End of Year Community Awards: Best Post-Release Support of 2017
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With 2017 having come to a close we look back on the developments that have taken place and acknowledge the various efforts in sports gaming. The next category in the annual Community Awards is open for voting. You can check out the winners from previous years here.
Best Gameplay, Best Career/Story Mode, Best Franchise Mode, Best Team-Building Mode, Best Presentation and Best Online Play can already be voted on! Categories still to come include Sports Game of the Year, Best New or Non-Yearly Sports Game, Best Mobile Game, Best Racing Game, and Best New Feature. All winners announced later in the month.
The games nominated for Best Post-Release Support have gone above and beyond the typical consumer expectation of simply receiving various improvements and fixes by also delivering consistent content updates and even brand new ways to play.
Madden NFL 18 goes for three wins in a row for the franchise after a series of patches that have improved gameplay and added features plus regular reliable roster updates and continuous new content within Ultimate Team. Rocket League makes yet another run at the award having finished as the runner-up in 2016. The game has been kept remarkably fresh through new features, arenas, items, and game modes. NBA Playgrounds debuts having added 128 players to the roster since it came out in May along with more courts/tournaments while making a number of valuable changes to the game based on consumer feedback.