Nomination is less prominently advertised in Steam compared to the voting itself, but you can nominate any game for an award via its store page. If I hear of it before it is over, it’s usually because the devs of some game I’m playing are asking for nominations, I don’t remember it being advertised on the store frontpage.
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DireTech@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoHuh I still don’t remember ever getting an open ended choice.
crater2150@feddit.org 4 days ago
jonathan@piefed.social 4 days ago
I got a prompt when I started steam, in the same popup window carousel they use for advertising. You probably did too but are conditioned to ignore and close it.
crater2150@feddit.org 4 days ago
Probably yes. But the final voting is advertised on the store front page and usually during the winter sale, sometimes with things like getting cards or such stuff for voting, in addition to the pop-up. At least for me it seems more prominent in the interface than the nominations
jonathan@piefed.social 4 days ago
Read back through the thread, the point is the nominations are user submitted.
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
The nomination phase has a few suggestions for you, based on what you played. But if you don’t like them/want something else, there’s a button for that. Now you’ll know for next year.