Games

To me, it’s an indicator that the rest of the industry bankrupted its talent and innovation. There’s been some great indie games, but nothing overwhelmingly amazing, certainly not in the AAA space.

I don't see the point of limiting the nominees to just one-per-game, for best performance. There's still only one winner, and if that game legitimately had that many fantastic performances, more power to 'em.

I'll second the idea of keeping Best Indie and Best Debut Indie separate. I'll go further and say E33 just isn't an Indie game, it's pretty solidly AA.

This is why some award shows have an award for being so outstanding you're in danger of ruining the show by taking all the awards. They give the award to them at the beginning and remove them from all categories, basically letting everyone play for second place.

I think more than specifically any game being better at X than E33, I think a lot of people are mostly just upset there were so many great games that just didn't win anything because E33 was there.