The Steam Awards 2023 results are out and they’re a meme – Hogwarts Legacy winning the Best Game on Steam Deck Award

There's this, and there's just trolling, like giving most innovative gameplay to Starfield. The internet's gonna internet, what can you do.

The issue starts even earlier, with the fact that you're encouraged to nominate games that you may not have even played. I think the only game released this year that I've played was Cities: Skylines 2, which I didn't feel deserved anything, so I just punched in whatever games I could find that had released this year.

And then, yeah, I totally just clicked choices for all the votes for awards too. I didn't really care, I didn't play any of the choices anyway.

This year you could skip a category, and it would still count towards the badge / stickers / whatever, but I don't think that was made clear at a glance. It was explained in the FAQ, but who reads that, when you could just click whatever and be done?

Maybe that was just for the nominations though, I don't remember checking for the actual vote.

What platforms have you been frequenting (or avoiding) where steam is the bottom of the barrel?

Honestly, steam reviews are far more useful than most review systems. Ign or metacritic are nearly useless in comparison.

They also nominated Warhammer: 40k Darktide for the "Better with Friends" award when it was an unfinished flop that sits at 66% (Mixed) for overall reviews.

Maybe we could dare to hope for a "mostly positive" in that slot at minimum.

What the actual fuck lmao. How does Skyrim in space win the most innovative gameplay award?

Gamers have lost their minds I swear

Yes, the Hogwarts game on the Deck was glitchy as fuck despite being "Steam Deck certified".

One of the problems was it kept opening files for content without closing the old files that are no longer used. Operating systems limit the number of files a single process can have open to prevent runaway processes and causing systems to completely hang. Linux is just a little more strict than Windows by default so the fix was to update a setting. It had obviously not been tested further than "well it starts".

But I think that's the joke.

I had fun for a while, but yeah, I got bored.

but have you considered that it's bad actually to laud the transphobic blood libel game with Ubisoft characteristics?

particularly in a year so packed with actual decent games deserving of recognition?

At this point the steam awards is just advertising. We don’t have proof of voting bots because Valve exclusively keeps things in secret.