It wasn’t just a clown car with 90 clowns, it was a three ring circus. Not once was there mention of the nearly 6,200 positions lost by layoffs this year, at a time when gaming has never been more profitable.
This event needed a kid going up and being cringe at the end. At the end, it felt like the industry jerking itself off.
The event is a celebration - why would they bring up layoffs?
Yeah I definitely felt that all the stuff I actually wanted to see were rushed and replaced instead with a ton of ads and generic looking game trailers. There were only a few trailers that were actually notable and for a 2h show that was super disappointing. The speeches getting rushed and a lot of them not even having time to go up was also very disrespectful to the devs. Just overall not great.
*3 hour show + 30 min pre-show which still actually included a bunch of awards.
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Was only here for monster Hunter
Curiously, what did you want to see?
A lot of us just treat this like the Superbowl and watch it just for the ads.
The actual awards where they celebrate the games they are supposedly meant to celebrate. Some respect for the devs who poured all their time into making them instead of being rushed off the stage. And finally it would be nice for them to actually acknowledge the industries struggles this year and put a light on the fact that the gaming culture is kinda rotten and this is meant to counteract it, instead it seems to fall into the same hole.
You could cut the “2023” from that, and it’d be no less true.
I mean sure, this year’s ad-centric nature was particularly obvious, but come the fuck on, journalists/readers/whatever: Did you ever have any doubt, seriously, ANY doubt, that this is 100% ad-space? And if yes, how?! What part of this did you watch in what year that wasn’t just ad-space for publishers?
It a show whose goal is to generate revenue. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
If you want awards that are actually worthwhile by themselves, GDC and BAFTA are the better choices.
The awards are an excuse to show ads. Ads for upcoming games, released big games, etc.
Yeah but I was here to know about those incoming game . its the only reason else was just cringe.
TGA sucks and always has, nothing new here
I’m learning that people actually care about the rewards and not just scrolling through the announcements list after the show is over.
