This year's Game Awards ceremony garnered a lot of justified criticism for the way it rushed winning developers off stage in favour of adverts, rambling conversations with Hideo Kojima, and celebrity cameos from the likes of Timothée Chalamet.
Geoff Keighley Claims The Game Awards Thirty-Second Speech Limit Was Eventually Relaxed And "No One Was Actually Cut Off"
09.12.2023 - 19:39 / mmorpg.com / Geoff Keighley / Michelle Yeoh
The Game Awards has faced a slew of criticism about its format as developers were urged off stage. Its creator, director and figurehead Geoff Keighley responded and recognized the widespread frustration the next day on social media.
“By the way — I do agree that the music was played too fast for award winners this year, and I asked our team to relax that rule as the show went on,” he said in a tweet (or “post” on X) on his personal account. “While no one was actually cut off, it’s something to address going forward.” Nothing else has been said about the matter by him nor TGA official social media.
<p dir=«ltr» lang=«en» xml:lang=«en»>By the way — I do agree that the music was played too fast for award winners this year, and I asked our team to relax that rule as the show went on. While no one was actually cut off, it’s something to address going forward.Officially, winners were given 30 seconds to present their speech, though many expanded it to a minute as music swelled over their final words. After the 30 seconds, they were “played off,” which means that the music meant to bridge the speech and the content to follow starts, indicating that the speaker is being politely urged to depart from the stage.
The play-off is a common technique in awards shows where a 45- to 60-second speech is designated. It’s usually ignored in larger categories and by bigger stars (including Michelle Yeoh humorously telling a pianist to not interrupt at the Golden Globes this year).
For later awards, especially Game of the Year, it does seem that the play-off was relaxed quite a bit. Still, the damage was done, especially among other critiques about the awards, or dearth of them, during the broadcast.
A YouTube video not only compiles the speeches, but displays the 30-second timer shown to each winner; the compiled speech length is only just about ten minutes. Another tweet from an in-person attendee shows the infamous “Please Wrap It Up” demand on the teleprompter, too.
<p dir=«ltr» lang=«en» xml:lang=«en»>Lmao the prompter pic.twitter.com/v1Jg9WwFUYMeanwhile, because the actual awards seemed to be so short, several critics have tried to run the numbers. IGN estimated that about 18% of The Game Awards were actually dedicated to speeches. On Bluesky, a games industry veteran gave a more precise estimate : about 41 minutes and 29 seconds was dedicated to awards out of the 3-hour, 34-minute, 38-second runtime, with 14 categories announced over 4 minutes and 33 seconds, clocking in the time closer to 19%. There were only three “by the way, we have these categories too” winners that were able to give a speech, including Nintendo.
Either way, awards were less than a fifth of The Game Awards. Combined with a myriad of
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