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Because the selection criteria are different.

It may also be that the two major awards dislike each other, so both sides are very focused on their own unique standards.

For example, for a popular game like a ball game that is released once a year, it is impossible for the developers at GDC and the Global Game Developers Conference to give the best game to this type of game. Only the judges of VGA Only we, the senior game media editors, would vote for these games with little content and make them the best of the year.

And like Shadow of the Colossus and Journey are unlikely to be accepted by the VGA judges.

Although many of them like this kind of game, their standard is what the player likes the most. This player is not a very small number of core players like them, but the ordinary players who make up the majority, and they recognize it the most. Games are the ones they will select.

They cannot choose according to their own intention.

Of course, it is nothing new in the industry that GTA is not favored by the GDC judges. There are also many discussions on why GTA is not favored. It can be said that there are different opinions.

Although some people say that GTA never misses the year, every time a new GTA game comes out, there will be an equally heavyweight game released that year, so it is inevitable that there will be casualties when the two powers compete.

However, there is another saying, that is, GDC represents game developers after all, and they still want to save face. Their professional ethics make it impossible for them to vote for a game that promotes violence and pornography. Otherwise their conscience will be troubled.

Just like what Confucius said, the one who created the figurines has no successors.

Games like GTA5 are considered adult games in any country. Minors are not allowed to come into contact with it, but as an adult, no one knows how easy it was for them to come into contact with similar things when they were children.

Therefore, these things are not very useful at all.

Although they enjoy playing it themselves, they are also afraid that their children will be affected by this game and something bad will happen to them.

And what Confucius said about the originator of the figurines, the meaning of which is similar. Those who use human beings as sacrifices for burials, aren’t you afraid that you will have no descendants?

Of course, these theories are all speculation and no one can explain clearly.

In fact, Jester is quite curious about one thing.

If GTA5 is really released in 2014, then based on the quality of GTA5, will those at GDC really not give it the best award of the year?

I didn't expect it to be called vga.

Jester was a little surprised when he first heard about these new annual awards. He did not expect that these awards established by major game media would have the same name as the awards he knew later that were also established by game media. , actually. As his subsidiary Game magazine, as the largest game media in the world, it is also one of the initiators of this award.

Of course, some gaming media actually saw that some of the annual awards in the gaming industry were all in the hands of GDC. While they have little say, they naturally have strong opinions.

After all, public opinion is the power they most want to control.

So, several major media. There are televisions and newspapers, but no websites. As a media, websites are still very weak. There is no influence. They and the media have united to prepare their annual game selection. Of course, the award setting is also a copycat GDC award, but this thing has no patent rights in the first place. GDC's award setting It is also a copycat of major film awards such as the Oscars.

However, as an emerging award, VGA still has a long way to go if he wants to catch up with GDC, which has established an authoritative position in the industry. Not only does it take time to bridge the gap, but more importantly, they It takes a surprising move to turn defeat into victory.

The people who organize and plan VGA are naturally not stupid, they have a deep understanding of this.

They have to do something that GDC won't do. For example, the judges of GDC are all arrogant game designers, and their award criteria are also viewed from the perspective of a designer, and if VGA If he wants to survive, his standards must be different from those of GDC. Since their selection criteria are mainly developers, then VGA's selection criteria are mainly players.

To prove their point, they will accept votes from players after the candidates are announced each year.

Of course, it does not mean that every player is eligible to vote, because this is an award jointly organized by several major game media and game publications, so only those players who have subscribed to these publications or programs can vote. Qualifications.

It cannot be a short-term order, it must be a long-term order.

In order to do so, the organizer's explanation is also very simple, that is, in order to select more authoritative games, voters must have a detailed understanding of the game market and environment in the past year, so they must be senior players. Participate in the selection, so how to distinguish who is a senior player and who is not a senior player, who has a deep understanding of the game environment in the past year and who does not.

This is not easy to handle.

However, a person who can subscribe to a certain game channel or game journal for a whole year is always more experienced than those who do not subscribe or buy, and have a better understanding of the game environment in the past year, and those who have published those Game.

After all, it is not like a few decades later, when online media are developed, you can surf the Internet and know all the news at the touch of a mouse.

Now, if you want to know the news of an industry, you must always pay attention to these programs or buy newspapers and magazines.

Such standards cannot be considered unreasonable, and the players have no objections.

Of course, this year is only the second one. It is not that simple to take away the title of the most authoritative award in the gaming industry from GDC in just two years. However, they still managed it in the first one last year. It is impressive. After all, this award is organized and established by various media. The publicity cannot be small, but despite this, this award is still not as authoritative as the GDC.

When many players discuss the game of the year, they always talk about how good GDC is, and don't even talk about how good VGA is.

Even many players who don't pay much attention to this aspect may have heard of gdc, but they may not have heard of vga. (To be continued...)