Every year over 500 outlets give a GOTY award to their favorite game but which one should be considered the final word on the subject? I think primarily we need to look at who are the ones making these decisions? There are essentially 4 different ways these awards are decided.
Jury Awards: These awards like the somewhat presumptively named "The Game Awards" make their selections with a limited judging panel of journalists and "influencers." The pros of such a system would theoretically be that they should ideally have played all of the nominees and be attuned to the community they are trying to serve. The drawbacks are that they are often sponsored, hosted, given priority access or otherwise compensated by game companies making them far less than objective.
Community Poll Awards: These awards are based on gamer feedback and almost always online polling. The pros of this are that there are many more votes counted than any other system and presumably since the gamers themselves are the target audience of games their opinions should be considered paramount. The drawbacks of this system unfortunately are many fold; the polls can often be gamed through duplicate accounts and bots, the communities hosting these awards can be niche or exclusionary skewing the results, and finally most gamers simply haven't played all of the nominees so how can they judge a group of games against each other without having tried all of them?
Gaming Website Editor Awards: These awards are given by gaming or general news sites such as IGN, Gamespot, and many others large and small. The pros of these awards are that these people have devoted their professional lives to judging and playing games and as such they should have a vast pool of knowledge to draw from. The drawback to these types of awards is that the editorial staff is quite small ranging from a few dozen to just a single person. As such biases and agendas often play a large role in what is chosen and the choice reflects little more than a personal opinion.
Industry Professional Awards: These awards are given by a committee of those working within the industry. In this way they are most similar to the biggest awards of other media such as the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, and Tonys. Examples include the DICE Awards, and GDC Awards. As industry insiders the voters in these awards have the unique perspective of not only being able to enjoy a game on it's merits but also what it takes to build a great game from the inside. My personal opinion is that these sorts of awards are probably the best representation of what a GOTY award should be. They sample from a large and well educated base of voters with unique insights. If one looks back at the awards given by these types of committees they may not reflect your own personal taste but they definitely capture the zeitgeist of the era and generally award games that go on to influence the design and focus of the games to come in the following years. Also, if I were a game design professional the recognition of my peers would likely be the award that would matter to me most. And in the end that's who these awards are meant for, not console warriors or fanboys of a particular game but the hard working professionals that bring this hobby to life through hard work and dedication.
Mountains can be moved, opinions too… paradise has never been so presidential in Tropico 7.
Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month. PC Game Pass will also drop from $16.49 to $13.99 a month. Prices may vary by region.
Beginning this year, future Call of Duty titles won’t join Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. New Call of Duty games will be added to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass during the following holiday season (about a year later), while existing Call of Duty titles already in the library will continue to be available.
Its nice there is some kind of drop... but is that all they really value CoD to be, a lousy $7 a month?
I was hoping it would drop by $10.
Can’t wait to hear how this will be spun extremely positive. 🤣
I wonder why knowing Microsoft thick head something must has happened in the background in the levels of Xbox one and Kinect 🤷🏿
Well, they're removing their biggest game from being Day 1 on the service so GamePass users can buy it instead. That's the intention.
They increased the price to $30, then removed COD and dropped it to still be above the old price.
It's an understandable compromise but the consumer Ultimately is getting less.
Think the calculation is that *most* COD users don't play that many games and aren't interested in GamePass. The GamePass users who do like COD would just buy it anyway. MS reportedly lost out a lot of money last year putting COD on GamePass.
Well Call of duty could just be the beginning. What other games can they trim from the service to get the price down? How long before it's just the Xbox core first party studio games and not the one to everquired?
Create an interesting scenario with Call of duty as well. Will people wait a year to play it? Does that split the fan base? Will it hurt to Call of duty more than a benefits Game pass? These are all legitimate questions which we will find the answers to in the coming years
And I don't consider my post negative spin just realistic observation.
In my region, it’s still more expensive than it was before the last price hike, but it’s a far more viable price point.
Losing Call of Duty from the service, honestly, has zero effect on me, and given they chose to make it so, it’s probably not the big seller they originally thought. Overall, it’s really good news, but I still think they have work to do on the tier structure, having Premium and PC at the same price point with different features feels odd.
Yep take COD out. Them waiting a year is interesting but it make sense. They don't want certain ppl waiting 4 to 6 months they want fomo and maximum sales. Wait a year while the new one releases.
Ok so far so good.
Today, Team Coreupt officially announced its next title in development, an action and hack-and-slash game called Kirk Mephisto.
It's same with movies. Oscars is one of "definitive", because most celebrities comes to it, same with "The Game Awards", most dews and actors come. Don't over think it. It's no point arguing about taste.
All of them combined is best I guess, most awards for best game = best game, maybe
The DICE Awards are by far the most meaningful awards.