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Genshin Impact Wins the Players' Voice Award from TGA 2022
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"after taking out all the bot votes"
LMFAOOOOOOOO
Honestly props to them for having the balls to say it. I didn't super care who won but I was really curious if they would even mention the situation since they were so quiet.
Genshin’s competition was never in player choice, neither was any other nominee in player choice besides sonic. But sonic fans had to go ape shit on Genshin and poke the hornet nest
Genshin had no steak in any of the nominations, it was released 2020, most of the playerbase just did not care to vote. if not for sonic being a sore winner, they probably wouldve won
tbh true. if the small portion of the genshin community that votes brings us a dub and some gems, great. if not, no biggie.
but sonic really had to go and rally the non-voting base of genshin lmao.
Steak
Any link to this? I want see this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adSOwjGxWOE
heres it winning
That’s actually hilarious, amazing that they called it out
gave me a good chuckle.
kudos to them imo
Coming from r/all, what's the context on the bot votes?
at least he didn't mention WHOSE bots was that... (but we all know who... lol...)
Man i feel sorry for the people who booed at the end
tbh, I don't quite get being angry at a people's choice award. It really just shows what game is more popular, which makes me wonder if DFO would be a winner...
https://www.twitch.tv/thegameawards
That was fast. Thanks
lol i literally joined as they announced Elden Ring GoTY thanks
Congratulations to elden ring for winning GOTY and GOD of war ragnarok for winning the most awards
The revival of Havria is REAL!!
Can we get much higher
I cackled. Like, full-on evil witch cackle. ...Because that's what my laugh sounds like.
If the Sonic fans hadn't gone toxic-mode, they may have won legitimately. If they had won legitimately (and hadn't gone toxic-mode), I wouldn't have minded beyond perhaps two seconds of mild disappointment. But they really screwed the pooch by attacking Genshin, which united even the ones who don't care about the awards against them, and then made it even worse by mass-botting.
I feel bad for the ones who didn't participate in the mud-slinging or cheating, but not at all for the ones who did.
What’s funny is that them botting and being toxic made huge news in China (I saw it on bilibili trending #2 and #3 at the same time) which most likely brought in huge amount of Chinese votes.
yup. this is me. didn't care, but no one shit talks genshin except us.
I like your energy bro, I wish you win all your 50/50 for eternity. 🤣🤣
imagine them actually wanting Tighnari, and now being cursed forever
It's like you and your best buddy, nobody can talk shit about them except you
"Too gay to function? That's only OK when I say it!"
me too... this is the first and only time i voted for ANY game awards for ANY game...
The main problem is they messed with the Chinese players, china also being a good chunk of the players worldwide they usually wouldn't even care about the awards;
But what the hedgehog soldiers didn't realized is that,I f you grab the bull by the ball; you gonna feel what's coming
THE ARROGATION OF SONIC FANS ENDS NOW!
They would've won if they didn't just talk shit for a little bit longer. No one would've went out and rallied people to vote. I wouldn't have but fuck arrogance, you deserve to lose especially after botting so hard.
I don’t give a fuck about players choice and even I spite voted against Sanic lol
Same. First and probably only time voting for an award show.
Not just "may". They would easily won it, considering that they were up around 10-12% before the mayhem started.
The only absolute I deal in is that I never deal in absolutes. (Drives everyone in my life up the wall, including me, lol.)
...But yeah, you're right, they would have won. IIRC they won the previous rounds too, right?
Yep. They won round 1 and 2 with a good margin (around 10% IIRC) so many were assuming they'll win round 3 as well. And then IT happened, and then the rest is history.
Obi-Wan has taught you well.
Spite is one hell of a thing man, I couldn’t be bothered hitting vote before, but after I heard about the salt coming from the sonic commute, I had to. The content was too good.
yep honestly I didn't know players invoice was a thong before that. glad I participated to defend ourselves against the hate and to show that we are united
Ikr. I wouldn't have voted and told my friends about this whole thing if it weren't for those toxic sonic fans. It wasn't even for the primos at that point but for the laughs. Then the whole sonic got "300 votes in under a min" thing happened, so I told more friends about it and voted for GI. Tbh, I would have voted for stray if it wasn't for all this drama.
Legitimately I would not have even known about the vote if those Sonic fans hadn't stirred up drama all over the internet lol.
I was on the phone with my sonic fan friend and we had a good laugh about it! Just the loud toxic people as usual are the ones we most see so eh not too many of those freaks (I hope anyway)! But ayyyyy gimmmeee my 800 primos daddy Geoff
i was but one vote, but i was exactly that. i didn't even know about the awards. but ended up casting a vote just because of all that was happening lol. i wasn't even following closely, but I am rather pleased with the results. lol
Lmao sonic frontiers fans were legitimately botting xD
Big PP move
The best part of the entire show. I couldn't stop laughing. Glory to Havria!
Geoff even made sure to note, "once we took out all the bot votes" lmao you can't make this shit up
"all" is very closely there. They just pulled out all bites that looked like mass bot votes.
There certantly are real player votes in there and there are bots that weren't filtered.
Glory to the salt god
and justice was also served to appease the hydro archon
Focalors is pleased.
Ohonhonhonhonhon
Glory to Havria
Havria playable when
Playable? We got here ingame already bruh. She's salt.
Sonic fans probably stole the artifacts we threw into the ocean in Zhongli’s story quest and used them to create infinite salt
Now I’m just imagining osial’s kids eating super salty meals
Truly the best god
Praise Havria!
She truly was a gentle god.
SALT FOR THE SALT THRONE
The comments I saw when Genshin won on Twitter disgusted me to the core. Thank god Sonic didn't win (Yeah, not "Thank god Genshin wins", but thank god Sonic DIDNT)
google classroom sweats nervously
Sonic is the one who lost so I guess Google Classroom is relieved.
Inb4 sonic fans start review bombing Google Chrome
Enlighten me. What did genshin fans do to google classroom? I wasn't playing at that time.
Review bombed it with 1 star reviews because people were upset about the first anniversary rewards I believe
Bruh he really said get rid of the bots… I’m f**king dead.
Remember to be the better people and not harass the Sonic fans about it though.
I won't harrass them. I may silently head to one of their subs and watch them devolve into madness, but I won't say a word, promise.
Good luck, they're removing all posts related to the awards 😂
Can't accept it lols had to pretend it never happened
To be fair to their mods, they decided to remove all the posts related to it a on Tuesday if memory serves.
Not really, it just became a shitshow that they stopped mentioning it completely because of the toxicity it caused. It happened long before Genshin won.
Nah they did it I think two days ago
Those bastards are posting sonic making out with genshin characters like lumine and amber
There's a great new art of Lumine sodomizing Sonic on danbooru if you want to clap back.
How… how do you know this??
tf
I won't harras them back ..but if they start first I will give praise to Havria in the reply every time.
Well we can take a page out of the Mormon book and introduce them to the salt god, Havria.
Holy shit that was entertaining, specially after mentioning the bot counts LOL.
See y’all again this time next year.
I'm glad they commented on the bot votes, we won!
It’s a shame my favourite game Jenshin impact didn’t win
I see you too share the memories.
But why does osmanthus wine taste different than I remember...
Your taste buds have eroded
Right?(╥﹏╥)
Gonna be so much salt over this
all they had to do was stfu and not be racist, yet they chose to trigger the Chinese community over night lol.
Last time I checked, not many Chinese players were triggered and even after Genshin took the win many Chinese game outlet are still saying Genshin used bots and brided players.
By that I'm trying to say is that you guys, are the real hero.
Well not sure where you checked but they did call for people to vote on NGA, should note all genshin players voting are heroes.
That's Tencent machinery for you. Those gaming outlets may have Tencent funds in them. And Mr. Penguin doesn't like Genshin much
IGN CN is ran by Tencent, just saying.
Yes, the CN branch of that IGN.
They're just insanely bitter that they don't get a cut.
one word: tencent
That’s the thing about Chinese media in regards to Genshin. Half of those platforms are under Tencent so you gotta check the source carefully
The Bilibili community are memeing hard on the results lmao
jokes comparing Sonic Frontiers fans to Scaramouche when Nahida took the Electro Gnosis
calling this the "Best Comedy Award"
comparing this to the story of Sal Terrae, where the followers of the Lord of Salt believed that the Lord of Geo killed their god when she was actually murdered by her own people
Bilibili’s community needs to calm the fuck down. Awesome ass animations AND based opinions?
This announcer is a fucking troll and I love it.
"once we take out all the bot votes"
Sonic fans confirmed robots.
The irony, they are supposed to destroy dr eggman robot
It was said that you would destroy the bots, not join them!
he didn't have to do it to them like that but damn its good
i feel embarrassed for them honestly. they really got called out like that 😭
There is enough salt for everyone's popcorns tonight.
It’s was Dr Robotnik !
Turns out his 70 alternative accounts didn't help.
Can someone explain to me how the fuck a marvel game won best mobile game.
A Marvel CARD game…
Marvel big. Many fan, young and old. Make good voterbase.
It's a very good game by a respected CCG developer and it has the Marvel IP.
What's to understand?
Apparently it's decent.
As i follow devs / engineerings (as I am one myself)
the lead dev of Hearthstone is behind it. Which makes a whole lot of sense imo, as you take out Blizzard's toxic culture.
Meanwhile people who are both Sonic & Genshin Fans, "I'm playing both sides, so I always come out on top."
Feels vindicating for him to add in that "After we took out all the bot votes" bit, especially since so many people were running with the idea that genshin fans alone were doing botting. Some people are still saying shit like "Genshin literally bribed their playerbase" though which is dumb but whatever.
Funny thing is, since the only category Genshin won in is Player's Choice, we may not get primogems, since Hoyoverse generally avoids giving anything regarding poll stuff.
Edit: Aaaaaaand we really got it. Nice, 5 pulls to save
Yeah I have a feeling we won't get primos from this. Which is fine by me personally, freemogems would be nice but that's not really why I was voting to begin with
Edit: Hey, 800 gems. Nice.
I am just waiting for possible free Yao Yao come new years. To keep in the tradition of free Yun Jin from last year.
I don’t think they will be here at New Years. I think she is gonna be on Alhaithem banner that starts around the 18 perhaps.
Although they could give her away later! Like they did with Dori.
Although I don’t expect it it would be nice if we got some for the nomination in mobile and ongoing
But if we don’t it is what it is~
I voted to please Havria
lol sonic players in my post came to say that we were using bot to win, I wanted to see their faces now hahaha
not a genshin fan; never played the game before. however, i do think it's hilarious that sonic fans squandered their one nomination (and probably the only one they'll get for years) because they couldn't help but single out this game and pissed off the community
Especially since the only reason it got nominated was because it seemed SO GOOD because it was a 5/10 instead of the 2/10 shit that Sega has been pumping out for a decade.
A comment in skill up's review worded it perfectly. "To anyone else, its a 7/10 at best. But because Sonic fans have been fed shit for so long, its like finding a diamond in a pile of shit, so they see it as a masterpiece." Sonic fans deserve better.
To think, All sonic fans had to do was not antagonize the Genshin community and they would have had this in the bag.
They really shot themselves on the foot ngl. Weird how they saw the sheer size of genshin playerbase and thought “they must be using bots” then proceed to be absolute asshats on socmeds. Basing on the 1st 2 rounds, they would’ve gotten the award if they kept their mouths shut tightly.
Sonic fans aren’t exactly silent, unless they’re masturbating to sonic feet
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thanks to them, we got a nice award and shit tons of salt for Christmas!
For havria as well
Good ol Streisand Effect
And to think this all started because they immediately called "bots" when there was a spike in votes for genshin... They did not even entertain the idea that it must've been because of different timezones and the people in asia just started voting 😭
I hope Tectone is miserable rn ❤️
He mocked Genshin for winning
same i hope his hair never grows back <3
Tectone doesnt care, he is purposefully making troll comments so people can give him attention and views on his social media and make him more money.
He will leave once he can find something that gives him more money then Genshin like he left Arknights for the same reason.
Jesus, what a parasite
Isn't Tectone a huge Genshin simp? Did he flee the genshin community too after they figured out he was no good?
He said this a couple days ago. The guy is only relevant bc of genshin yet shits on it 24/7. He’s one of the biggest assholes in the streaming/gaming community. I literally could not care less about getting free rewards or whatever. I’m just glad genshin won so he can seethe and cope.
He's such an asshole, but especially with that snarky little "congrats on your 5 free primogems, guys..." tweet he made after the winners were announced.
What?
He rates sonic frontiers as higher than elden ring
He thinks Genshin Impact could win Game of The Year, a category it's not even nominated for
He sucked long before he hated on genshin. Some of his criticisms are valid he just goes about it in the wrong way
He still uses it for money but all the content is just hating on it like he wants to branch out but the best monetization comes from it so he can’t. “I hate genshin but I’ll use genshin”
Tectone is an obnoxious manchild
He’s one of the most toxic Genshin content creators rn.
He’s clearly miserable playing it, but he can’t leave because it’s his biggest money maker.
I wish he would.
He's the biggest pos in the Genshin community. He so ungrateful of all the support this community has given him. So many content creators barely scratch the surface, but this clown is so popular.
"Once we took out all the bot votes"...
I am having the Cage Laugh on my face...
PRAISE HAVRIA WE HAVE DONE IT BOYS
WE DID IT
Here is the clip: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxAmqf4oiqan6BBzy3POPmaOv0Wd2uFT0O
GenshinImpact won 2023 "Players Voice" award after the bot votes from other game is removed. #TheGameAwards
The funniest thing that came out of this war was people shipping Sonic x Traveler in the middle
i walked past my mom while she was on twitter and watched her scroll past fanart of sonic and lumine kissing. it was surreal
Went on Twitter after the award was announced and saw somebody saying they wanted to curb stomp genshin players because of this win ! Anyways congrats to genshin absolutely deserved
Threatening physical violence after losing? So who’s the toxic fanbase now ayy?
trust twitter to be a 24/7 shithole
I was watching Tectone react and it’s so embarassing how badly he wants to fit in with mainstream that he’s mocking Genshin, the game that made him
That man needs to move on from Genshin already and play something else
Don't give him any attention. I used to give him the benefit of the doubt but after what he said, I'm over giving him any.
step 1: stop watching him
why even give him the view though
Tectone is garbage. Even before Genshin, he was so hated by the Arknights community he quitted. I have a few friends who play Arknights but not Genshin, who still hate him with a passion to this day.
Let him scream into his echo chamber
that's why he's called kektone and shetone around these parts.
Tectone is an example of why Asmongold and his OTK org is garbage.
How did he react? Did he lose his mind?
Bro stop watching kektone and Mtrashed they are the worst people to represent genshin.
what makes the win all the more better is the fact that so many people on the blue bird were trying to rally other fandoms up to vote, even YouTubers. It felt so BEAUTIFULLY Satisfying. Fuck the primos, that’s the type of pleasure and self satisfaction that gives me the will to live.
As a Sonic Fan it hurt, but GG.
Just know youre part of the better side of your community. GGs man
the genshin IMPACT
"I'm so proud of this community"
Sonic fan back again, the hurt of the L aside, hey gg guys honestly. Well earned award. Just again, please don't flame those of us fans that simply voted for our fav game same as yall, and I apologize in advance for any toxic jerks that try and start anything. Yall earned this.
thank you for being not toxic. <3 y’all are great. :D
They called out Sonic fans and their botters!
People still getting mad that people used bots to vote after He clearly said they removed the bot votes is the funniest thing ever.
Also I think Frontiers was a good game looking forward to the new content.
Kind of funny how salty some people are over this. It’s not even the game of the year awards and genshin has more dedicated players than all these games. Mihoyo didn’t promise primos to anyone either so it’s just player assumption’s, not bribery
Wow whatever happened to Jenshin Impact from last year? Really fell off a cliff and never heard from again.
stayed up until 5 am but worth
At least one. Because of us. The rest felt like lobby to me. Did not you feel like lobby made the other games win?
Imagine accusing genshin for botting then got called out in front of millions of people : ]
I want to say, because it's important.
We DIDN'T voted for the primos. You just have to look all the comments below to understand that we wanted to defend our community. And that we are tired to be hated for just a game. It was all retaliation.
I'm sure this will comes as an excuse again, but a lot of the votes were motivated because of sheer anger against the treatment we get. People needs to understand that primos had nothing to do with it.
But yeah MHY must be quite happy of those circumstances. But I'm not gonna blame them, and honestly Sumeru is very good.
True for me and my friends. For me, even if they trash talk about the game, i wouldn’t budge, i would understand in a way since i have complaints about the game too, but nevertheless still appreciate its many good qualities. What drew the line were the racist comments and pedo accusation comments which did get around here even among those who are not active in social media. So yes, i voted for retaliation. We voted for retaliation.
Congrats yall❤ let's keep it non toxic
Sonic fans would've won if they didn't shit-talk the game.
Exactly this! Genshin fans honestly didn't care. They were winning the vote and got sympathy from other communities. But they started making fanarts of Sonic beating on Paimon and Lumine and that triggered the fandom.
man, I was more preoccupied with the new TCG mini game, it was only after seeing the usual pedo shit talk that got me like "you know what, I ain't gonna take that from a furry, especially not a sonic furry. Time to make some little kid cry."
好耶(≧∇≦)/！Great(≧∇≦)/!
I voted for elden ring, but I'm glad Genshin won player's voice
On behalf of the Sonic community, congrats on the W. I just wish this whole situation could’ve been handled in more civil way. Hopefully we all can make amends going forward now that this is all over.
I think it's hilarious that he clearly wanted to laugh. Thanks for this meme of an experience, Geoff.
They kinda forgot, that Genshin is rather international too. It's not just chinese playing the game. It's no surprise Genshin Impact won the award.
I FULLY believe that Genshin deserves the award. GOWR and Elden are fantastic games where you get bang for buck, but Genshin is a live service game that listens to its fans. Surveys matter, content is constantly updated, you don't have to spend money, rates for characters/cost for primos are relatively average for a Gacha game. We get quality updates like card games, new areas, fun new characters and constant events that give primos.
What more can you ask from a developer in terms of content output? What Hoyoverse does has to be respected.
The quote tweets on the award tweet on twt are so…this is why they lost like this toxic mess from other fandoms is why genshin even voted at all. It’s horrible there
As a Sonic fan that wished Sonic Frontiers to win,congragulations on winning players voice!
And honestly,our fanbase probably pissed you guys off with that one meme first,so i apologize for the fanbases behavior,and i hope that we can have peace at last.
Unfortunately I think for about a week it’ll be chaos but after that everyone will forget and calm down. Hopefully it’s just forgotten with time and once people stop talking about it (on both sides I mean! Today will be full of toxicity everywhere 😞)
Hope you guys get good games in the future too like SF! I haven’t played any since sonic adventure 2 but I used to love them so much
Yeah its gonna be chaotic this week💀💀
and yeah,i hope both fandoms can calm down as soon as possible and glad to meet someone that wishs peace on both sides!
I am honestly ok with this since genshin told a message
You do not provoke a hornet’s nest, especially a nest with millions and millions of players.
Why did Sonic fanbase even provoke them in the first place. Why did they just decide to speak so horribly towards genshin.
I never played the sonic game but it looks nice (once played sonic games before)
But seriously, why sonic fanbase, by the time you shot thst bullet, your chances of winning just went down bad
Hope they learned from this to not mess with someone they cannot beat yet
Now that their bot accusations were proven false, they've settled on calling us pedos lol. Sore losers.
It’s so weird because although there are people like that in the community it’s such a small percentage (even a small percentage of a lot of players is still a lot of players) that it doesn’t even make sense, plus there aren’t that many kid characters so I really don’t see why that’s the best insult they could find.