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

[Y2K21]

What even is an "ongoing" game? It seems to be the place where they lump MMOs, live service games, or games that actively get updates and new content on a regular basis -- that is, "ongoing" rather than arriving at a "concluded" state. Does that really describe Cyberpunk? Why? Because the problems with the initial release got patched, and they made a DLC chapter? Like, FFXVI just released DLC, is that an "ongoing" game now? Was Baldur's Gate 3 "ongoing" all that time it was in Early Access and getting periodically updated? Seems like if there is ever a patch or a change of some kind, you can call anything "ongoing."

Seems like a category that needs to be defined better. Or maybe they didn't want to literally have a "Best MMO" category because realistically there are never too many of those at any given time so it would just be the same contenders year after year..?

Ongoing game is literally just "game people still play after its lifespan of a year". MMOs dont have a category because its literally not a popular category with many games in it. Its like having an RTS award category to see which version of Total War wins.

[Mosha]

Ongoing game is literally just "game people still play after its lifespan of a year". MMOs dont have a category because its literally not a popular category with many games in it. Its like having an RTS award category to see which version of Total War wins.

Total war is RTT, not RTS. It's kind of why the award is for the best strategy these days so it covers RTS, RTT, Grand Strategy, 4X, Wargames etc.

[Fyrebrand]

Ongoing game is literally just "game people still play after its lifespan of a year".

Okay, so that's every single video game ever made, then? The whole category is just "Games That Came Out Before This Year"? Just give the award to Skyrim every single year, I guess.

[Y2K21]

Okay, so that's every single video game ever made, then? The whole category is just "Games That Came Out Before This Year"? Just give the award to Skyrim every single year, I guess.

Its basically a category for any game that either has a resurgence or is an on-going multiplayer game. It literally could be an MMO vs a Shooter vs a MOBA vs a single player game that just got fixed up to be usable vs a sports game.