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Why are there so few votes in the GOTY thread?
- Thread starter Jonscrambler
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Fewer people care about voting for GotY this far out from GotY season, the thread is stickied, and the huge OP makes it seem too daunting for some people.
I'd wager these are the three primary reasons.
I'd wager these are the three primary reasons.
Really don't feel like typing an essay explaining why I chose each game. It's a personal top 10 so why should I have to justify and convince others of my choices? Just let people drop their lists and move on.
Don't know about anyone else, but the past few months quarantine fatigue has really set in. I'm barely managing sufficient enthusiasm/energy for work and home life stuff. The idea of putting that much mental effort into doing a write up for each game, which no one will read, is just too much for me right now.
Maybe if it was more of a discussion I'd get caught up and motivated, but as someone pointed out earlier it's just a giant list dump.
Maybe if it was more of a discussion I'd get caught up and motivated, but as someone pointed out earlier it's just a giant list dump.
This is me. The only 2020 releases I've played to completion were Ori and...that's it. Everything else was an older release purchased at discount, a backlog title, a GamePass title, or I didn't bother to finish (Doom Eternal I quit on the last level, Wasteland 3 I'm waiting for patches to clean it up).
Edit: Looking at the formatting requirements needed to make the games searchable on ERA, it's more effort than I'd honestly put into thinking about ranking games in any given period of time outside of my early 20s.
I've put off doing it because the new voting system is rubbish and it's a pain to have to add reasons. I don't understand why reasons are required when basically no-one will read what I put anyway.
It also seems way too late this year, 2020 has been and gone.
It also seems way too late this year, 2020 has been and gone.
As the OP of the Soundtrack thread, I feel like I'm between a rock and a hard place when it comes to thread stickies. It's either "the thread is stickied, so no one sees it" or "the thread is not stickied, so it immediately falls off the front page and no one sees it."
1. Forgot it existed/hadn't already been done
2. Never notice it nowadays
3. Too much effort
4. Didn't care enough at the time
5. Overall GOTY is obvious
6. Don't care one bit right now
2. Never notice it nowadays
3. Too much effort
4. Didn't care enough at the time
5. Overall GOTY is obvious
6. Don't care one bit right now
I missed it because it was stickied, but also I'm just not that passionate about 2020 games.
I completed 6 games in 2020. One was a fun, little indie game that hardly anyone's played (Lithium City) and wasn't even nominated (I know that I could vote it in anyway). Three were enhanced or remade versions of older games (FF7R, TMS#FE Switch, and P5R). One was a 2019 game (Luigi's Mansion 3) and one was a PS3 game (Siren: Blood Curse). I played some other games that came out last year that I didn't finish like Hades as well as some older games, but yeah, I just don't feel like it's worth the effort of making sure I vote correctly according to the thread rules or write a description for each game, when I wasn't that excited about 2020 games & I don't even know if I could come up with 10 new games I played.
And well, I know how this works. The final Top list is just going to end up looking like every other GotY list that your average gaming website put out.
If the system was more automated and just had you pick several games from a list (or write-in your own), make sure the order is correct, and hit submit, I'd be more likely to participate next year.
I completed 6 games in 2020. One was a fun, little indie game that hardly anyone's played (Lithium City) and wasn't even nominated (I know that I could vote it in anyway). Three were enhanced or remade versions of older games (FF7R, TMS#FE Switch, and P5R). One was a 2019 game (Luigi's Mansion 3) and one was a PS3 game (Siren: Blood Curse). I played some other games that came out last year that I didn't finish like Hades as well as some older games, but yeah, I just don't feel like it's worth the effort of making sure I vote correctly according to the thread rules or write a description for each game, when I wasn't that excited about 2020 games & I don't even know if I could come up with 10 new games I played.
And well, I know how this works. The final Top list is just going to end up looking like every other GotY list that your average gaming website put out.
If the system was more automated and just had you pick several games from a list (or write-in your own), make sure the order is correct, and hit submit, I'd be more likely to participate next year.
I had no idea the rules and formatting had been changed so popped in the GOTY thread to see what all the fuss was about. HOLY SHIT.
I've had medical procedures more fun than trying to sift through that OP. The constant threatening language and red text is the cherry on the cake.
I don't blame anyone running a mile from that thread.
I've had medical procedures more fun than trying to sift through that OP. The constant threatening language and red text is the cherry on the cake.
I don't blame anyone running a mile from that thread.
2020 was an incredibly mediocre year for games, and an incredibly terrible year for most everything else, so I can see why there isn't much enthusiasm.
Of my top 10 only half actually came out last year, and while Crusader Kings 3 and Microsoft Flight Simulator are truly great... there's just not that big emotional swing behind them.
Oh, yeah, this too. Very odd change to make.
Of my top 10 only half actually came out last year, and while Crusader Kings 3 and Microsoft Flight Simulator are truly great... there's just not that big emotional swing behind them.
Oh, yeah, this too. Very odd change to make.
It's fucking February. No one cares about last year anymore. Put up the vote in December next time.
Didn't even play any 2020 games. Last new game I bought was..... Resident Evil 2 Remake? Usually, there's at least one or two games per year I'm interested in and FF VII Remake was supposed to be that game, but it got Nomurad to oblivion, so no votes from me this year.
A) It's almost March. Who gives a shit about GOTY this far into the following year.
B) the rules to vote are completely fucking stupid.
C) I don't give really a shit about GOTY in general. I don't rank my "*insert thing* of the year" lists. Can't do an unranked list here.
B) the rules to vote are completely fucking stupid.
C) I don't give really a shit about GOTY in general. I don't rank my "*insert thing* of the year" lists. Can't do an unranked list here.
I really enjoyed some games from 2020 but it just seems like a hassle and ultimately not worth it when we already know who the winner is going to be.
Because game awards are useless. I am honestly surprised by how dedicated certain people in this forum are about tracking goty awards.
Number of votes are almost the same as last year a week before deadline I think. At least half vote in like the last 4 days. I do expect lower turnout this year though because forums are dying.
Edit: ~900 votes week before deadline with nearly 500 votes coming in the last week. This year there were ~500 votes week before so I suppose there is a sharp decline but voting was delayed by almost 2 months on top of forums dying so yeah lol.
Edit: ~900 votes week before deadline with nearly 500 votes coming in the last week. This year there were ~500 votes week before so I suppose there is a sharp decline but voting was delayed by almost 2 months on top of forums dying so yeah lol.
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I didn't know there was a thread until now.
I'll go in there, and make Hades my GotY pick. Only played it along with AC: NH.
I'll go in there, and make Hades my GotY pick. Only played it along with AC: NH.
Maybe I'm lazy, but the actual process of voting seems way too involved. Like the OP has a seven-step guide just for casting your vote, and you also have to justify each pick. And there's all these rules so that my votes could be disqualified for any number of reasons. Its just too much work for me to want to care about voting.
I feel like just having a strawpoll or something would result in a lot more people bothering to vote.
Also its way too late in the year to be talking about GOTY.
I feel like just having a strawpoll or something would result in a lot more people bothering to vote.
Also its way too late in the year to be talking about GOTY.
Same for me. I'd vote if it's just a list of games. I don't feel like giving an explanation to my choices.
As for me:
1. I don't care about the ranking of games. I honestly find it quite impossible say that one great experience is better than another great experience.
2. The OT is like a wall of text with rules, pictures and what not. Those kind of threads turn me off in general.
1. I don't care about the ranking of games. I honestly find it quite impossible say that one great experience is better than another great experience.
2. The OT is like a wall of text with rules, pictures and what not. Those kind of threads turn me off in general.
People treat the GOTY voting too much like a contest when its about putting your personal GOTY list into words that you can look back on later. Its a neat way to keep track of how you felt about those games in (almost) the year you played them. Its also nice to read what other people have written and might get you interested in other games.
I can see the keeping track of votes getting dropped next year in favor of just a general thread to write about your favorite games of the year but someone would compile a number eventually anyways so idk lol.
I can see the keeping track of votes getting dropped next year in favor of just a general thread to write about your favorite games of the year but someone would compile a number eventually anyways so idk lol.
Combination of it started really late, most people mentally filtering out sticky threads and not having played enough/specific games
I know for me, I just don't really care about GOTY stuff. First, I'm very slow at getting around to games--I prefer waiting and buying games when they're cheap--so I don't even have ten games I put on the list. Secondly, and there's no gentle way to phrase this, GOTY feels so predictable and routine it's hard to expend time voting for something whose conclusion is both foregone and personally uninteresting. Like, I know TLOU2 will win, why participate in the song and dance? To maybe see a game I played rank top ten, maybe? Like, that ain't worth the time so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, i've barely played anything released in 2020. I have a huge backlog to catch up to, while at the same time i'm waiting to get my hands on a PS5 before starting up on TLOU2, Ghost of Tsushima and Miles Morales, as i would rather not play them on my Pro.
Regardless, i probably wouldn't vote either way since creating a post and explaining all the choices would take too much time and feels like a chore.
Regardless, i probably wouldn't vote either way since creating a post and explaining all the choices would take too much time and feels like a chore.
lol at all the people saying the voting thread is too difficult.
You literally type in your game, click it from the list and the forum does the rest for you.
Super difficult....
You literally type in your game, click it from the list and the forum does the rest for you.
Super difficult....
It looked like a lot of effort for something that I don't really care about. I love playing games but I don't really feel the need to explain why I enjoyed one game more than the others.
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