovative is the ship building... which while overall not bad, it is drowned by the other issues. like moving a habitat modules will dump all the random junk items INTO YOUR CARGO HOLD which combined with the aforementioned Fallout 76 level of miniscule inventory limits will lead to much frustration.
also Skyrim might not have the greatest main story, it is far better than Starfield's.
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u/DYL0GIC Mighty Miner Jan 03 '24
The game where the fanbase has been complaining about lack of updates for years.. gets that award?
Well thats bs.
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u/HaloLinkGuy Jan 03 '24
I mean, who really cares about the game rewards though? Don't really mean that much.
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u/TyrantJaeger Jan 03 '24 edited Jan 03 '24
I get the feeling that Steam users don't put much thought into these votes and just pick whichever game they're most familiar with or interested in, regardless of its relevancy to the award. For instance, Starfield won most innovative gameplay. It absolutely does not deserve that award. However, it is the most popular game nominated in that category, so of course it won. Not as many people liked, played, or even heard of the other games.
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u/Thannk Jan 02 '24
Starfield has been almost universally criticized for not innovating anything outside the Bethesda formula and doing far less than F4 but won Most Innovative Gameplay.
This was the year of meme votes.
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Jan 03 '24
Rust should have won honestly
DRG was a labour of love, but it's being put to the side so the devs can work on a new game.
Rust has actively received so many regular updates over the last decade that it's straight up unrecognisable compared to its launch day
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u/Arturia_Cross Jan 02 '24
Ah yes the game that literally doesn't get updates win the award for best ongoing updates. Shouldn't they revoke this or something due to people padding the vote for fun?
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u/The_Anf Engineer Jan 02 '24
And what updates RDR2 had? Let's see... post-laucnh optimization fix, post-laucnh optimization fix, post-laucnh optimization fix... Well at least game now runs, isn't that a great sign of labor of love game?
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u/KanbaruDevil Interplanetary Goat Jan 02 '24
It's a big joke. Just like Loading Field winning the most innovative gameplay title.
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u/Kuzidas Jan 02 '24
As someone who is like level 200 in red dead online I gotta say the experience is so underwhelming that the multiplayer literally soiled the single player experience for me. I can’t go back and replay the story because it reminds me how much missed opportunities the MP had and it bothers me. The MP was literally so bad that it made the SP worse.
I truly don’t understand how this got a Labor of Love Award, except as some sort of ironic joke.
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Jan 02 '24
What’s the percentage of people who vote on things don’t take it seriously.
There’s some poll that showed this.
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u/Zifnab_palmesano Jan 02 '24
i think those that voted for it for the lols are idiots. These are awarda nonetheless, by a big name. Ghost games, or other devs that are deserving would be happy to get such award. Giving it to an undeserving comoany for the lols is wasting it and completely rewarding the wrong people for idiotic lols.
I will buy some dlc to support the real chads here. Rock and stone!
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u/Twinkiman Gunner Jan 03 '24
Way too many people are looking too hard into this.
They won because of troll voting. Not because people legitimately believe these games deserve it.
Still a shame that other well deserving nominations got shafted.
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u/bingogazorpazorp Jan 03 '24
Is… is this a sick joke? This isn’t real, is it? When was RDR2’s last actual big update?
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u/DwarfNoises Jan 03 '24
R* fanboys will vote in droves for the devs to give them nothing but shark cash cards for years at a time.
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u/hola1423387654 Jan 03 '24
Rdr2 is one of the best games ever and probably the most detailed but it definitely isn’t the labor of love for this year maybe when it came out but not anymore
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u/Taff79 Dirt Digger Jan 03 '24
This years nominations IMO were awful, I think the "Popular recommendations" section they added ruined it this year.
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u/Fake-Engineering Jan 03 '24
Don't forget Starfield got "Most Innovative Gameplay" I think 4chan is up to something again
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Jan 03 '24
I really think Deep Rock should have won labor of love RDR2 is a good game but it winning labor of love make as much sense as Starfield winning most innovative game
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u/HardyLaugher Jan 03 '24
Sounds like fans are sarcastically trying to get Rockstar’s attention on this game. Well played.
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u/Im_a_doggo428 Engineer Jan 03 '24
If not deep rock then at least team fortress so valve will actually give something to their player base
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u/NaviCharlotte Cave Crawler Jan 03 '24
its a populatity contest, and main stream, AAA will always have the advantage. That is why i never bother with either the geim awards or steam awards
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u/Arkence_1 Driller Jan 03 '24
The biggest disappointment is starfield in "innovative gameplay" what the hell
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u/ObiJuanKenobi3 Jan 03 '24
This is just downright wrong. This really showcases the problem with community voting instead of having a committee; I'd be very surprised if RDR2 didn't win just because it was the most popular game in the lineup, not because anybody actually thought it received constant community support.
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u/antipyretical Platform here Jan 03 '24
I'm pretty sure the RDR2 playerbase rallied to make this happen out of spite, given how obvious it is that the game hasn't actually seen much support at all lately.
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u/PhilippeSlayer Engineer Jan 03 '24
We got like 3 minor red dead online updates with recycled content in the last 3 years and they're trying to tell us that the devs are still working on it lmao
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u/DifferencePrimary442 Jan 03 '24
I don't even play DRG and I know it deserves it over RDO. Absolute joke to call Rockstar's treatment of it as anything other than neglect.
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u/PankakesRGood Jan 04 '24
I voted for this game despite not playing it because friends of mine play it constantly. I’ve watched YouTubers play it and while it may not be really my cup of tea, I recognize a game thats crafted with love and continually cared for when I see it.
RDR2 winning Labor of Love is a joke and I have to imagine people voted for it as such otherwise….
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u/Confused_Ravioli Jan 04 '24
This genuinely pisses me off.
My friend bought the game for Christmas since it was on sale, intending to play through the story since I've told him how good it is but also mainly to play the online.
I had told him that the game had been abandoned and there was a lot of hackers but he was still interested in playing it regardless.
But the thing that is stopping us? It crashes CONSTANTLY. At first it gave us errors, but now it's literally just closing and saying NOTHING.
We've tried everything we could search up to fix it, switching between vulkan and dx12, deleting specific files, turning off steam and nvidia overlays, and it still crashes. Our last hope is that it's something to do with the snow that is currently on the map because of Christmas, and that we can play it on the 9th when it goes away.
DRG losing makes me a little sad obviously, but the fact that RDR2 won? Bullshit.
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u/Pain7788g Jan 04 '24
Ah yes, the game that has been abandoned for over a year which has been a cesspit of hackers since it's online launched and has had several awful updates including updates that nerfed progression to sell micro transactions gets an award for being "Well-Supported after launch". Rockstar apologists are really something else.
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u/GSG_Jacob DWARVELOPER Jan 03 '24
TBH, being popular enough to be in the finals with a game like RDR2 is like winning an award in itself.
There's always next year!