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[–] 149 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Everyone is mad about this but I still don't understand how RDR2 was even nominated for Labor of Love, let alone won.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    It's a popularity vote, players nominated and voted for the games. So they just trolled the votes for this and Starfield

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    For the nominations users at least had the option to skip sections if they couldn't think of anything to nominate. For the voting, in order to get the participation reward players had to vote for something in each category.

    This led to a lot of users who don't care about the actual voting and just wanting the participation to vote for the one game they recognized in the category.

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  • [+] -39 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Valve loves money and it clearly shows. The steam awards just became an advertising tool, people in Valve had to write the paragraph about the game.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    They do like money, but Valve also loves providing a service to people.

    Nobody uses Epic Games, Origin, Ubisoft Connect, or Battle.net because they want to, they use it because they have to.

    Steam Awards is a bit janky sure, but to say that their inability to run pointless awards properly ruins the convenience and value that Steam brings to its users would be a gross overstatement.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No they don’t care about the service, we should be able to play games without steam client, we should be able to resell digital games, developers should not had to pay $100 non refundable fees to upload one game each time, etc.

    Steam cares about money, it’s just that simple.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you able to resell digital games on Nintendos platforms? What about playstation or xbox? Wow, no you say?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    Neither in steam, the keysellers are scams and the developers can scam you with the key. You don’t own the game, Nintendo lets you own games in physical format and has never let publishers remove them.

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