Do you generally agree with what was selected?
Almost as much as a meme as Telltale would've been.
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The fact that you can nominate any game for any category is a big problem + not filtering out games that were released way earlier than a 1/2 years back from the nomination pool...
Offering a pool of games that meet the definition of each category for people to choose from is better than this kinda lazy approach
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To be fair, it depends on the category. e.g. with "Labor of Love" I would even expect that it's an old game, while for game of the year it shouldn't have been allowed to nominate anything but this year's titles.
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Old games on list and no sense everywhere, like every year... 🙃
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"We’ve excluded ourselves from this category."
What did they develop this year?
A pay to play card game and hats? Ah yeah, the Battleroyal Mode for CSGo that nobody asked for as well...
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Rooting for Hitman 2 for GOTY. Amazing game and great devs.
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And now they expect me to vote for stuff I can't stand just to get a trading card, eh?
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After they had us to nominate stuff we know nothing about like VR game of the year, or game of the year other than Red Dead Redemption 2?
Yes. Yes, they absolutely do.
That's why I nominated Super Space Pug for best VR game of the year :D
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Yeah, I wish they would have included a nomination "shove that VR somewhere up your ...", because that's about how much I care for that stuff. Anyway, let's do some random pointless voting, grab those cards, sell them and then eventually buy something proper (not among the nominations). Brave new world.
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https://store.steampowered.com/sale/winter2018bestof/
so 3 Ubisoft games got platinum in 2018 - Far Cry 5/R6/AC Odyssey
Funny to read hate/joke comments about Ubisoft on steamgifts. People buy their games and enjoy them, so if best developer will be Ubisoft i'll be not surprised :p
Full "best games" announcement:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/2796070940830504495
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Live Stream of the awards presentation starts in about ten minutes... prizes for viewers? Who knows, but that's why I'm bothering to tune in and drop a message here.
Link...
https://steam.tv/SteamAwards
Announcement of stream...
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1750114346364440017
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20 minutes later, and it's over. Short, simple, no mention of prizes, you missed nothin'. CD Projekt Red's acceptance video (no live acceptances, all pre-recorded) was the best of the clips with a good bad-for-PR "thanks for your votes" and walk away from the camera before a longer, more genuine "thank you."
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Announcing The Steam Awards 2018 Nominees:
The Steam Community has spoken, and we are proud to announce the finalists for The Steam Awards 2018 -- but we still need your help choosing the winners!
Voting will open on December 20th, at the start of the 12th annual Steam Winter Sale. Vote in each of our 8 categories to share your top Steam games and developers from 2018 and obtain this year’s set of trading cards.
Voting closes January 3rd and winners will be announced early February 2019. Good luck to all of our nominees!
Nominees for Game of the Year
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
HITMAN™ 2
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Nominees for VR Game of the Year
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
VRChat
Beat Saber
Fallout 4 VR
SUPERHOT VR
Nominees for Labor of Love
Dota 2
Grand Theft Auto V
No Man's Sky
Path of Exile
Stardew Valley
Nominees for Best Environment
The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt
Subnautica
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Far Cry 5
DARK SOULS™ III
**Nominees for Better with Friends
**Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege
PAYDAY 2
Dead by Daylight
Overcooked! 2
Nominees for Best Alternate History
Wolfeinstein II: The New Colossus
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey
Hearts of Iron IV
Sid Meier's Civilization® VI
Fallout 4
Nominees for Most Fun with a Machine
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Rocket League
NieR:Automata
Factorio
Space Engineers
Nominees for Best Developer
CD PROJEKT RED
Ubisoft
Bethesda
Rockstar Games
Digital Extremes Ltd.
Square Enix
Capcom
Paradox Interactive
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
Klei
Notes on Best Developer category:
"Best Developer” proved to be a highly-contested category with a lot of close calls among the top nominees. As a result, we expanded the set of nominees to 10. In addition, we’ve excluded ourselves from this category. We appreciate the love you’ve shown us, but we want to honor the other awesome developers on Steam, so we have excluded Valve from the final tally.
Personally, it's quite close to what I expected, but I really would have liked to see Larian studios show up in the Best Devs category.
Sorry, I fucked up writing the first poll option.
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