I voted for them. No need to thank me.

;o)

I always thought it has to do with the amount of care it was put in the game. Like the original release of Witcher 3, the new God of War, Red Dead Redemption 2. The award is for 2018, was there no game in 2018, in which the developers poured their souls in? Where there no Hallow Knight level of releases?

An award for GTA 5, should have been something like "best continued support by developers".

Depending on who you ask: Kingdom Come Deliverance, Tower of Time, The Messenger, Pillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire, Pathfinder Kingmaker, Celeste, Unavowed, Atom RPG, Bloodstained Curse of the Moon, The Banner Saga 3 and the list goes on.

I'm not saying all deserve the spot but they are commonly taken up and most of them has solid user reviews.

Kingdom Come and Pathfinder both launched in very poor states but the devs has clearly shown lot of care and ambition so they work their asses of to fix them so take your pick.

That GOTY list is a joke....

CDPR didn't do anything notable in 2018, so it makes zero sense to give them an award that is allegedly based on what they did in 2018.

The other awards are equally absurd. GTA 5 is no "labor of love." It's a labor of milking consumers with predatory/extortionary/total ripoff microstransactions. The only reason they still work on it is because engaging in those illicit behaviors - despite how unethical they are - is highly profitable.

That just shows how few games with actual staying power is released each year. If you'd poll people of their top 10 of all time, there would be some pretty old games there.

'Thank you buying our game'

walks off.

I would be confused if witcher 3 won an award in 2018.


personally didn't know thronebreaker was so beloved it made CDPR developer of the year