Geoff Keighley let video game developers down

It's an industry hype event. People who felt let down don't understand what the event is.

I just wanna see happy developers get recognized and appreciated. I guess I should have expected capitalism to tell me that's not allowed.
Exactly, what regular person even cares about this? It’s like the Obama giving an award to himself meme, all the AAA techbros congratulating each other.
- what regular person even cares about this?
  The award show is just the boring bit between trailers.

He's the opposite of Jason Schreier he wants this to be the Oscars of gaming which means pandering to the publishers and owners and then we all get in a circle and pat each other's butts not rock the boat with controversy or opinions.

You cannot run a big expensive awards show without convincing someone to pay those expenses. That why there are so many trailers and game announcements at the game awards. The games industry are the ones paying for the event and that influences the content.
It's not a reflection on Geoff Keighley's character that he chose not to cover the layoffs, that's just the nature of running a show like this. The real work in show business is fundraising, and you won't be in the business long if you speak out against those who give those funds.
Money is coercive.
- Agreed. Does anyone think they're going to mention the writers strike at next year's Oscars?
- You do not need to run a big expensive awards show full of ads. It's a reflection of your character if you choose the big expensive award show over highlighting the massive issues the industry has. If you have a platform, how you choose to use it is a reflection of you.
  If he was hired to present, sure. But this is his thing. He controls what it is and chooses the big award show funded by the big companies.
  This is the dorito Dew King, of course, so I don't know why people expect otherwise.
He’s the opposite of Jason Schreier
Neither is a trustworthy journalist.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

At this point, you cannot talk about how amazing 2023 has been for the quality of games released this year without also mentioning how it’s been utterly disastrous for the people who made them.

But with the platform Keighley has, he does have a duty to his audience to recognize the conditions under which the games his events celebrate are made.

In 2021, when Activision Blizzard was hit with a harassment suit by the state of California, Keighley took to X (formerly Twitter) to say the company wouldn’t make an appearance at the show, writing on X, “There is no place for abuse, harassment or predatory practices in any company or any community.”

Throughout this year’s awards show, Keighley and developers spoke about the impact video games have on our culture and their radical ability to change minds and broaden perspectives.

To not memorialize that at all, even after acknowledging the power of his position, is, at best, an abdication of the responsibility of his platform if not outright cowardice.

It’s a state all the more disappointing since Keighley has already demonstrated that he does pay attention to the wider video game community beyond hyping up “world premieres” and paling around with his industry besties — and Muppets.

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