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[–] Alto@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Im pretty sure it was voted ironically

[–] Blackmist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Could also be they didn't read past the title of the award, tbh.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] lledrtx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does the last sentence mean?

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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 2 points 2 years ago

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.)