Just an honest question. I see this happen quite a bit. It's like declaring a boxer the winner before the match even starts. Clearly we don't get to have an opinion on the matter. Maybe someone can explain this to me.

please link the source showing it GOTY MMO

I heard it's won some stuff for most "anticipated" game of the year. and that the elder scrolls series, which doesn't count this entry as of yet, as a game series had won something along the line of best game series of all time.

Can't really claim it is the best of the year when it hasn't been released. Might be in the running for 2014, though it's up against tons of competition next year so I doubt it'll get it.

Voting isn't meaningful. Neither are popularity contests. '{Anything} of the Year' necessarily combines the worst aspects of both.

All inidcations point to ESO as being a strong candidate for GOTY, but it has NOT been named GOTY yet . . .

Actually, I think it will be a close contest between ESO and Witcher 3

MMOs always win "most anticipated" game and things like that, mostly I think because they have such huge development scopes and ambitions. Everyone loves the concept of MMOs: a gigantic persistent world where players can carry out their fantasy of "living" in another universe, where you are the hero. No other game genre can top that, in principle. The problem is, no one factors in the very low chance, statistically, that an MMO developer will actually deliver on all of those ambitious promises. The people who hand out these awards don't really have a "show me" attitude, which would probably bring their awards some added credibility.

-Travail.

Pic or didn't happen.

Witcher 3 will win game of the year. ESO will come a strong second.

usually you don't get that title unless the games been out for a while and people actually had a chance to vote on this sort of thing .. typicaly atleast 6 months to a year AFTER release.

Like GOTY means anything anyway. Some tiny, new reviewer could give a game their "GOTY" approval and that would be enough for that publisher or developer to stick "GOTY edition" over it in bright yellow letters. "Ultimate edition" or "Complete Edition" would be a level headed approach, unless of course that title is Grand Theft Auto 5 or the like.

I expect what ever source you are referring to actually meant "most anticipated title".

Please post the link where you saw this. The closest I saw was an article from 2012 listing it as most anticipated game for 2013 [it was before the delay announcement].

Maybe the Game of the Year awards are handed out by the Nobel Committee.

Oh, are you thinking of the Peace Award given to a certain head of state? That particular committee is Norwegian, which explains a lot... (this is a bad joke only Swedish forum-members will get)

Blahaha. That was epic.

Game hasn't been released yet, so it can't be.

Honestly, I think it'll come down between Witcher 3 and ESO. I can't make any judgments until I play Witcher 3.

You are very perceptive . . .

GOTY for 2013 is GTA V. Easily.

Or "The Last of Us". THey are both so well received that it would be hard to say which one at the moment.

I haven't played that yet, although I am really looking forward to it after I get through my back catalogue of games. Bioshock Infinite would also be right up there. A strong year for gaming.