The Authority of GOTY

GOTY (Game of the Year) is, quite literally, a collective term for awards given to outstanding games among the countless titles released that year.

However, its prestige would later decline due to accusations of excessive commercialism and being a popularity contest, but that was far in the future.

In the mid-2010s, it was an award that boasted absolute authority.

That's why I couldn't understand the reason for its nomination.

GOTY, then as now, tended to prioritize game quality over commercial viability.

Conversely, Mobile Games was a genre with an image quite distant from what is typically considered “game quality”.

It's awkward to say this as a Mobile Game Developer, but it was, quite literally, a genre that went all-in on commercialism.

While good Payment Accessibility was one reason, ultimately, when you got down to it, the platform's limitations were clear.

No matter how much effort was put into creating a game, the reality was that most of it couldn't be implemented due to the limitations of the mobile platform.

In any case, to sum it up, Reverse Arcadia was a game that had absolutely no connection to an award like GOTY...