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

[Kacho_Nacho]

Like NMS, BG3 is still improving, it received 13 hotfixes and 5 patches since its launch, which is pretty good. With no additional cost too. The game is still buggy though, but I wouldn't call it broken.

I'm sorry you did not have a great experience with it, but it seems to vary from players.

I don't think taking this game as an example to say TGA's choice of games are only popular, often mediocre ones, is very honest. It's still a pretty great game, despite its bugs

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I am being honest. Why should someone say a game as buggy as BG3 deserves its award? Their victory clearly shows how much money and publicity sways the jury. It's a great example of why no one should take the TGA awards seriously. It's like the Grammy Awards of games.

[MsMisato]

Winners are chosen by jury. Some games who win are most certainly not the popular games that get the most player votes. Not that I expected FFXIV to win on-going game when pitted against Fortnite and Genshin. Especially since it's been a contentious expac.
Also Cyberpunk shouldn't even have been in the category to begin with. Hotfixes and ONE DLC, no matter how good, do not make an 'on-going' game. Else nearly every game would qualify for 'on-going'. There was a couple of games that had no reason to be in the category they were in.

That being said: BG3! It really deserves it and so does Neil Newbon. I'm glad that was the one of the few nominations that a lot of people agreed with.

nah CP2077 a SP game won out against co-ops/mmo because the truth is not mo matter how bad of launch that CP2077 had, CDPR listened and responded to the community and kept everyone with updates regularly and their most recent update was 33 GB which added even more things. Thats why they won. The devs in this game or the other games in the category really don't interact with the community at large and this is beyond FFXIV live letters and such or adding more and more items to the cash shop vs what we get in game. Devs really need to take note just from FFXIV but other co-op/mmos

[Oizen]

FFXIV honestly had no right even being nominated for either award imo.

What we have now isn't bad, but its pretty bare-minimum, nothing extraordinary about the community support or as an ongoing game. There are plenty of other games out there doing both of these far better than FFXIV.

[TheMightyMollusk]

a game as buggy as BG3

You keep saying that, but I'm 15 hours in and haven't encountered any bugs. The AI pathfinding is a little awkward, but that's the only problem I've found.

[Absurdity]

You keep saying that, but I'm 15 hours in and haven't encountered any bugs. The AI pathfinding is a little awkward, but that's the only problem I've found.

Probably up to random chance. Not saying they didn't encounter a lot of bugs, since the experience can often vary wildly on PC. I've played over 100 hours and had maybe 1 crash.

[Rolder50]

Probably up to random chance. Not saying they didn't encounter a lot of bugs, since the experience can often vary wildly on PC. I've played over 100 hours and had maybe 1 crash.

The only real problems I had were in the third act, the city just didn't load properly once or twice. Fixed with a reload so no big deal though.

[Wawaya]

*emphasis mine*

I am being honest. Why should someone say a game as buggy as BG3 deserves its award? Their victory clearly shows how much money and publicity sways the jury. It's a great example of why no one should take the TGA awards seriously. It's like the Grammy Awards of games.

Like said before, it seems to vary from players. From my experience, I didn't find BG3 that buggy, but it still does have some, majority of them were harmless.
The game is not unplayable, maybe by being very unlucky. But even I, who runs this game on a HDD, while being under the recommended requirements, experienced very few crashes
I'm currently at my sixth run, so I did play the game, I'm not 'defending' it blindly. I did not played every games that were nominated, so I can not say if BG3 deserved its award or not. I respect your opinion about it though, but to say it should not deserves an award because of its bugs is a pity, the game is much more than that

[RitsukoSonoda]

Like said before, it seems to vary from players. From my experience, I didn't find BG3 that buggy, but it still does have some, majority of them were harmless.
The game is not unplayable, maybe by being very unlucky. But even I, who runs this game on a HDD, while being under the recommended requirements, experienced very few crashes
I'm currently at my sixth run, so I did play the game, I'm not 'defending' it blindly. I did not played every games that were nominated, so I can not say if BG3 deserved its award or not. I respect your opinion about it though, but to say it should not deserves an award because of its bugs is a pity, the game is much more than that

In regards to PC games bug issues will vary by person far more than on a console due to hardware differences. Take Cyberpunk 2077 and Fallout 76 when they launched. I experienced hardly any glitches or bugs on either title at launch. Cyberpunk was an issue with a glitched door to a side gig and a couple instances of falling through the map, Fallout 76 was a single bugged quest and a few weird ragdoll instances with corpses of things I killed.

[Wawaya]

In regards to PC games bug issues will vary by person far more than on a console due to hardware.

True, that's what I was trying to say in the first part of my message! My apologizes if it was not very understandable, english is not my first language. But my point is, it's still a pity to focus only on a game's bugs to determine its quality

[Iscah]

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

Because there was no actual new FFXIV expansion released this year? I assume it's not eligible for all the big awards without that factor.

Also because other games exist and only one can win the prize. Someone has to be crowned "best" even if all of them were hypothetically excellent.