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[Draugoth]

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Alanah Pearce, influencer and writer at Santa Monica Studio recently gave her opinion on The Game Awards. According to her, the show is nothing more than a popularity contest.

The Game Awards is an international popularity competition and is generally reflected in the votes in terms of the games with the biggest marketing budget being the games that are nominated for Game of the Year. There are undoubtedly games that I personally would have nominated that would never make the cut.

Even if I were at IGN and said, "I think Dredge should be nominated for game of the year," which I do, there's no chance of that coming out of IGN because there wouldn't be enough people in the office who would have played the game. They will play the games with the most marketing because those are the games they know.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Well yeah, she’s not wrong.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Well yeah, she’s not wrong

+nice boobs.

 

[Thabass]

She's not wrong.

You only watch it for the trailers. That's it.

 

[bender]

 

[havoc00]

 

[Draugoth]

+nice boobs.

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[The Cockatrice]

 

[Krappadizzle]

Most normal humans don't actually give a shit about the "Game of the Year" VGA's and all that stuff. They just want the sweet sweet trailers and announcements. What she's talking about is pretty much universal in almost all artistic mediums.

I do feel that BG3 kinda throws a wrench in the whole thing, as it's not nearly in a genre that's super popular; CRPG's are relatively niche these days in the console spaces, so having one be such a landslide achievement having flown under the radar for so long flies in the face of the "popularity contest" idea.

 

[OverHeat]

Would!…what is the topic again because all I can see is boobs

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Fav person on Gaf. I expect this thread to get lots of interesting responses.

 

[dreamstation]

BG3 better win or it's rigged too

 

[adamsapple]

Another Alana Pearce thread ?

 

[Rac3r]

Sure, but she's still happy to partake in it. I remember her and Rahul Kohli living it up at TGA last year.

 

[Kurotri]

She's right, but I also feel like Geoff's video game awards never felt like "the real deal". It doesn't feel like it's THE show where you get the award that truly cements your standing the same way it works in the film industry. It feels like a side thing, because you already receive "Game of the year" awards from hundreds of outlets even ignoring this show. Refer to this pic:

Red Dead Redemption 2 (somehow) lost the Goty award against GoW in 2018 but...why does that matter when it has 175 of them? Same goes for every other category.

The only thing it's good for are new trailers and even then it's more miss than hit.

 

[M.W.]

It's cringe as fuck.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Isn't that obvious? I'm pretty sure the majority really watch for announcements and that's it.

 

[Arcadialane]

Bitch

 

[havoc00]

I hope Nikki Minaj gets a award for being in MW2

 

[kiphalfton]

Reasonably attractive female talking about popularity contest...

Fuck off

 

[MagiusNecros]

Statement just implies she will vote for whatever the majority of the office she works at votes for. And I wager if it was a Santa Monica Studios game they would be forced to vote for it just cuz.

She is right though. It's just a popularity contest. Then again everyone knows that.

 

[PixelatedBeast]

She's right, but I also feel like Geoff's video game awards never felt like "the real deal". It doesn't feel like it's THE show where you get the award that truly cements your standing the same way it works in the film industry. It feels like a side thing, because you already receive "Game of the year" awards from hundreds of outlets even ignoring this show. Refer to this pic:

Red Dead Redemption 2 (somehow) lost the Goty award against GoW in 2018 but...why does that matter when it has 175 of them? Same goes for every other category.

The only thing it's good for are new trailers and even then it's more miss than hit.

Although Red Dead 2 is an amazing game, the general consensus that year was GOW 2018 was more fun to play. Both games had great graphics, voice acting, music, writing, etc. I just remember the main complaint other people had for RDR2 was the sluggish controls.

 

[UltimaKilo]

That video is so difficult to watch. It's a million clips if this girl cobbled together, and I don't understand why.

Also, way too long to explain something so trivial and stupid.

 

[MALpractice311]

Award show gives awards to media that is the most popular in it's given genre. News at 11.

 

[Buggy Loop]

I still think Sekiro winning GOTY and then It Takes Two, with Disco Elysium taking awards, kind of goes against what she’s saying but ok, let’s put a tinfoil hat on.

Yes marketing helps as you get votes, but let’s not kid ourselves that From Software showered money on Sekiro.

 

[mansoor1980]

she is quite popular........................

In extremely predictable news I’ve just been informed that somebody has taken an image of me, that *I* own, added a trademarked porn logo to it, and “minted” it to sell for profit as an NFT. Naturally, I was not asked for permission.

 

[Eotheod]

It has been like that since it's inception. It was the only way for the awards show to gain popularity and ads. If it featured actual indies no one would tune in because of the niche market they make up unfortunately. I'd love to see actual game diversity and not just "oh what's the top sellers this year?"

Would!…what is the topic again because all I can see is boobs

Are we that incapable of actually having decent conversations in an Alanah Pearce video before "oh my god her tits guys did you see her tits wowee!" Come the fuck on people, go to bloody pornhub if you are that desperate.

 

[Tsaki]

Sure thing Alanah. We value your insight in the industry

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

she is correct

 

[havoc00]

Are we that incapable of actually having decent conversations in an Alanah Pearce video before "oh my god her tits guys did you see her tits wowee!" Come the fuck on people, go to bloody pornhub if you are that desperate.

How can you ignore the milk truck when it arrives?

 

[Swagballs717]

Isn't that obvious? I'm pretty sure the majority really watch for announcements and that's it.

That's not true, people also watch to lord over their game winning GotY over the fans of the other games nominated

 

[eNT1TY]

We're sorry Starfield wasn't nominated....

 

[ByWatterson]

But the question of these awards is literally, "Which game did people like the most?".

Saying they're a popularity contest isn't an observation at all. It's a tautology.

 

[MiguelItUp]

That's not true, people also watch to lord over their game winning GotY over the fans of the other games nominated

Of course, but not the majority I feel. At least that's how it's always felt IMO.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

So?

 

[Fake]

Only now?

 

[OverHeat]

It has been like that since it's inception. It was the only way for the awards show to gain popularity and ads. If it featured actual indies no one would tune in because of the niche market they make up unfortunately. I'd love to see actual game diversity and not just "oh what's the top sellers this year?"

Are we that incapable of actually having decent conversations in an Alanah Pearce video before "oh my god her tits guys did you see her tits wowee!" Come the fuck on people, go to bloody pornhub if you are that desperate.

 

[Soodanim]

Are we that incapable of actually having decent conversations in an Alanah Pearce video before "oh my god her tits guys did you see her tits wowee!" Come the fuck on people, go to bloody pornhub if you are that desperate.

What's her channel name on there?

 

[KaiserBecks]

But the question of these awards is literally, "Which game did people like the most?".

Saying they're a popularity contest isn't an observation at all. It's a tautology.

That would imply everyone who voted actually played every nominated game. It is nothing more than a popularity contest really.

 

[midnightAI]

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Alanah Pearce, influencer and writer at Santa Monica Studio recently gave her opinion on The Game Awards. According to her, the show is nothing more than a popularity contest.

If it was down to biggest marketing budget then why wasn't Starfield nominated?

She has been pushing Starfield hard in her streams so this sounds a little like sour grapes even if I agree that the awards are flawed. But I don't think they necessarily got the game of the year nominations wrong this year either.

 

[Elysium44]

Same reason people watch her videos, her popularity due to her somewhat good looks

 

[G-DannY]

fap

 

[BennyBlanco]

Shes right. Nobody cares. We just wanna see the trailers. Now that E3 is dead this is the next best thing. They took the customary e3 cringe and crystalized it into it’s pure form by having industry types jerk each other off on stage and give longwinded speeches.

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Her entire career to this point has literally been dependant on an ongoing popularity contest.

And it’s not to say she’s wrong in the statement itself…but it’s still pretty ironic.

 

[Woopah]

Reasonably attractive female talking about popularity contest...

Fuck off

What does her gender have to do with the nomination process?

Statement just implies she will vote for whatever the majority of the office she works at votes for. And I wager if it was a Santa Monica Studios game they would be forced to vote for it just cuz.

She is right though. It's just a popularity contest. Then again everyone knows that.

It doesn't imply that in any way. It implies the exact opposite (that people at IGN wouldn't vote for the games she would vote for).

 

[MagiusNecros]

It doesn't imply that in any way. It implies the exact opposite (that people at IGN wouldn't vote for the games she would vote for).

Then she should vote for the games she likes. She doesn't even need to bring up IGN at all.

 

[Boralf]

 

[Woopah]

Then she should vote for the games she likes. She doesn't even need to bring up IGN at all.

She would vote for games she likes. She's saying she would vote for Dredge, but she doesn't think enough people would have played it for it to be nominated.

 

[semiconscious]

'even a stopped clock...'