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I really dislike that it's game news outlets that get the vote, because they're just plain gonna have a different outlook on games than people who don't have to engage with ones they both do and don't like as a job, and it really shows in the kind of games that get picked (shorter main storylines, narrative-driven), and the ones that don't (sandboxes, open-world games, strategy, simulation games, etc).
And that's only even when it's not a selection of the 5 most well-known games, since just like the Academy Awards, not all of them have even played all the games they're voting on.
Well typically the outlet convenes with a bunch of people who have played a wide variety of games, so I feel they have a pretty good pool of minds to pull from.
Also I don't think it's a bad system compared to having it be all user voted. Golden joysticks already exist for 100% public vote, and that can be easily influenced by bots and the like. Also half of the games nominated for game of the year this year were open world games that were not short. I mean I don't think many expected in January a crpg would win in a year a Zelda game came out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯