RDR2 was nominated for “labor of love”, a five year old sp game with an abandoned online component and no significant updates or dlc since release
Meanwhile Deep Rock Galactic gets multiple new events per year and has a super community focused dev team.
DRG already won on a previous year, I think. Steam rules are that a game can’t be renominated for a category they already won.
Kind of an odd rule. I suppose if it didn’t exist, Terraria would just win that category every year.
But didn’t Terraria have it’s last ever update 3 years ago?
All the awards are for games released in the last year, except labor of love, which is any game from anytime. (Unless I forgot about another award)
Average steam user is not smart. I mean, they routinely spend money on products they never use just because it’s on sale.
That’s why it’s stupid to give incentives to people to vote. I hadn’t even heard of 90% of the games up for selection in the awards. But I sure as hell voted on every one, usually just picking a game I’d heard the name of, or one with a cool looking banner.
This right here is the exact reason Starfield won most innovative, and the same reason Hogwarts Legacy won best on Steam Deck. People who hadn’t played any of the games in the votes only voted on games they had heard of.
It was weird voting for a best on steam deck without owning a steam deck. Seems like it would have been easy to restrict that one to accounts that have been used on a deck. Same with the VR game vote
Mind as well limit it to only games in your library than.
Plenty of other ways to play something than for you to physically hold it in you hands. Maybe the played it a vrcade, friends house, rented one, etc.
I have a ROG which is effectively a Windows Steam Deck, and I use the Deck compatibility checks to ensure that software will run adequately on the ROG. I actually did play Hogwarts Legacy quite a bit on the ROG during my vacation to the UK.
I wouldn’t restrict it to just Deck owners, as there are quite a number of us who own beefy handhelds that are not the Deck. At that point I would change the category to “Great on Handhelds”.
Steam awards is just popular vote and memes, why did last of us get best soundtrack? Why did rdr2 get labor of love? Why did hogwarts win best on steam deck? Dont take awards seriously, they are just a bit of fun.
Maybe 5 years ago when it was released… What labor did they do on it this year?
Honestly, the whole user/community aspect of Steam is garbage. Discussion forums are just back and forth fights between people about random things like game issues without anyone trying to solve the actual issue. The screenshots/art whatever section is just softcore porn of the game characters and the main screenshots/art section that covers all games is just a hub for wallpaper engine crap.
The guides section is the worst. Its all just stupid meme shit like “How to start the game” or “how to walk forward”.
The workshop section CAN be decent but posters just select all tags for their items so searching by category is useless and there is no rule enforcement to prevent that.
I’ve been a steam user since the start and have a steam deck. Their linux support is really good but thats it.
Oh and trolls and bullies commenting on your profile just don’t seem to ever get banned nomatter what horrific shit they post.
Oh and trolls and bullies commenting on your profile just don’t seem to ever get banned nomatter what horrific shit they post.
They certainly do if you report them. Losing your community privileges, including the right to change your avatar, is something Valve does to people who violate the community rules. But there is no automatic system. You need to report them.
As for the rest: It’s a video game store. Think about how many of the users are children. It’s why there are curators and ratings for damn near every submission. They used to even have ratings for the forum topics back before they were integrated into Steam directly; they probably should bring that back.
