Originally Posted by Crimsomrider
When in doubt, No Man's Sky. The most beautiful redemption story in gaming history and it's wonderfully addicting with a lot of charm grin

This year though I was leaning into giving it to CDPR because Cyberpunk just like BG3 is one of my favorite games of all time and CDPR is really doing its best to perfect the game, but ultimately gave it to BG3 because;

  • Community is nice and friendly (here on the forums at least)
  • Fixing the bugs and in such a capacity each month is an admirable feat
  • The game is Absolute-ly fantastic even in its clearly rushed state which is being rectified
  • Larian's communication is utterly abysmal, but at least they are listening and implementing player feedback where & when they can
  • No predatory corporate BS microtransactions and such

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"Recognizing a game for outstanding community support, transparency and responsiveness, inclusive of social media activity and game updates/patches."

So based on the description of the category; Larian lacks on the communication front, but what they lack in communication they make up for in action.
...based on the description, at least half of the reasons why you gave this one to BG3 don't have anything to do with the award?

Community support is not about how nice the playerbase is, but how much support it gets from Larian. How good the game is has very little relevance to the community support. You admit the communication is abysmal. The game being released in a rushed state and being fixed is the bare minimum? I suppose you do not subscribe to 'launch broke, fix later' meta not being something that is good for the players? And it's especially ironic since Patch 4 legit made Act 3 near unplayable on PS5, so what action makes up for anything that deserves a reward over the other games?