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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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[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 85 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Honestly, good. Should have given them more time instead of Hollywood celebrities that, frankly, seemed embarrassed to be there. People watch the game awards to hear about gaming, not listen to Simu Liu, Matthew McConaughey, and Jordan Peele monologue with awkward jokes.

I wanna listen to the people I voted for talk about the projects they love and worked so hard on. That was a huge moment for the winners, and they were just shooed offstage like they were randos no one cared about. What a way to sour their moment.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Worst part this year was that they allowed the people advertising stuff talk endlessly but an award winner talking more than 60 seconds? Blare that music and get them off stage

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They had a giant display that counted down from 30 and then changed to "PLEASE WRAP IT UP"

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

That's awful

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 49 points 11 months ago

It was really cool to see the awards do an homage to big gaming trends by doing an any% speedrun of the actual awards in between the ad breaks

[–] Meganium97@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 11 months ago

I'd like to note that the vote for "independent games" (i.e. games without a dedicated publisher) had only one actual independent game.

[–] HonorIsDead@lemmy.world 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.

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 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.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

Don't forget the raffles for viewers that were impossible to enter and only us zip codes were accepted in the brief moment that it worked even though several countries were listed as eligible

[–] IanSomnia@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

I'd love to read the article but this is as far as I got

Reloading the page got rid of it but still wtf. Forcing me to leave your website and reload the page is idiotic.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

wow it looks like their website is completely unreadable garbage

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

JFC why use the internet at this point lol. I’d rather return to pigeons

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Two fucking inches of actual content, maybe less

[–] ech@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And this comment is just ads. Great content people.

[–] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

Root-less adblock exists. Use it. It's nearly 2024, man...

[–] PoTayToes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

How do people still live without uBlock Origin is beyond me.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Need to buy some Airpods to read the rest

[–] jdrch@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately no one cares about game devs.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I only watched some parts of the event, I can’t stand the celebrity cringe

[–] caulkandbawls@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Gonzo was cool though.

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I just had the Twitch stream on in the background, for the free Warframe.