Steam awards are stupid.

Baffled that the majority of Steam users felt it necessary to vote in so many completely irrelevant (AAA) games - would've thought the corporate circle-jerk that is "the real" game awards should've been enough; i console myself in the face of such terrible nominees in all categories (but not to say i disagree with all of them) by assuming that the games which were nominated were because people thought that might have discounted the games during the sale a bit more what a tortured sentence. Still, SMFH. But that's democracy. And there's that phrase referencing the masses' need for a bath, a-HA a-HAHA huhhhhh

No matter what games were nominated, there would be outcries that they're not right.
It's human nature.

Steam awards are the best!

Well it's still better than last year clicker game, they ruin my mouse :(

I don't care all that much to be honest, but many people might have just nominated whatver came up on their store page to get that "Award nomination committee" badge (I know I'm guilty of that with the "Whoa Dude" category... please don't hate me lol).

I was expecting more indie games as nominees tbh.

some are related, but i bet people do like you say, vote for their favorite games.

best 3d game! *undertale*

Yeah, people just wanted to nominate their favorite games, instead of finding suitable candidates for the category.

+1
They could have called it game of the year awards and make the witcher 3 blood and wine dlc win even though its a DLC'
or make Overwatch GOTY because its such a innovative and good game.

The first part (nominating games) may have had some reasons to exist: people could nominate games for a category, and then the 5 best ones got to voting. That should have ended there.
Voting is the stupid part: most people do NOT know all the 5 nominees, so they just vote on the game they know from the list. And the other stupid part of voting is the card: some people vote only for the card. (I did so for one category as well...beat me for that :) )

I miss the achievement thing with the coal... I know people cheated, but it got me to try and play games I otherwise wouldn't play. That was years ago though...

this is what you let people vote his favourite game no matter what

I expect nothing and I'm still disappoint...

i agree from one point if you wanna organise awards you cant have all the categories made by poeples choise, usually everytime in people choises awards unless you voted for that you feel frustrated with other peoples choise , its in human nature you feel bad cause you think you made the wrong choise. From the other point i see gamers not feeling entirelly happy with serius events and awards . Maybe if it becomes a thing with steam every winter sale naxt year more thought will get into it and it will be better

A handful of the games do actually match the categories, but yeah... most of them don't. Also, the community chosen categories are just about as awful as the official ones. I have a feeling Valve combined related suggestions and gave the categories their names... because I find it hard to believe that enough people actually suggested "Boom Boom".

Initially, I thought it was an interesting idea... then I remembered the kinds of people that make up the Steam community, and I just couldn't see the event going well. And, I was right. I can only imagine the number of trollish and Half-Life 3 related categories they received. I seriously hope they don't do the Steam awards again, just like that damn Summer clicker monster game thing, and pretty much every other community event Valve have done. Why can't they just go back to doing the daily flash deals? Ugh. ):

I chose Bioshock for the "Whoa Dude" when the awards were first announced a while back. I am surprised (or maybe not really) that it didn't make the final cut.

lol

I disagree that "most of the games" don't match the categories (aside from the first 2 which are dubitable).
Maybe you need to read the descriptions.

It is hard to vote for a game one does not own or has not played. That's why a game sold 5.000.000 times will get more votes, while a medicore successfull indie game with only 250.000 unites sold will not even make it on the list. So yes, the most popular games have better chances to win.