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[–]Chay4707 5061 points5062 points  (139 children)

I love how the announcer just straight up said “after we remove all the bots” idk why it was funny as fuck to me.

[–]Qverlord37 2517 points2518 points  (114 children)

perfect salt in the wound for sonic fans, who accused Genshin of botting first without any justification.

there was a graph showing a steady rise of genshin vote with a correlation to when chinese fan woke up and vote.

meanwhile Sonic fan actually botted, because after the accusation, there was a abnormal spike in the voting for Sonic. you can't get that kind of spike unless the community was very coordinated with their vote, so the only answer was that Sonic fans botted and it crashed the site.

[–]Devilmay1233[S] 1073 points1074 points  (33 children)

Yeah the irony. Most of their toxic sonic stans still in denial while the matured ones moved on.

[–]Scheibenpflaster 377 points378 points  (16 children)

I'm more salty at the lack of best music nomination

Mfers knocked it out of the park with the OST

[–]jiluminati302 136 points137 points  (5 children)

I’M HANGING ON TO THE OTHER SIDE

[–]Ghost3603 47 points48 points  (1 child)

I WON'T GIVE UP TILL THE END OF MEEEEEEEE

[–]MR-DEDPULPlayStation 83 points84 points  (2 children)

IM HERE TO GO BEYOND MY LIMITS, NOT TO COMPROMISE

[–]Ghost3603 40 points41 points  (1 child)

AND YOU CAN TELL ME IF I MEAN IT LOOKIN' IN MY EYES

[–]HungarianMockingjay 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I felt the same way when Ace Combat 7 was snubbed for the music nomination back a couple of years ago. The thing that Sonic and Ace Combat games have in common is that their soundtracks always kick ass!

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      [–]Fizzay 279 points280 points  (41 children)

      I think it should've been Ragnarok or Elden Ring for sure, but Genshin has been good too, and while the free primogems are nice, the salt from Sonic fans who will remain in denial is funny.

      I think people took this too seriously. It's literally a popular vote, and Genshin is incredibly popular, even for a F2P game. It's just silly to get worked up about.

      [–][deleted] 105 points106 points  (0 children)

      It’s like getting angry back in 2018-2019 when Fortnite was winning “Most Popular” game votes. Like…. it’s the most popular game… period.

      [–]nonpuissant 17 points18 points  (0 children)

      tbh a huge part of why genshin is so popular is because it is f2p, not in spite of it. It's super accessible, casual-friendly, and runs on pretty much anything lol

      Pretty much the lowest barrier to entry for an rpg out there. It's not the most amazing game or anything, but it is probably the best f2p game out there and honestly stands on level ground with some paid games. It's definitely pushed the envelope of that category.

      [–]Extraordinary_DREB 160 points161 points  (19 children)

      Blame the Genshin haters, first they rallied on Sonic to spite Genshin fans. And then, they created that "beating up Lumine" pic and used some slurs on CN. CN spotted it and chose 🎻 so they rallied everyone to vote for Genshin

      [–]Fizzay 121 points122 points  (11 children)

      Yeah, riling up a fanbase against yours isn't a good idea if you're trying to win a vote lol

      [–]Extraordinary_DREB 55 points56 points  (10 children)

      I really don't know how hard is it to just shut it, take the award, then gloat after all that's over.

      Even if they do gloat, I doubt the majority of the playerbase would care. They just were spurred on after the slurs and the "beating up Lumine" pic

      [–]JustinJakeAshton 31 points32 points  (9 children)

      Now we're blessed with the "Lumine fucking Sonic in the ass" pic.

      [–]Extraordinary_DREB 14 points15 points  (0 children)

      oh no lol

      [–]netparse 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      hashahaahaaa

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          [–]Fullertonjr 31 points32 points  (9 children)

          Genshin has been out for two years and has accumulated more fans. Not necessarily that it is better than GOW or Elden Ring, but GoW hasn’t even been out that long and is only available on PlayStation. Elden Ring is absolutely fantastic, but again, it isn’t a game that was made for everyone. It was made specifically for a mature audience. Genshin impact is available nearly on any device that you can think of and has no limitations on availability, and is continuously updated.

          Genshin should have been the clear winner without any doubt.

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              [–]Devilmay1233[S] 162 points163 points  (0 children)

              That was the best part. I bursted out laughing

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                [–]TheOtherWhiteCastleSwitch 3742 points3743 points  (47 children)

                I’m sure the internet will react to this outcome in a calm and reasonable manner, as they are known to do.

                [–]kamiloslav 1352 points1353 points  (25 children)

                Bill Clinton may be the subject for next few hours covering that

                [–][deleted] 346 points347 points  (24 children)

                Bill Clinton will hold back the fights for now

                [–][deleted] 83 points84 points  (21 children)

                Can someone explain the bill Clinton meme, I don’t know where that came from

                [–]man-with-potato-gunConsole 157 points158 points  (20 children)

                Someone rushed the stage at the last minute during the goty acceptance speech and said “ I’d like to thank my orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton” The gentleman was later arrested

                [–]Epinephrine186 144 points145 points  (8 children)

                I don't think he rushed the stage I think he blended in with the elden ring group and just walked up there with them.

                [–]Farren246 57 points58 points  (6 children)

                He looked horribly out of place the entire time, and I was asking the people watching with me if he was someone's 14 year old son or something. I wonder why security didn't immediately go on stage and take him away; perhaps they were hoping he wouldn't make an incident and just wanted to stand there. Evidently he was not satisfied with only being on stage.

                [–]Illuminaso 32 points33 points  (0 children)

                I think that Miyazaki and co. assumed that he was Game Awards staff or something, so didn't think anything of it. And the Game Awards security staff assumed that he was part of Miyazaki's group. So nobody noticed until it was too late.

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                You can even see the guy next to Miyazaki ask him as the kid takes the microphone "Hey is this kid supposed to be here?"

                [–]Archernick 50 points51 points  (3 children)

                It was immediately obvious by the body language that he didn't belong; constantly eyeing up the mic between translations, glancing at the sides at the likely huge glares from security/staff.

                What I'm surprised by is that the audio engineers weren't primed to cut to the feed to the mic after From Software finished up; it would've neutralized the attempted sabotage and allowed security to scoop him up without a fuss. They had plenty of time but in the end, they let him spout his cringe anyway.

                [–]Farren246 30 points31 points  (0 children)

                "Oh he's just thanking his rabbi, I guess he really was part of From- aaaah shit, I'm going to be fired."

                [–]arcticrunePC 7 points8 points  (1 child)

                They were fading out and when the guy came to the mic the lowered the magic and brought the mic back up again cause they thought one of the Elden ring team wanted to say something. It looks like they were trying to do their job but got bamboozled

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                    [–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

                    Oh ok, I heard someone say that near the end of the speech but I had briefly looked away. I heard Geoff kind of dismiss it and move on but i didn’t know what it was about and assumed it was a preexisting meme.

                    [–]JustinJakeAshton 9 points10 points  (2 children)

                    I'm disappointed it had nothing to do with Guilty Gear.

                    [–]man-with-potato-gunConsole 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                    I mean my source IS that I made it the fuck up

                    [–]TheDildoOfGodsPlayStation 11 points12 points  (5 children)

                    He didn't rush to the stage though. He casually walked on with the rest of the ER team. And casually got to the mic and said it after the speech.

                    [–]Zandrick 2 points3 points  (4 children)

                    I think technically rushing the stage means going on without permission

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                        [–]Deertopus 161 points162 points  (7 children)

                        Are you a calm and reasonable person

                        [–]Hunchun 81 points82 points  (3 children)

                        If the moment calls for……calm.

                        [–][deleted] 51 points52 points  (2 children)

                        I'd say the moment calls for calm, yeah.

                        [–]DMind_Gaming 9 points10 points  (1 child)

                        So can we have peace?

                        [–]UpvotesCrappyPosts 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                        ….no

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                          [–]Pokefreaker-san 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                          it's part of the reason of the push for the genshin win too, to see the chaotic reaction of r/gaming.

                          [–]Successful-Pen5816 47 points48 points  (2 children)

                          I like your pfp

                          [–]TheOtherWhiteCastleSwitch 40 points41 points  (1 child)

                          Same goes to you, fellow man of culture

                          [–]Additional-North-683 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                          Separated at birth

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                            [–]Which-Palpitation 934 points935 points  (54 children)

                            Unlike Chris Judge I am speechless

                            [–]Devilmay1233[S] 602 points603 points  (40 children)

                            Whats funny because before he announced the winners he said after removing all the bot votes the winner is genshin. Sonic famboys are fuming. Chat was glorious to see.

                            [–]windowhihi 279 points280 points  (32 children)

                            This is how popular vote works. If you let everyone vote then the winner is most likely the most popular one not the best one. Like, if you let all people vote for best soccer player per year, 90% of chance it is Messi or Ronaldo.

                            I do not get why Sonic community is mad.

                            [–]Thalarione 290 points291 points  (11 children)

                            They could win... But they started attacking genshin community and it pissed many Chinese players who didn't care about this before. And you can't outvote chinas millions of players.

                            [–]firesoul377 225 points226 points  (9 children)

                            Lesson learned. Don't be racist.

                            [–]FactoryUser 165 points166 points  (2 children)

                            What's funny is that people were making shit up like TGA was banned in China when they literally announced you can watch it on bilibili in China.

                            [–]syanda 48 points49 points  (1 child)

                            I think that's more of tencent (who's like a huge invester in bilibili) hating genshin because they couldn't buy genshin's developers - iirc they deliberately didn't announce one of genshin's recent awards and got mocked by Chinese users.

                            [–]obihz6 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                            ...in reality the major investor of bilibili is mihoyo ironically, is thank to mihoyo bilibili become that big and is thank bilibili that mihoyo become that big

                            [–]HopelessCineromantic 51 points52 points  (1 child)

                            I think you'll be sorely disappointed if you believe that's the lesson they took from this.

                            [–]Devilmay1233[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

                            The matured ones did. The toxic ones nope still in denial

                            [–]Valkyrie08 32 points33 points  (1 child)

                            Feels like this could end up in an Internet Historian video. Probably won't but the circumstances surrounding it are fascinating.

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                                [–]Devilmay1233[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

                                Because they underestimate the genshin community and thinks its not big like them.

                                [–]TheDragonborn117 34 points35 points  (6 children)

                                I don’t get why they’re so mad either, I could care less about either game and I have absolutely zero interest in either

                                Yeah it’s kinda hilarious how Genshin Impact won Player’s Voice over Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok, but i’m going to move on with my day and not really care because I don’t base my entire life and self-worth on a game

                                The fact that they’re so asshurt over one award is absolutely hilarious and pathetic at the same time

                                [–]Connortsunami 30 points31 points  (2 children)

                                I haven't played Elden Ring and GoW:R was objectively a better game in all fields, but Players Voice is a mass vote, and those games only really have a huge following in Western countries, as opposed to the sheer might of Genshin's fanbase internationally (of course, including half or more of which is China)

                                They didn't stand much of a chance in a voting numbers game

                                [–]mlodydziad420 10 points11 points  (0 children)

                                65 million active players for genshin, thats more than all other nominies for the goty combined.

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                                      [–]PhasmicPlays 19 points20 points  (0 children)

                                      Bro rubbed it into them LMAO

                                      [–]Which-Palpitation 17 points18 points  (1 child)

                                      This has been a terrific award show lmfao

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                                        [–]Devilmay1233[S] 73 points74 points  (6 children)

                                        I am so happy Christopher just won. The guy is amazing and has such a good personality. Live chat was toxic chernobyl tho.

                                        [–]Navetsss 33 points34 points  (0 children)

                                        3.6 Roentgen. Not great but not terrible

                                        [–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

                                        I honestly got to the point where i tend to block chat especially If a minority shows up on screen. It's just too toxic.

                                        [–]musclecard54 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                                        Live chat is always a toxic wasteland. No matter the event

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                                            [–]firesoul377 659 points660 points  (48 children)

                                            Never diss the sheer power of spite

                                            [–]Robot1me 167 points168 points  (2 children)

                                            the sheer power of spite

                                            For real, it's incredibly easy to miss. For example, I recall posts about games warning that things like lootboxes became more predatory. Basically telling people not to support that. Then a bunch of people responds they are going to buy stuff just because of the post, lmao. Perfect example how some simply live of spite. Since there is a real difference between "nice to know, but my choice still" and "for telling what I should do I'm going to do the opposite now, hahaha!"

                                            [–]DarthUrbosa 12 points13 points  (1 child)

                                            A good portion of society is composed of people with “oppositional behavioural disorder” and it’s very infuriating.

                                            [–]Leshawkcomics 100 points101 points  (39 children)

                                            I love how a lot of the spite started with people accusing genshin players of voting to get rewards.

                                            Then genshin players who genuinely liked the game started voting regardless of rewards, just to show they love the game.

                                            And when genshin won, they didn't even get enough rewards for a full multi.

                                            And in the social media circles im in, the MAJORITY who were originally insisting they only did it for rewards are outraged on behalf of the genshin players, because the rewards were so little compared to the achievement of the fans, here.

                                            They're like "Damn, girl. You're letting Mihoyo treat you like this?"

                                            Like, even their enemies are stunned by the developer's sheer stinginess. (And if you know genshin fans, pointing out their parent company's stinginess is probably unintentionally the best clapback sonic fans could ever utter)

                                            [–]UrBoiThePupper55 47 points48 points  (13 children)

                                            As a Genshin fan, I admit that the amount of primos we get feels very stingy (never said/typed that before, I have no idea how to spell it), but we have already been getting rewards from other awards/nominations, so adding together, it is a pretty decent amount.

                                            Edit: comment below kinda speaking facts

                                            [–]Leshawkcomics 49 points50 points  (12 children)

                                            To anyone reading this.

                                            This is why it's the best clapback. Genshin fans know it's stingy but it's like watching people getting exploited try to justify it like "Well, they only pay me a dollar a day, but i'm taking two or three shifts so it all adds up to a decent amount" how dare you suggest I deserve more?

                                            They basically end up calling themselves entitled for even thinking they deserve more than they're getting. And that's sad, cause this is r/gaming where people arent afraid to both express fondness for a game while calling out the bad practices of the parent company, they shouldn't fear being downvoted for pointing out the obvious.

                                            [–]UrBoiThePupper55 14 points15 points  (6 children)

                                            Glad I could be a good example lmao.

                                            Also, the fear of expressing your opinion on liking/disliking a game and calling things out is very valid. I risk being called a pedo or something by mentioning liking Genshin. Others risk getting downvoted for disliking Genshin, even if it is a perfectly understandable reason.

                                            (Srry if what I said was not what u were trying to say. But I felt like it had to be said either way)

                                            [–]Leshawkcomics 6 points7 points  (2 children)

                                            What you said is valid. dont worry. I'm glad you said it.

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                                                    [–]alzw1998 1643 points1644 points  (251 children)

                                                    What happened to Sonic in this case is really the definition of shooting one’s self in the foot. I’m fairly certain they would have stood a better chance if they had just kept quiet instead of stirring a hornet’s nest. One does not simply challenge the Chinese gaming community. Especially in a numbers game.

                                                    [–]revertiblefate 327 points328 points  (143 children)

                                                    Whats the context with genshin vs sonic community?

                                                    [–]vicelvine 831 points832 points  (60 children)

                                                    Some Sonic fan insult genshin Chinese community with racist insult and calling them bots and hacking the vote, Chinese player who didn't care about the award decide to vote Genshin just to pissed Sonic fan. Then Sonic fan decide to attack whole genshin community, which is the stupidest move ever.

                                                    [–]AsixKnight 505 points506 points  (5 children)

                                                    And then being a hypocrite they're the one that used bot and crash the voting site.

                                                    [–]Tyrion69Lannister 163 points164 points  (4 children)

                                                    This is the funniest part. Going rabid shit throwing crazy that you do what you accuse others of doing to such an extreme extent that you get caught doing it. I’d say they win the award for craziest fanbase.

                                                    [–]Ghost3603 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                                                    In my defense, I'm a Frontiers fan and I genuinely did not know about any of this

                                                    [–]goliathfasa 185 points186 points  (27 children)

                                                    I don’t get why Sonic fans would want to be racist to Genshin fans. We’re talking about western fandom here. It’s a group of western fans of a Japanese game attacking the western fans of a Chinese game. Just boggles the mind.

                                                    [–]vicelvine 221 points222 points  (2 children)

                                                    Genshin Impact is more popular than sonic and some people hate popular thing, so when Sonic had more vote than genshin in round 2, their pride got over their head and celebrate it too early.

                                                    [–]stealthypic 72 points73 points  (1 child)

                                                    I mean, is it stupid, trying to stop somebody from having fun with a thing you don't like? Yes, very much. Is it also entertaining when the whole thing blows up in everyone's faces? Yes, yes it is and I love it.

                                                    [–]Telandria 127 points128 points  (6 children)

                                                    Becuase Genshin Impact = Anime Waifus and thus is only played by pedophiles. /s

                                                    I shit you not, I’ve seen people here on reddit who get super into that exact mindset to a frankly disturbing degree. Made all the moreso because the sheer vitriol those people have for anime artstyles of any kind leads me to assume it’s entirely projection.

                                                    It doesn’t help either that some people also treat their own opinions on what’s enjoyable as objective fact, and then fall into some sort of screeching rage-monkey mindset when confronted by someone else enjoying something they don’t must be delusional. Or worse, confronted by something they dislike being popular.

                                                    When those two groups overlap….? Yeah. This is the kind of shit that happens.

                                                    [–]shamoke 17 points18 points  (0 children)

                                                    The degenerates that frequent anime themed stuff make the entire community look bad. It's same case for Sonic fans. We hear about weirdo obsessed Sonic fans, but rarely the normal ones because they don't make news.

                                                    [–]YCaballero076 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                                                    Genshin only played by pedos? My man you should get 63 Millions of demands by Calumny, quick, edit the post!

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                                                      [–]HelpImAHugeDisaster 40 points41 points  (2 children)

                                                      Because "Popular = bad/hate" and tbh it's the Sonic fans who started all of this just for being the most vote in round 3 and suddenly attacking the CN Genshin with racial slurs and so the CN community voted Genshin just to piss the Sonic fans. They really did poked the wrong hornet's nest

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                                                        [–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (10 children)

                                                        Why are people so dedicated to this corny ash award ceremony 😭😭.

                                                        [–]vicelvine 49 points50 points  (7 children)

                                                        As far as I know, we; genshin player didn't care at all about this award. We care more about new update 3.3 contents and Mihoyo's Leaker hunt decree. We just vote for Genshin to pissed Sonic fans because they start throwing racist insult toward Chinese players.

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                                                            [–]phamnhuhiendr 157 points158 points  (2 children)

                                                            genshin commnunity is chilling when sonic community attack genshin players on twitter, and a very paticular fan arts and some racist tweets get leaked to the chinese community, then game over for sonic fans.

                                                            [–]LoveBurstsLP 68 points69 points  (71 children)

                                                            It's surprising not many ppl know this but basically a bunch of anons from 4chan wanted Genshin to lose so started to vote for sonic.

                                                            Looking at Genshins player base there is no way any of those games stand a chance against their numbers.

                                                            [–]Breaker-of-circles 78 points79 points  (69 children)

                                                            Genshin is a wonderful game that could even be re-released as a complete standalone game in the future once the story is done. It could rival some AAA titles from some big name companies right now, and it's totally free if you are patient and not a gambling addict.

                                                            That's how good GI is.

                                                            Sadly, like the way of Fortnite, and minecraft before them, people who know jack shit about the game started hating on it and even major issues like alleged pedophilia, racism, etc.

                                                            I'm not sure if this stemmed from it being a Chinese game or what, but Mihoyo, GI's creators, are not Tencent which is the shitty Chinese gaming company.

                                                            If people could only give it a chance.

                                                            [–]Mazrim_reddit 64 points65 points  (31 children)

                                                            Genshin has a cutesy anime style which is enough to get a lot of people(mainly Americans) extremely upset for some reason

                                                            This is despite its closest comparison maybe being botw which Reddit loved

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                                                                  [–]Offduty_shill 122 points123 points  (15 children)

                                                                  I honestly think they would've won if they just didn't say anything. Genshin players didn't really give a shit about this until the drama started being talked about. And Sonic fans seemed really passionate about wanting this win.

                                                                  People say Genshin gives free primos for award wins and they might, but when they last gave primos for TGA win it was for best mobile/ongoing game, not for fan voted award like this one.

                                                                  I'm honestly surprised it didn't win best mobile game but idk I've never played/heard about the marvel game before today so can't really say anything about it.

                                                                  [–]Codewrecker_TC 75 points76 points  (1 child)

                                                                  Gonna be honest a big portion of the Genshin base didn't care about the choice awards until the drama started. Once you get someone upset in the community, though, all it takes is rumors of free rewards to get the hoard to awaken.

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                                                                    [–]fluffyplayery 29 points30 points  (0 children)

                                                                    They fucked around and found out.

                                                                    [–]Qverlord37 252 points253 points  (8 children)

                                                                    Sonic fans thought they were just going up against a regular game fandom, they didn't realize that they were also picking a fight with the greater Chinese population.

                                                                    this was the equivalent of Pearl Harbor.

                                                                    [–]Frostivus 100 points101 points  (4 children)

                                                                    Not just Chinese. Genshin Impact is massive as a pop culture phenomenon in Asia period.

                                                                    It’s pretty much a household name. Dedicated merchandise shops in South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia. Fan run conventions. Heck, in my city there are statues in the roads.

                                                                    [–]ZX3000GT1 20 points21 points  (1 child)

                                                                    Can confirm. I'm living in Indonesia and have been to some cosplay conventions. Literally 2/3rds of the gaming cosplay were Genshin.

                                                                    Combination of being free, available on smartphones that most people have (a lot of people didn't have a PC/laptop good enough to run Genshin, much less a console) and Waifu characters.

                                                                    [–]Hotspur000 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                                                                    There's a dedicated merch store in Taiwan? Do you know where it is?

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                                                                      [–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

                                                                      They really thought they were on to something 💀 rip...

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                                                                        [–]sykog77 62 points63 points  (0 children)

                                                                        Sonic fans are dumb, ok? I would know

                                                                        [–]HonkedOffJohn 190 points191 points  (71 children)

                                                                        Let’s not pretend Genshin isn’t popular outside of China. Between a middling Sonic game with a great soundtrack to an outstanding new region expansion in Genshin, I think we all know what the better game is.

                                                                        [–]grumpykruppy 16 points17 points  (0 children)

                                                                        Not to mention that Genshin ALSO has a great soundtrack lol.

                                                                        [–]ItsAmerico 31 points32 points  (0 children)

                                                                        Yeah it’s routinely in the top games on PSN

                                                                        [–]ayyLumao 51 points52 points  (8 children)

                                                                        Yeah Genshin is absolutely MASSIVE, and it's free, and it's on mobile, it's so much more accessible so it has such a clear advantage, weird move for the Sonic fandom to try anything on them just to get assblasted back to Sonic Spinball

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                                                                        Oi

                                                                        Sonic Spinball was fantastic

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                                                                          [–]FactoryUser 71 points72 points  (1 child)

                                                                          People just say Genshin is a China game because they're salty. Genshin is way more popular outside China than any of the other games in that category as well with maybe the exception of Elden Ring. And Genshin is definitely going to outlast Elden Ring in popularity as well because it's a live service game. Frontiers is a mid game at best being boosted by a nostalgic dedicated fandom for not being completely shit. I don't think Genshin deserves players choice because I don't believe games that released in 2020 shouldn't be in the game awards but it certainly doesn't belong to Sonic based on the quality of the game either. It would be Elden Ring. In terms of quality there's no competition between Genshin and Sonic.

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                                                                            [–]Flipperblack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                                                                            So true...

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                                                                              [–]HuffleWolf575 271 points272 points  (11 children)

                                                                              What is this? Is it just a cute way of saying players choice?

                                                                              [–]Celtic_Crown 120 points121 points  (0 children)

                                                                              Basically yes.

                                                                              [–]syanda 109 points110 points  (9 children)

                                                                              Popularity contest. Sonic really didn't stand a chance, Genshin is one of the most popular games in Asia.

                                                                              [–]curious_dead 75 points76 points  (7 children)

                                                                              Sonic stood a chance. The Sonic fandom mobilized, unlike the Elden Ring/God of War/Stray fandoms who didn't really seem to care, but (from what I gather) then they pissed on Genshin fans for no reason and well, it turns out China is a huge country and Genshin is super big there, so they kinda shot themselves in the proverbial foot.

                                                                              [–]StagnantSweater21 9 points10 points  (1 child)

                                                                              Stray probably shouldn’t have been up there for anything besides “hey this is cute”

                                                                              I don’t think there IS a Stray community, just people who like it lol

                                                                              There really isn’t much to talk about with the game

                                                                              [–]curious_dead 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                                                              Yes, the "Stray fandom" part of my comment was mostly in jest. I doubt there are very active Stray communities.

                                                                              [–]syanda 22 points23 points  (0 children)

                                                                              Actually, people were circulating "vote for Genshin" stuff from the first round of the preliminary voting. By that point, it was already fairly clear Genshin stood a strong chance of winning.

                                                                              What happened was that when the final votes opened, when it hit morning in Asia, Genshin got a spike of votes when the Asians woke up. This led to some sonic fans on twitter claiming that the Chinese were botting, and also a retweeted piece about how MiHoYo was bribing their playerbase to win the award. Those went absolutely viral through the Genshin community and the large, national SEA-based Facebook communities and CN users who found the translated tweets on their boards just went overdrive on voting out of spite. On the flipside, there were also a bunch of people who got galvanised to vote sonic just so genshin wouldn't win, but that number was a lot lower than the genshin fans motivated to vote.

                                                                              Pretty much the main difference is just that without some toxic sonic fans triggering the beast, Genshin's margin of victory would have just been slimmer

                                                                              [–]mlodydziad420 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                                                                              Genshin comunity is still bigger than these 4 combined.

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                                                                                  [–]Pokefreaker-san 85 points86 points  (1 child)

                                                                                  sort by controversy

                                                                                  [–]f18effect 13 points14 points  (0 children)

                                                                                  Its a flusterfuck rn

                                                                                  genshin good -60 downvotes

                                                                                  genshin bad -60 downvotes

                                                                                  [–]BertoLaDK 208 points209 points  (6 children)

                                                                                  I'm still annoyed the show was in the middle of the night on a weekday.

                                                                                  edit: emphasis on a weekday, wouldn't have been a problem if it wasn't a night before work.

                                                                                  [–]send-me-picklesPlayStation 38 points39 points  (0 children)

                                                                                  It started at 1:30am for me. Ended at 5am.

                                                                                  [–]Tobix55 18 points19 points  (1 child)

                                                                                  It was peak time for some region

                                                                                  [–]BertoLaDK 24 points25 points  (0 children)

                                                                                  Yes. But they could have done it Friday or Saturday instead.

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                                                                                    [–]SnixPlaysAlot 350 points351 points  (17 children)

                                                                                    They found all the bot votes 🤣

                                                                                    [–]Breaker-of-circles 186 points187 points  (16 children)

                                                                                    Objectively speaking, Sonic Frontiers is behind every department compared to the other nominees. I don't know what people were expecting.

                                                                                    Then they cite issues like GI being an old game. Yeah? Well Minecraft and Fortnite are in this too. LMAO!

                                                                                    [–]Devilmay1233[S] 61 points62 points  (1 child)

                                                                                    Apex legends, destiny, ff14 were all in the list for round 1.

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                                                                                      [–][deleted] 498 points499 points  (27 children)

                                                                                      The subreddit mods are going into full 1984 mode. They are pissed.

                                                                                      Also after we removed the bots…if I remember correctly that was what the fan base accused genshin of doing…oh boy did that not age well.

                                                                                      I follow their subreddit for shits and giggles…some of the strangest and manic people on the net I swear.

                                                                                      [–]Scoobie101 253 points254 points  (4 children)

                                                                                      The Sonic subreddit started locking and banning all threads about TGA/the players voice vote shortly after the drama started.

                                                                                      I think they’re really just trying to stay out of it tbh.

                                                                                      [–][deleted] 118 points119 points  (0 children)

                                                                                      Don’t blame em honestly.

                                                                                      [–]picklesTommyPickles 74 points75 points  (0 children)

                                                                                      As a genshin player, don't blame them. Genshin mods restricted the number of times we could post about the awards.

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                                                                                        [–]MI_3ANTROP 8 points9 points  (9 children)

                                                                                        What sub are u talking about?? I kinda wanna see it lmao

                                                                                        [–][deleted] 37 points38 points  (8 children)

                                                                                        It’s the one with the lgbt flag. Nobody is posting shit about the awards because I suspect the mods are preventing them.

                                                                                        I’ve only seen one post that’s locked with 0 comments from a genshin player.

                                                                                        I tried posting something with the discussion tag and it was immediately removed for “low effort content” which is bs…

                                                                                        [–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (7 children)

                                                                                        Honestly it’s the most unhinged group of people I’ve observed over the past month or so.

                                                                                        Which isn’t saying much since we are talking about the sonic fandom.

                                                                                        The same fandom which gave birth to Chris Chan of all horrid eldritch abominations.

                                                                                        [–]doctorcrimson 11 points12 points  (1 child)

                                                                                        Ah yes, the subreddit. What subreddit? Oh you know, the one, with the things at the place? That one.

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                                                                                          [–]PhasmicPlays 256 points257 points  (1 child)

                                                                                          GLORY TO THE SALT GOD

                                                                                          [–]birdsofgravity 94 points95 points  (2 children)

                                                                                          Bill Clinton won the best Rabbi award too

                                                                                          [–]TheGamer098 16 points17 points  (0 children)

                                                                                          Bill Clinton boss battle in Elden Ring as DLC when

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                                                                                            [–]PhantomXxZ 172 points173 points  (3 children)

                                                                                            FOR HAVRIA

                                                                                            [–]Breaker-of-circles 92 points93 points  (0 children)

                                                                                            SALT FOR THE SALT GOD

                                                                                            [–]naoki7794 58 points59 points  (0 children)

                                                                                            FOR HAVRIA, THE GODESS OF SALT.

                                                                                            [–]Nomicakes 14 points15 points  (0 children)

                                                                                            In case people are confused: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Havria

                                                                                            Literally the God of Salt in Genshin.

                                                                                            [–]Excellent_Routine589 338 points339 points  (51 children)

                                                                                            As someone with zero dogs in this fight and a GoW/ER enjoyer, oh how Sonic fans toxicity backfired!

                                                                                            If it wasn't memed to death, woulda been cool to see Stray win though

                                                                                            [–]Devilmay1233[S] 178 points179 points  (3 children)

                                                                                            Most hilarious thing before announcing the winner Geoff said after removing bots the winner is genshin lmao.

                                                                                            [–][deleted] 92 points93 points  (0 children)

                                                                                            I voted GOWR for round 1 and then Genshin round 2/3 cause how annoying it was to see posts/tweets about how "we must stop genshit from winning" and then seeing some being racist. Hopefully they learn not to be idiots on social media next time (if there is one)

                                                                                            [–]Qverlord37 154 points155 points  (4 children)

                                                                                            as a Genshin fan, we were more occupied with the new expansion. they added a new tcg mini game system in the game and it's pretty fun; I haven't even got started with the new story yet.

                                                                                            I only looked away when I saw the Sonic fan calling the kettle black and started to shit-talk us.

                                                                                            imagine having a history of being ostracized and labeled by the broader community and then pulling the same shit on other people.

                                                                                            at that point, I was like "I was gonna not even watch this show, but I ain't gonna let myself be talked down by a furry."

                                                                                            they probably could've won if they didn't piss off the chinese player base.

                                                                                            [–]Devilmay1233[S] 69 points70 points  (2 children)

                                                                                            Man tcg is so fun I didn't even start the new archon quest playing tcg all day. The game gets more deeper complex when u progress pvp is Hella fun and where u git Gud and realize how amazingly made this mode is.

                                                                                            [–]Zeroth_Dragon 16 points17 points  (1 child)

                                                                                            I promised myself even that I’m going to avoid capping Resin this patch… day 1 I already broke that commitment lmao

                                                                                            [–]Devilmay1233[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                                                                                            Lol

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                                                                                              [–]Flipperblack 15 points16 points  (0 children)

                                                                                              I voted Genshin but i would have been happy anyway to see Stray win lol

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                                                                                                [–]Sunfechi_ 52 points53 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                That was a field trip

                                                                                                [–]No_Log_5682 19 points20 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                I keep scrolling, and the further I scroll, the more it seems that we only get three categories in this comment section

                                                                                                Gi supporter

                                                                                                Sonic supporter

                                                                                                Racist

                                                                                                Bruh

                                                                                                [–]Relative-Hour-9359 60 points61 points  (5 children)

                                                                                                Stray??? For voice award!?

                                                                                                [–]mctayy 45 points46 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                Those meows were strong

                                                                                                [–]tweedyone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                She deserved all the awards. Lala is a god tier VA.

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                                                                                                  [–]Tryagainbatman 68 points69 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                  Elden Ring being on here is stupid. The player doesn’t even have a voice in that game.

                                                                                                  [–]mrmatrixpill 20 points21 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                  The glorious death AHHHHH

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                                                                                                    [–]PayYourPal 13 points14 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                    And I won no steam deck

                                                                                                    [–]Corn-Shonery 49 points50 points  (32 children)

                                                                                                    You could actually hear some people on the audience booing hah

                                                                                                    [–]Devilmay1233[S] 76 points77 points  (28 children)

                                                                                                    Probably salty sonic fans lol. I mean after all they worked so much hard to bring multiple communities, youtubers, botting and still didn't manage to defeat genshin. They underestimated how big genshin community is.

                                                                                                    [–]doctorcrimson 58 points59 points  (26 children)

                                                                                                    There are a very great many people opposed to genshin that do not fall under the banner of sonic fans or racists.

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                                                                                                        [–]Altekho 25 points26 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                        All of this most likely wouldn't happened if only a small portion of sonic fanbase just STFU and not being totally a dick. They had the higher ground, genshin fanbase don't give a shit about the award. But some assholes in sonic fanbase decided being radical for no reason to genshin community. Now the damage has been done, nothing but salt and disappointment. While I'm enjoying freemogems although it's kinda worth whatever.

                                                                                                        [–]wefler 26 points27 points  (3 children)

                                                                                                        I really think Sonic would've won it had their fans just shut the fuck up for a bit.

                                                                                                        [–]keksmuzh 19 points20 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                        Are we really that surprised? It’s a F2P game with more downloads than the rest combined.

                                                                                                        [–]Talvara 53 points54 points  (5 children)

                                                                                                        Genshin impact really isnt a bad game. the only concerning thing would be their buisness model. where if you're vulnerable to such things you can easily spend much more than reasonable.

                                                                                                        you can play the game for free no problem though I've spent like 6 euros on it an had a ton of fun and definitely got my moneys worth of entertainment. updates over the past year have also been significant. Graphics are amazing if you're into the Ghibli/anime aesthetic. exploration is well done and encouraged by scattering interesting sights and treasures all over. and while the combat mechanics might not be for everyone, they're not simplistic.

                                                                                                        and you can't beat the price of free to play (provided you're not suspectible to overspending on micro transactions)

                                                                                                        [–]Kardessa 11 points12 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                        It's honestly great. I buy the monthly card and that's pretty much it. Obviously that means that at some point I've paid more than I would for a fully released game but they keep updating the game so I'm paying $7 for consistent monthly content which is a good deal imo. Plus if I ever decide I don't want to I can just not buy the card sometimes but the game is still there with all of the updates

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                                                                                                          [–]Olivia_Lydia_Wilson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                          As a Genshin fan I am happy we won, but if people didn't bot for Sonic, it actually would have been pretty close. But IMO Genshin doesn't compare to Elden Ring or God Of War Ragnarok in the slightest. It's like a match to a candle. But alls well that ends well I suppose.

                                                                                                          [–]klaq 35 points36 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                          BAHAHAHAHA

                                                                                                          [–]ChutneyChutney 108 points109 points  (50 children)

                                                                                                          Is there a criteria for games being allowed in the categories? Genshin didn't even come out this year. Where is my Ocarina of Time choice?

                                                                                                          [–][deleted] 196 points197 points  (38 children)

                                                                                                          In the first round of players choice there where other games that came out years ago like minecraft , apex ,destiny 2 , ffxiv ,fortnite etc. players choice is only about popularity nothing more and wether someone likes it or not you cant deny that genshin is popular.

                                                                                                          [–]ChutneyChutney 73 points74 points  (28 children)

                                                                                                          No that's cool. Was a legit question! Played Genshin a bit before, it was a lot of fun.

                                                                                                          [–][deleted] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                          all good enjoy the rest of the show.

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                                                                                                            [–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (7 children)

                                                                                                            SO the same game can just win Player's voice over and over again year after year if it stays popular?

                                                                                                            [–]Pokefreaker-san 54 points55 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                            technically yes.

                                                                                                            [–]jenioeoeoe 40 points41 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                            As long as it is continuously updated, sure. And we know Genshin will have a major expansion again next year

                                                                                                            [–]Extraordinary_DREB 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                            3 more years and possibly more lol

                                                                                                            [–]naoki7794 10 points11 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                            Technically yes, but as you can see fortnite and minecraft also in the list, and those are a lot more popular than Elden Ring, Stray or Sonic, but they didn't, because recency bias and not that many people care about The Game awards. And to be honest, Genshin was also not really care about the awards, most player wasn't even know about it and are looking forward to the new update. Sonic had a very real chance of winning if they didn't mock Genshin and wake the tiger up.

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                                                                                                                [–]BoofedContam 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                Probably the yearly DLC areas?

                                                                                                                [–]doctorcrimson 7 points8 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                                As long as the game receives updates then it can qualify.

                                                                                                                [–]JohnnyJayce 13 points14 points  (1 child)

                                                                                                                Basically just a popularity contest.

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                                                                                                                  [–]maxsohigh00 4 points5 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                                  Am I the only one who feels like Sifu got snubbed last night?

                                                                                                                  [–]little_timmylol 44 points45 points  (5 children)

                                                                                                                  Never even heard of sonic frontiers. regardless of any sort of drama, there's no way genshin would lose in a popularity vote.

                                                                                                                  [–]Devilmay1233[S] 29 points30 points  (3 children)

                                                                                                                  Tell that to sonic fans. Apparently they think genshin fans aint huge like them.

                                                                                                                  [–]i_dont_care_1943 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                  Yeah it's only one of the most popular games in the country with the highest population!

                                                                                                                  Seriously, Sonic fans really underestimated Genshin.

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                                                                                                                      [–]Flipperblack 73 points74 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                      Sonic toxic and racist fans triggered the wrong fanbase(especially Asian Genshin fans),karma. Anyway the game is good and fun,it not deserve all this hate honestly...i voted because i like the game and because Sumeru is amazing,i appreciate the 800 primogems(gift for TGA nominations,not for player voice) but i didn't voted for that.

                                                                                                                      [–]Loojaw 11 points12 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                                      Did Stray win anything?

                                                                                                                      [–]Bella_dlc 42 points43 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                      Best indie iirc

                                                                                                                      [–]Virginityiscool12 18 points19 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                      Best debutant indie game and best independent game

                                                                                                                      [–]VirtualContact 15 points16 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                      As much as I love playing the Sonic games as a child I was actually expecting GOWR to win tbh. Sonic Frontiers feels (to me at least) nostalgic from the characters to the open world but that is just it, nostalgic. The story to me was meh. Also as an old sonic fan, I'm sorry that you have to deal with the toxic side of the community.

                                                                                                                      Sidenote: While I do enjoy the Sonic Movies, Arcane and Edgerunners is just a whole other level of storytelling and visuals. I will be very surprised if they win.

                                                                                                                      [–]Bsause7 26 points27 points  (18 children)

                                                                                                                      Does this mean we can finally drop this topic and move on with our lives? Even as someone who wanted Sonic to win watching all of this toxicity hurt.

                                                                                                                      [–]nippeliito 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                                                                                                                      As a Sonic fan. Agreed

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                                                                                                                        [–]FeatherIceIce 33 points34 points  (3 children)

                                                                                                                        Sonic fans in shambles

                                                                                                                        [–]TheBoyNxv 6 points7 points  (2 children)

                                                                                                                        More like annoyed at how us normal Sonic fans are being lumped with the weirdos. Fans like me just wanted to see Sonic win something, we don’t have anything against the Genshin fans.

                                                                                                                        [–]NoNick1337 16 points17 points  (4 children)

                                                                                                                        So whoever has a larger player base wins? What a great category.

                                                                                                                        [–]Jimmycartel 135 points136 points  (10 children)

                                                                                                                        Genshin is a great game. Congrats

                                                                                                                        [–]TheBoyNxv 8 points9 points  (3 children)

                                                                                                                        Man fuck these weirdo Sonic fans making the rest of us look bad. I just wanted to see the little blue homie win for once but seeing those racist remarks towards Chinese people genuinely pissed me off. Now us normal Sonic fans have to get lumped with these toxic assholes and get treated as a joke.

                                                                                                                        [–]Tumblrrito 41 points42 points  (28 children)

                                                                                                                        Sonic Frontiers was so half-assed that I’m glad it lost. If Sega wants an award, they should start pumping out actual masterpieces instead of technically incompetent games with cringe-tier writing.

                                                                                                                        [–]TweedygibbionPC 4 points5 points  (6 children)

                                                                                                                        I feel like it’s weird that genshin won out of all of them but it’s also a free to play game on both pc and mobile so still not surprising

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