[Update]Voice of TGA Players "Original God" has overtaken the number of votes and raised controversy outside the venue. Players are dissatisfied with bribery and vote-filling behavior

The player community voting “The Players’ Voice” held by the TGA Game Awards Ceremony has always been regarded as a pre-ceremony award skirmish, but this year, before the ceremony started, there have been accusations of “bribery” from players outside the venue The controversial voice of manipulating voting, and the central point of the incident revolves around “Genshin Impact”.

There are three rounds of voting for “Voice of Players”. Before the second round of voting ended on the 4th, many players noticed that the ranking of a game had risen sharply.

Just 3 hours remain in #TheGameAwards Players’ Voice: Round 2 voting.

So far these 5 games are set to advance.

Pick your favorite 5: https://t.co/gBuS7ipx9B

Round 3 begins Monday to pick the winning game. pic.twitter.com/dcRoNlTjo1

— The Game Awards (@thegameawards) December 3, 2022

Due to the rapid rise in the number of votes of “Yuanshin” in the second round, it caused some overseas players to complain.Noticeand expressdissatisfiedSome supporters of the game believe that the operator of “Yuanshin God” uses the award as an excuse to distribute creation crystals (diamonds/rough stones) to players, so they encourage “Yuanshin God” players to vote, and strongly criticize this as a “bribery” behavior.

However, after the TGA 2021 awards last year, “Yuanshin” won the “Best Action Game Award”,The operation of the international version also sent 1,600 rough stones to players, which is basically a common player benefit in mobile game operations.On December 4, due to“Original God” won the “PlayStation Partner Awards 2022 GRAND AWARD” award, and the Japanese version also issued rough stones as rewards。

holy shit Mihoyo must’ve promised primogems at some point we just lost that lead to genshin in 7 hours pic.twitter.com/jSzIknSlOC

— Mlick (@Mlickles) December 2, 2022

However, for the supporters of “Sonic Unknown Frontier”, it is unfair for “Original God” to surpass the number of votes in a short period of time, which makes players Reddit The forum questioned the host Geoff Keighley, thinking that the “Yuanshin” community obviously used rough stones as bribes to let players use robots to vote.

Although Keighley replied that he did not know whether the vote was a robot, he believed that all of this was due to the active fan community to support his game being nominated, and said frankly: “The original intention of this is to let the operating company promote its nomination for the game, to inspire A campaign powered by fan votes.”

In view of the dissatisfaction of the player community, although Keighley said at the end of his reply that he would investigate, this may not affect the voting results of “Voice of Players”.

In fact, as foreign media my city To be honest, the TGA Game Awards is still one of the game industry’s propaganda machines in essence. Although it cannot be compared with political scandals such as the Panama Papers or the Watergate incident, the opaque nomination and voting awards have indeed caused players to dissatisfy with the winning games dispute.

So far,“Sonic Unknown Frontier” temporarily ranked first in the third round of votingAs for whether there will be changes in the end, I believe that many overseas players are paying close attention to the movement of the votes of “Yuan Shen”.

[Update: 2022/12/6 04:15 pm]One hour after writing this article, the number of votes for “Original God” has tied for first place with “Sonic Unknown Frontier” at 40%. It is still unknown who will win the deer.

[Update: 2022/12/6 at 06:00 pm]“Yuanshin God” surpassed “Sonic Unknown Frontier” and “Elden’s Circle” in the number of votes today (6) in just a few hours, and temporarily became the number one game in the voice of players with a large gap in the number of votes.