{"id":86732,"date":"2025-01-28T23:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/xqc-slams-unfair-among-us-game-awards-win-over-warzone-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T23:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:51:26","slug":"xqc-slams-unfair-among-us-game-awards-win-over-warzone-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/xqc-slams-unfair-among-us-game-awards-win-over-warzone-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"xQc slams \u201cunfair\u201d Among Us Game Awards win over Warzone &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>xQc slams \u201cunfair\u201d Among Us Game Awards win over Warzone xQc\/InnerSlothTwitch streamer Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel has slammed the decision to award Among Us as the Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2020, highlighting some of the game\u2019s online issues. While The Last of Us Part II was the smash hit of this year\u2019s The Game Awards, netting eight wins, there were other awards on the night that have attracted plenty of attention. InnerSloth\u2019s popular title \u2018Among Us\u2019 brought home the Best Multiplayer Game award, fighting off competition from Warzone, Valorant, Fall Guys and Animal Crossing. It also won Best Mobile game, ahead of Genshin Impact, CoD Mobile, Legends of Runeterra and Pokemon Cafe Mix. However, the decision to give the Best Multiplayer accolade to Among Us didn\u2019t go down too well with some parts of the gaming community. Some players argued that a game released in 2018 should not be considered for an award in 2020, while others questioned whether its success was sustained for long enough to deserve the award. xQc infuriated by Among Us Best Multiplayer win xQc also had major objections to Among Us being awarded Best Multiplayer, but for different reasons. He claimed Among Us was too laggy to play, and said Warzone or some VR games would have been much worthier recipients. Read More: Who is Jake Paul fighting next? &#8211; \u201cThe game wasn\u2019t playable for three months straight because of lag,\u201d he argued. \u201cOut there, VR games and Warzone make elaborate, insane network infrastructures that are hard to maintain and keep up for the players. And they do it with meticulous detail. \u201cThey pop off. One hundred player lobbies, always doing well, never lagging. \u2018F**k these guys man.\u2019 So unfair dude. It shouldn\u2019t be this way.\u201d Read More: xQc slams hate on female Twitch streamers &#8211; Despite initially being one of the main beneficiaries of the Among Us hype, xQc has since dialed down on streaming the game, having only played it once since November 11. Warzone has one of the largest player bases in gaming: since its initial release in March, its player base has increased from six million to 75 million people. It was nominated for two awards in this year\u2019s event: Best Multiplayer and Best Ongoing, losing out on the latter to No Man\u2019s Sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xQc slams \u201cunfair\u201d Among Us Game Awards win over Warzone xQc\/InnerSlothTwitch streamer Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel has slammed the decision to award Among Us as the Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2020, highlighting some of the game\u2019s online issues. While The Last of Us Part II was the smash hit of this year\u2019s The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}