He wanted to make a big glitzy award show like the Oscars because he (and many other people in games media) desperately want gaming to be seen as relevant or artistic or mainstream or whatever and in order to make a big glitzy award show he needed a ton of money so he just made the show one big series of ads.
The Game Developer’s Choice Awards have been going since 2000. While not all of their choices are agreed on, they are a group of game developers in the industry who answer to no advertisers. So we already have an Oscars and the Doritto king is not part of it.
He wanted to make a big glitzy award show like the Oscars because he (and many other people in games media) desperately want gaming to be seen as relevant or artistic or mainstream or whatever and in order to make a big glitzy award show he needed a ton of money so he just made the show one big series of ads.
The Game Developer’s Choice Awards have been going since 2000. While not all of their choices are agreed on, they are a group of game developers in the industry who answer to no advertisers. So we already have an Oscars and the Doritto king is not part of it.