Thoughts On DLC/Expansions/Remakes Getting Nominations At Game Awards

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The Game Awards Recently announced that DLCs, Expansions, Remakes/Remasters are also now eligible for all categories. What is your take on this.

While people may be concerned about SOTE getting a nomination, consider this the expansion it self was half the size of the main game. If it was sold as a spin-off, or even as a sequel would you have the same opinion?

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Official - DLC/Expansions & Remakes Are Eligible For Game Awards

The Game Awards: Expansion packs, new game seasons, DLCs, remakes and remasters are eligible in all categories, if the jury deems the new creative and technical work to be worthy of a nomination https://thegameawards.com/faq
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The Elden ring clause.

Honestly pretty lame. ER dlc was amazing, but it already got its time on the spotlight. They should be focusing on celebrating games the actually came out this year giving the spotlight to them. A ER dlc GOTY nomination could’ve gone to space marines or astro bot.
 
They should have limited it to ‘Expansion’.

I know the language has shifted over the years, and some DLC is just expansions, but including all DLC and especially ‘Season’ is just nuts..

I’d like to nominate Diablo 3 season 14 for GotY.
 
This honestly sucks ass. I hate this decision. I’m only very tentatively ok with remakes being in the conversation if they have truly done something different or majorly improved from the original (like in the case of FF7 or RE4), but they should make a category for best expansion / DLC and leave it at that.
 
Since game companies would rather release the same games over and over again, the awards show will give them the same awards over and over again. Fucking hell.
 
Like others have said. Make new categories.

Not surprised though the VGA have lacked credibility for a while now.
 
Remakes/remasters should be their own category. Expansions/dlc should be it's own category. Neither should be eligible for GOTY (unless the DLC/expansion was released in the same year as the game)

Seasons should never be up for consideration.
 
TGA never really mattered much anyways. The only goty that ever matters is your own personal one. But this does kind of strip the last remnants of legitimacy from TGA.
 
If an expansion is so big and great that it gets a nomination / prize despite being in the shadow of the main game then it deserves to be up there. But it should be judged in isolation without the main game's content and as if it was a standalone game, just like any other.
 
If that's the case then Shadow of the Erdtree is winning. this has not been a big year for games, and while i wasn't a massive fan of SotE, it was still a massive release and success and I can't think of anything else as big as it
 
Reading the actual wording, it makes sense. A DLC that's just more of the same, even if that game is already GOTY worthy, is probably not going to be nominated. But if a DLC does improve the experience in a significant way it's clearly worthy of being recognised as such.
 
That’s perfectly reasonable. For example, Monster Hunter is a series that still puts out banger expansions that usually rival the size of the base game. And then there are MMOs that sometimes have amazing maps, stories, and such added with their expansions.

And some Remakes just deserve the acknowledgment of taking an old idea and reimagining it into something brand new and fresh. I still think it’s been fair that the Resident Evil remakes have been up for awards in the past, and I want Silent Hill 2 remake to be up there because it was absolutely astounding.
 
Should just be a separate category. Game of the Year should be the best game to come out that year, not the best dlc to release that year. If you want to add dlc to the game awards make it separate. DLC's and Expansions for One Category and Remasters/Remakes for another. Problem solved.
 
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