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The Game Awards Needs To Drop The Act And Just Become Winter E3 (kotaku.com)

submitted 9 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] videogamesandbeer@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

They're not an expo, though. What they're doing is working for them. There's no need to try and be anything else.

Edit: After actually reading the article, I agree with the complaints. The award show aspect has fallen to the wayside and they should drop the act or do it differently.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that it feels really disrespectful to the people winning awards. Sometimes they group awards together to "get them out of the way". Most awards don't even get speeches, they just say X won the award and instantly move on.

And when someone does win the award, everyone wants them to get off the stage because people are here for the trailers, not the actual game awards part. They give them maybe a minute before slowly ramping up the music (their cue for getting off the stage). The guy that won best performer for baldur's gate 3 was speedrunning his speech and even then they played music over him at the end. They have zero respect for the game award part honestly.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 9 months ago

Honestly tho, who cares about the trailers? Give the guys a minute to enjoy the award, the trailers will be on youtube 10 minutes afterwards anyway.

Fuck the ads, let the poor fuckers thank their moms and coworkers

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 9 months ago

I popped into a streamer watching the awards in time to watch the guy with the mic read names as fast as he could and announced 3 awards in what felt like a minute, only for 5-15 minute ads to play afterwards.

Is this an awards show or not? Are they embarassed to hand out awards?