[TheVerge] The Game Awards are losing their luster

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The show is still huge, but with all the commercials and celebrities, game developers are getting left out.

That was felt most acutely during the 2023 Game Awards. Developers accepting statues were often drowned out by music or cut off by teleprompters asking them to "please wrap it up" after their roughly 30 seconds of allotted time. Muppets and Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima, though, had no such time limits enforced on them, with Aftermath calculating that 13 acceptance speeches could have fit inside the five minutes Kojima took to explain his game / not-game OD.
2023 was also the first full year into the now endemic video game labor crisis that saw developers laid off by the tens of thousands while studios of popular games got shut down. That crisis went by that year's game awards with no acknowledgement, angering developers further. "I'm incredibly disappointed in Geoff Keighley for his silence on the state of the industry this year," Monomi Park senior environment artist Dillon Sommerville told The Verge in 2023.

But in the months since the 2024 awards, Keighley has once again been accused of poor treatment of the people he's supposed to be celebrating. In 2020, The Game Awards announced a new initiative called The Future Class, designed to celebrate game makers, "who represent the bright, bold and inclusive future of video games." Inductees are honored during the broadcast and provided with networking opportunities, mentorship programs, and other resources throughout the following year. However, there have been reports alleging that Keighley has ignored Future Class concerns and that resources from the program have been materially lacking.
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More here: https://www.theverge.com/games/841710/the-game-awards-2025-preview-geoff-keighley
 
The awards have always kind of felt tertiary as long as I can remember. I'd imagine that most people are watching for the trailers/news/surprises.

There is a very small subset of people that care about "best sound design" compared to the number of people that care about Half Life 3, for instance.
 
I feel like it's been surprisingly consistent and doing what it's intended to do. One of the few major industry moments now that trade shows are finished. Audiences have been growing. The Verge shouldn't be talking about anyone losing their luster.
 
We'll see what they have to say when they unveil Half Life 3 there and it destroys the internet!!!

(Let me fucking have this hope even though it's all in vain, dammit)
 
Kacho said:
I enjoy shitposting in the OT. As the night goes on people lose their patience and the thread devolves into a chaos. There's nothing else like it.
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This is always the quintessential best part of it all. Gaf is at its best with live threads for shows and I laugh myself into an ab workout.
 
Kacho said:
Yeah new game announcements are always fun.

I enjoy shitposting in the OT. As the night goes on people lose their patience and the thread devolves into a chaos. There's nothing else like it.
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Get rid of the awards, the waffling, the interviews, the ad breaks and the musical numbers. Condense it down to something sensible like an hour of new game announcements, maybe split it up into different company/consoles so people can watch what matters to them.
 
1, It never really had any luster, it was just nice to see some new games before the year end (lets face it, the actual Awards are not all that interesting).
2, Fuck off Verge
 
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The game announcements alone don't keep it from losing luster. The Verge on the other hand...

I feel like every Game Awards there's some kind of wtf/lol occurrence that turns into a meme, if not more than one. I'm appreciative for that alone, lol.
 
Hard to make that call literally just before the Game awards airs...

but i'd say for me personally yes, neither do i care what game wins what, I also know geoff front loads these things then the majority of it is gamepass ads and china/korea slop
 
Never particularly thought it had that much luster to lose. I do like watching the game trailers once they hit YouTube, though.
 
Lol what "luster"?
It has always been a heavily commercial show where the main appeal is watching new trailers and announcements. And that's exactly why it's one of the few award shows that's even remotely worth tuning into.


The show has never had any "luster" and, If anything, Id argue we've come a long way from this shit:
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Losing their luster? Views going up, more games announced than ever, this year seems like a great show as well.

No one used to watch this because of the awards besides the GOTY one anyway.
 
Fbh said:
The show has never had any "luster" and, If anything, Id argue we've come a long way from this shit:
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I couldn't believe what I was witnessing that year. Total chaos.

"Only two onset deaths and one very very full very chaffy adult diaper. Geoff, what a night."

 
Clear said:
Says the Verge, a site which never had any lustre.
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Actually it had, and that was the problem since they weren't worthy. The PC build video I think was the last drop, and today I have no idea how they are still alive. Eh

@thread
uh... I think people are hating more, but what matters are the numbers, and they are not bad
 
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