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They took out the bot votes

geoff keighley said it himself
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The bot votes they believed at the time were bot votes. The integrity of the voting is in question either way, cause there is no way to independently verify beyond what GA decides.

Like I said: Halo Infinite.

Also the "anybody but a Sony game" mantra will continue to apply here, where the games serving the smallest audiences/platforms by market share have an outsized and disproportionate voting and representation in voice, and not by a small margin but a significant one. None of these awards or buzz reflect anything near platform market-share realities.

Couple that with the politics going on for Game of the Year, where the voting pool is subject to pressure/harassment campaigns on top of biased favoritism due to business/career links - all coming about as a reaction to Sony's dominance post middle-lifecycle of the PS4 era where awards started to influence console sales and thus an urgent need to put a clamp and a break on that - in large part to keep MS's Xbox afloat, and PC in tow. Naturally to compromise, pushing PC centric titles as the safe political choice ("multiplatform" mantra) is also something that benefits MS (again, anything but a Sony game). Elden Ring, Baldurs Gate 3 etc....

In totality you have an environment that is extremely hostile to the success of the market leader, and that trickles down to the recognition of its games on these forums, while also propping up some things undeservedly.

That is something for Sony's marketing team to figure out a response to. Like have your own end of the year conference - PlayStation experience for example. Other big devs have it - Blizzcon etc. I'm sure those at Sony's marketing dept are well aware... they've always been well aware of the shenanigans cause they're not blind. But their inaction to fix it, combat it or provide alternatives also says how helpless they're to do anything about it - obviously they're not helpless, just not willing to do what is required and thus they find it better to just be "above it" - code for moral posturing while getting killed on the streets. Hence these are individuals and leadership cadre who should be out of their jobs if excellence and competence was the mandate in this particular regard, as opposed to cost-saving as the top down priority. The premium games market is one of those markets where the market leader is disproportionately out-marketed by its competitors, to the detriment of such, and that the media buzz does not revolve around the market leader in the way that it should by market reality. That is a Sony weakness, always has been, and will continue to be until they find the right individuals, and not bargain bin marketing personal on Linkedin, and also, open their pockets.
 
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The bot votes they believed at the time were bot votes. The integrity of the voting is in question either way, cause there is no way to independently verify beyond what GA decides.

Like I said: Halo Infinite.

Also the "anybody but a Sony game" mantra will continue to apply here, where the games serving the smallest audiences/platforms by market share have an outsized and disproportionate voting and representation in voice, and not by a small margin but a significant one. None of these awards or buzz reflect anything near market-share realities.

Couple that with the politics going on for Game of the Year, where the voting pool is subject to pressure/harassment campaigns on top of biased favoritism and agenda picks - all coming about as a reaction to Sony's dominance post middle-lifecycle of the PS4 era where awards started to influence console sales and thus an urgent need to put a clamp and a break on that, in large part to keep MS's Xbox afloat, thus an expedient necessity. Naturally to compromise, pushing PC centric titles as the safe political choice is also something that benefits MS (again, anything but a Sony game). Elden Ring, Baldurs Gate 3 etc....

In totality you have an environment that is extremely hostile to the success of the market leader, and that it trickles down to the recognition of its games on these forums, while also propping up some things undeservedly.

That is something for Sony's marketing team to figure out a response to. Like have your own end of the year conference - PlayStation experience for example. Other big devs have it - Blizzcon etc. I'm sure those at Sony's marketing dept are well aware... they've always been well aware of the shenanigans cause they're not blind at. But their inaction to fix it, combat it or provide alternatives also says how helpless they're to do anything about it - obviously they're not helpless, just not willing to do what is required and thus they find it better to just be "above it" - code for moral posturing while getting killed on the streets. Hence individuals who should be out of their jobs if excellence and competence was the mandate, as opposed to cost-saving as the top down priority. The premium games market is one of those markets where the market leader is disproportionately out-marketed by its competitors, to the detriment of such, and that the media buzz does not revolve around the market leader. That is a Sony weakness, always has been, and will continue to be until they find the right individuals, and not bargain bin marketing personal on linkedin, and also, open their pockets.
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I mean is it unrealistic to expect that a game with tens of millions of daily players wins a popularity contest? the userbase was fully activated due to the competition with sonic
 
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lmaoooo genshin does it again

how mad will people be if they win it again this year
 
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