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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

the reality is that the majority of gamers does not give a single fuck about ~~quality and innovation~~ the awards and just wants to ~~play the next FIFA EA FC, CoD and Bugthesda~~ get the rewards for voting and picks random games or maybe ones they've heard the names of.

I hadn't even heard of most of the games up for vote, let alone actually played them, so I just randomly picked cool-looking banners or names. I think a lot of people are like me and just picked the couple games they'd actually heard of before.

[–] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

To get the rewards Steam handed out for it. This year they gave out 11 chat stickers, one for each one you voted on.

[–] dag__@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

Because Steam gave out 11 exclusive stickers for voting on the different categories. It's not a good idea to give out incentives to get people to vote for something because they'll do it for the reward without having any idea what they're voting for.