FFXIV did not win any awards at the 2023 Video Game Awards

Citizens, we got two nominations: Best Community Support and Best Ongoing Game, but we won neither of them. Best Community Support went to BG3 and Best Ongoing Game went to Cyberpunk 2077. Congrats to both of them. Maybe next year.




The dark times will pass.

Oh no. What games won so I can switch over to playing them?

Well lets see how DT is, I think other games deserved it more this year.

It didn't really deserve either of them the first time. It's just a popularity contest anyway. I wouldn't think too much into it.

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Winning those awards was just a reflection of FFXIV having the most connected, viral community that can, with the greatest of ease, spread a link to vote for the game awards around the entire community, and almost everyone will do it. It will spread from FC to linkshell to FC, to discord to discord, and all across ex-twitter who all follow eachother and make FFXIV things trend regularly.

Most gaming communities are not connected to this same extent. It's a reflection of the "massively multiplayer" aspect of it compared to other games.

Armored Core 6 won best action and that's all I care about.

It only got nominated for a single category anyway (best continuing game) so it's a moot point I guess.

Funnily enough FFXVI did win an award though - for best music, which, is sort of kind of an award for XIV too (given Soken did FFXVI's OST).

You mean the "Two Hours of Paid Advertising and Occasionally Someone is Handed a Statue" Awards?

To be fair, it lost to some amazing games this year, and those awards were well-deserved. BG3 is great and CP2077 just released a fantastic expansion this year to really put that game over the top. And they just released a new patch with the new features.

So I don't feel bad for this game not winning anything. We're in a bit of a dry spell. But this should make all the people on these forums elated as it validates their narrative that FFXIV is utter trash and is dying.

So, good for them!

It doesn'r deserve them and it shouldn't win shit until the game does better.

Baldur's Gate 3 really deserved the award for best community support and all the other awards they got.

They are on top of what the community wants like 24/7

I'm not too sold on Cyberpunk for best ongoing game, but Endwalker seems to not be everyone's favorite, so I guess it makes sense. Can't win 'em all.

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Originally Posted by Cynric

Baldur's Gate 3 really deserved the award for best community support and all the other awards they got.

They are on top of what the community wants like 24/7

I'm not too sold on Cyberpunk for best ongoing game, but Endwalker seems to not be everyone's favorite, so I guess it makes sense. Can't win 'em all.

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Phantom Liberty and the 2.0 update are so good.

I’m really confused how Alan wake won awards because I know a lotta people and exactly 0 of them had the game on their radar at all

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Originally Posted by Mosha

Armored Core 6 won best action and that's all I care about.

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Big facts. AC6 is so incredible actually. What an absolutely delightful game that deserves every bit of success for one of my favorite IPs.

I still gotta play Alan Wake, Cyberpunk now that it's fixed, and BG3, I'm entirely unspoiled, but I don't even feel a big rush because there have been so many killer indie games that are creative and interesting and actually treat me like I didn't have an early life lobotomy, I've been eating so good. I'm so catered to right now.

Playing games you actually like is something else let me tell you.

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I’m really confused how Alan wake won awards because I know a lotta people and exactly 0 of them had the game on their radar at all

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It came out like 5 minutes before they started posting nominees so yeah like wtf

Even had a musical performance from that instead of from the game that actually won music

Cyberpunk for ongoing game was just weird. Apex or Fortnite, totally fine, but one good expansion to fix your broken game after goodness know's how long is not an ongoing game

Of course these are also the awards that nominated someone for best e-sports coach who pointed out himself on Twitter that he didn't even coach this year

Yeah. Wondering when this tread was going to get made. Only surprised it took this long. All the outrage merchants must be just all a tither with the results.

Cyberpunk is good now but no way would I have given it the award. . . They had to do what they did because they messed it up, and they did charge for it (in a sense) via the phantom liberty expansion. No Mans Sky also messed up but they've been doing it longer and for free.

I wouldn't have felt wrong if FFXIV earned it, but I felt like "nah man" for cyberpunk. They redeemed themselves now, that's good, but you need to now continue to do great stuff to get an award.

Shouldn't do bad, fix bad, and then be told you did great lol.

Makes sense. I would expect FFXIV to be a strong contender in a year that a new xpac drops, since that's effectively the equivalent of an entire new game. In an off-year where only patches have been released? I wouldn't expect it to get awards over other games that are either brand new or releasing major expansions themselves.

We're at the tail end of a rather divisive expansion, a lot of people are on break from the game until the next patch, and the "awards" are decided entirely on internet votes, with a big pile of heavily hyped games that recently released and are a lot fresher in peoples' minds. Why would XIV have won anything?

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

We're at the tail end of a rather divisive expansion, a lot of people are on break from the game until the next patch, and the "awards" are decided entirely on internet votes, with a big pile of heavily hyped games that recently released and are a lot fresher in peoples' minds. Why would XIV have won anything?

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Actually online fan votes only account for 10% of the vote weight, says so right on their FAQ, so the votes are basically useless and just stunt to sell more games on the store, or if you want to be pessimistic it's all just a Tencent self wank to see which tencent game wins the best tencent award.
Either way I'm glad it didn't win anything important, the more desperate a mmo dev is the better the content is in the future.

The expansion was mid. Better luck next time.

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Originally Posted by Zarkovitch

The expansion was mid. Better luck next time.

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Wait, when did Endwalker come out?

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Originally Posted by WeebPolice

Citizens, we got two nominations: Best Community Support and Best Ongoing Game, but we won neither of them. Best Community Support went to BG3 and Best Ongoing Game went to Cyberpunk 2077. Congrats to both of them. Maybe next year.




The dark times will pass.

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Lol, no surprise there. Yesterday on Famfrit Limsa Lominsa we had someone spamming racial slurs in /shout, and it took hours for the GMs to respond. Not exactly a great representation of community support. As for best ongoing game? I think the increasing time between patches and the limited content released with each patch speaks for itself. Hopefully we see a turnaround with DT.

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The expansion was mid. Better luck next time.

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Yep, without a doubt.

Don't know what people want from this. No one really cares that it lost, the loss isn't going to make SE make any changes and the game had good competition apparently.

Oh and a lot of people don't even take the awards seriously, although knowing people on these forums if the game had won then certain people would definitely be using it as proof of their points, while others would be stating that it doesn't matter.

Also, this wasn't even EW's release year as an expansion, so I don't think the awards matter towards that.

BG3 I believe was actively engaging their community during the game's actual development. Something Devs seem to rarely do.

Though I had little interest in the awards after browsing the nominations lists as it felt like a number of titles from Japanese developers got snubbed while they deliberately shoehorned Alan Wake 2 into almost every category.

I've just been fishing around for the Announcement Trailers for new games and stuff that were done during the show.

ATM Hyped for Monster Hunter Wilds, Light No Fire, and Visions of Mana. I'll probably get that FF16 expansion for the free PSN trophies and few hours of story at some point though.

I don't expect ff14 to keep winning the same awards multiple years in a row. Just because ff14 doesn't win the same award yearly doesn't mean it's bad but there was a lot of other really good games released this year that also deserve the award.

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ATM Hyped for Monster Hunter Wilds, Light No Fire, and Visions of Mana. I'll probably get that FF16 expansion for the free PSN trophies and few hours of story at some point though.

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Definitely hyped for the new Monster Hunter as it looks to be a successor to Monster Hunter World, Rise didn't really grip me. It was missing the immersive elements from World like vast and detailed biomes, monster behaviour, environmental effects, etc.

Somewhat sceptical about Light No Fire, the trailer looked very good but Sean Murray is still incredibly bad at tempering expectations, we don't need a repeat of No Man's Sky after they finally managed to restore their reputation.

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Cyberpunk is good now but no way would I have given it the award. . . They had to do what they did because they messed it up, and they did charge for it (in a sense) via the phantom liberty expansion. No Mans Sky also messed up but they've been doing it longer and for free.

I wouldn't have felt wrong if FFXIV earned it, but I felt like "nah man" for cyberpunk. They redeemed themselves now, that's good, but you need to now continue to do great stuff to get an award.

Shouldn't do bad, fix bad, and then be told you did great lol.

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I mean, thats kinda what FF14 went through in all fairness.

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Originally Posted by Striker44

Makes sense. I would expect FFXIV to be a strong contender in a year that a new xpac drops, since that's effectively the equivalent of an entire new game. In an off-year where only patches have been released? I wouldn't expect it to get awards over other games that are either brand new or releasing major expansions themselves.

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I'm gonna be honest with you, SE only won those awards last time around as a poke to Blizzard and nothing more then that, now that Blizzard has sorted their crap out, theres no reason to give SE any awards for FF14.

If anything the community communication from Blizzard since just before Dragonflight dropped has been some of the best in the industry and more so since its release.

Theres been nothing but silence from the SE devs outside Fanfest and even then they are saying less in comparison to the previous fan fests imo.

Best online Multiplayer game: BG3. When I did read this, the whole contest has lost reliability, the co-op part of BG3 is absolute trash.

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I'm gonna be honest with you, SE only won those awards last time around as a poke to Blizzard and nothing more then that, now that Blizzard has sorted their crap out, theres no reason to give SE any awards for FF14.

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And I'll be honest with you - what you're offering is nothing more than a personal opinion that sounds like one of those conspiracy theories people love to come up with on the internet. My opinion is that SE won last year because they are actually putting out a quality product that a lot of people very much enjoy.

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And I'll be honest with you - what you're offering is nothing more than a personal opinion that sounds like one of those conspiracy theories people love to come up with on the internet. My opinion is that SE won last year because they are actually putting out a quality product that a lot of people very much enjoy.

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Timing is everything, consider what just happened to blizzard just before the game awards.

And FF14 didnt get anything this year, try and think why.

SE isnt really great, and this whole expansion why its longer patch Candence, less content per patch and they are shorter lived.

SE wasnt even communicating that much at the start of Endwalker either, and it got lot less as it went on.

You are just both a new player to FF14 and a bitter wow player.

"Nobody cares about the awards" until your favorite game wins, then all of the sudden it feels great and makes you smile.
Honestly, the awards show is a great tool for companies to advertise their games. And SE definitely made use of it for FF7Rebirth.
FFXIV is just the plan B when they have no anticipated game.

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"Nobody cares about the awards" until your favorite game wins, then all of the sudden it feels great and makes you smile.
Honestly, the awards show is a great tool for companies to advertise their games. And SE definitely made use of it for FF7Rebirth.
FFXIV is just the plan B when they have no anticipated game.

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I'm a player not a shareholder, I couldn't care less if the game wins an award nor will it "feel great and make me smile"

I play a game because I enjoy it, I couldn't care less if it gets awards.

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Originally Posted by xbahax92

"Nobody cares about the awards" until your favorite game wins, then all of the sudden it feels great and makes you smile.
Honestly, the awards show is a great tool for companies to advertise their games. And SE definitely made use of it for FF7Rebirth.
FFXIV is just the plan B when they have no anticipated game.

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Winning awards shouldn't be what makes or breaks a game i think awards are useless in general. FF14 is a good enough game to play without winning awards and has won awards for multiple years. Why does not winning awards this year matter it doesn't ruin the fun of the game for not winning when it has won for multiple years previously. All the awards show is about is devs buying votes and has shown in the past that even with community votes the company dishing out the most money to win ends up winning anyway which doesn't make the awards genuine anyway.

Personally, I always ask myself "Would Geoff Keighley give this game an award?" before I even think of playing a game. I think that's healthy.

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I’m really confused how Alan wake won awards because I know a lotta people and exactly 0 of them had the game on their radar at all

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My friend and I were both confused about Alan wake winning too, we couldn't find anyone we knew who had even played the game at all or knew what it was even about.

After the awards I still have no idea what it's about.

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Originally Posted by Cynric

After the awards I still have no idea what it's about.

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It's about which company had the biggest advertisement budget to win an award, lol.

I mean did it deserve it?

Lets be frank, the game isn't at a peak at this moment of time even the most ardent of defenders will find it hard to argue that, a bit of the SHB shine is now going off.

Maybe XIV will come back strong with DT after what I've come to call midwalker , but currently I dont think XIV was at the level it deserved a TGA this year at least.