Canadian streamer and former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro player is rallying his fans to vote for Arc Raiders as Game of the Year at The Game Awards in December, imploring them to stop Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from taking the crown.
"Do not let that Expedition game win," Shroud said to his audience. "Do not let it. Absolutely do not. We all have to band together to make [Arc Raiders] win."
Shroud argued that multiplayer gamers are the "minority", and that single-player games keep hogging the spotlight, alluding to the fact that all but two TGA winners since its inception have been single-player - It Takes Two and Overwatch. But the idea that multiplayer gamers are a "minority" is blatantly untrue.
Look no further than the Steam charts: nine of the top ten most-played games on the platform are all multiplayer, with CS2 hitting 1.4 million players on a Thursday morning.
The global revenue for online gaming last year, meanwhile, was $27 billion, with a reported 80 percent of gamers between the ages of 16-24 playing online (via USwitch).
That's why countless publishers have embraced multiplayer, like Warner Bros. with Suicide Squad: Kill the...
