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The Game Awards 2023 fell short of honoring its own industry (www.destructoid.com)
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[–] Why9@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A lot of us just treat this like the Superbowl and watch it just for the ads.

That is crazy to admit. Here we have people trying to do their best to remove ads from their lives; using PiHoles, AdBlockers and VPNs to get rid of as many ads as possible, but they would sit down and willingly watch ads instead of watching world-class athletes battle for supremacy on their grandest stage.

The closest thing we have in Europe is the Football World Cup. I reckon due to the nature of the sport, they play for 45mins each half and fitting in ads during play would be met with fierce backlash and boycotting. It's insane to me that you'd look forward to ads instead!

[–] kelvie@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that the difference here? Here we are choosing to watch ads -- more specifically I want to learn about new games coming out, versus ads that I don't, such as on most websites, YouTube, my TV, billboards, apps, etc.

[–] Why9@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's an important distinction but a valid one

Yes, the key difference is that you're choosing to watch ads of the genre that the show is based on, but it felt like this year we were rolling RNG for 4 hours and the best we got was monster Hunter Wilds, Light no Fire, Hellblade 2 and checks notes FOUR Fortnite ads?

Many people felt bad that there was no Elden Ring DLC, no Titanfall, no Nintendo surprise even? Rockstar could have saved their trailer for TGA, but chose to have it on their own day. Absent were the plethora of AAA titles releasing 2024-2025. It felt like we rolled RNG for ads at actually want to see, and came away slightly disappointed?