Winning awards can definitely boost one's status, like a certain famous game producer who won multiple TGA yearly awards and is quite the sensation in the gaming industry.
But so what?
Are people making games to "show off"? Is showing off more important than game sales? In other words, does fame really bring tangible cash benefits?
On one side, there's the TGA annual award, and on the other, a "non-3A" game with million-level sales. Any rational game producer would likely choose the latter.
Game Detective interacts with most game companies, but without exception, most of them use the resources of the Game Detective website to promote their games.
But Tianba Game from Jiangning set a precedent: they approached Game Detective not for advertising, but just for votes!
What the fuck?
Not saying, man, what are you thinking? It's not that we look down on the TGA award's value; this award is hailed as the "Oscars of the gaming world," so it's very prestigious indeed.
