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The Game Awards 2023 Players’ Voice voting has opened

Round 1 features 30 contenders

Marco Wutz

The Game Awards 2023 Players’ Voice voting has opened
The Game Awards 2023 Players’ Voice voting has opened /

The Players’ Voice Award at The Game Awards is traditionally the only category that’s purely based on fan votes – and thus nothing more than a glorified popularity contest. Nevertheless, communities often fight quite hard to get their game the recognition they think it deserves, which led to some spicy developments in the past.

Last year, Sonic fans felt that Sonic Frontiers had been snubbed as it wasn’t nominated for any of the real awards, which led to toxic behavior against the fanbases of other titles, among them Genshin Impact. Out of spite, the HoYoverse game’s community mobilized its vast Chinese manpower to top the polls, which in turn led to botting accusations from Sonic fans and a pause of voting. When Geoff Keighley announced Genshin Impact as the award winner at the 2022 show, he emphasized that bot votes had been taken out of the result first – indicating that it had been the Sonic fans all along who used bots.

The Game Awards 2023 poster showing its airing date and a trophy.
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The Game Awards 2023 Players' Voice nominees and how to vote

After this drama, people thought that the Players’ Voice Award may have been scrapped for 2023, but it’s here now. Users can cast their votes for up to ten games out of a total of 30 titles competing in the first round. The following games have been nominated for this category:

Users can vote on the official website. Round 1 is scheduled to end on November 29, 2023, at 9pm ET.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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