The Game Awards 2022 is going to be held tomorrow at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and even though we are just mere hours away the drama made its presence way before we thought.
As you already know, TGA holds several categories, 32 to be precise, among them is the Players' Voice award where the winner as the name suggests is decided by the player’s vote, this year the nominees are Elden Ring,
Genshin Impact, Stray, God of War: Ragnarök and Sonic Frontiers; well, as the title of this article says, fans of two of them are beefing over the award.
According to the Genshin Impact subreddit, in a now-deleted post which gather over 3k upvotes, Sonic fans were using bots to generate over a thousand votes in minutes, crashing the site and clearly cheating the system.
“Sonic fans use bots in TGA vote, get tens of thousands of votes in minutes, and stop quickly. Now the site is crashing.”
However, there was no real evidence of the bot use causing a series of accusations between both fandoms. The Genshin Impact side claimed that Sonic could not gather a such number of votes as their score on Metacritic is lower than any other of the nominees, on the other hand not only Sonic fans but other players have claimed that Genshin's 2020 release date put them “way off” the lead… technically cheating.
Also, Twitter user @JazmurPls accused the poll to be rigged as the only working option was Genshin Impact (Thanks Eurogamer)
@geoffkeighley @thegameawards can we please get someone to address how busted this is? pic.twitter.com/gmRfnDOobf
— jsn (@JazmurPls) December 6, 2022
We will not be sure until the real winner is announced, so, remember to tune in The Game Awards tomorrow at 7:30p ET / 4:30p PT / 12:30a GMT here and remember to stay tuned on Level Up for the full event coverage.
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