As someone that absolutely loves BG3 with over 400 hours and even bought multiple copies for my friends, there were way better candidates for this particular award. Did we really even get that much this year for BG3 compared to games like No Mans Sky and Helldivers? I'm not saying those games are better, just that in terms of content and support Larian didn't really do much this year while No Mans Sky got two huge updates and Helldivers has been consistently adding stuff all year.