Black Myth: Wukong Producer on Game Awards First Prize Snub: “I Came All This Way for Nothing!”

Black Myth: Wukong producer and game Science CEO Feng Ji has released a lengthy statement following the action game‘s apparent snub for top prize at this year’s The game Awards.

“The games nominated this year were all exceptional, but I honestly still can’t understand what the criteria for game of the Year were. I feel like I came here for nothing!” he wrote in a post on Weibo (translated on reddit).

Black Myth: Wukong took home the awards for Best Action game and Player Voice, so it didn’t leave empty-handed.

“Since last night I have seen a lot of dissatisfaction and frustration in player comments, often expressed with humor or irony, which made me laugh,” the producer continued.

“I perfectly understand these feelings and share the frustration, because behind these emotions is not pain or malice hidden, but dignity and trust.”

Feng Ji even admitted that he wrote his game of the Year acceptance speech two years ago, “only to never get the chance to deliver it.”

It’s unclear how facetious he has been in his statement, especially considering the machine translation, but some have read it as quite salty. Eurogamer has contacted game Science for further comment.

The producer went on to express his confidence in the game and his hopes that Black Myth Wukong’s success will be the start of a new wave of high-quality, engaging games from Chinese developers.

Former Sony Santa Monica writer Alanah Pearce shared on a stream that she saw someone from the game Science team crying in the audience when the game didn’t win. “It clearly meant a lot to them, they did something amazing, but it surprised me,” Pearce said.

Black Myth: Wukong lost to Astro Bot for game of the Year, which also won Best game Direction, Best Action/Adventure game, and Best Family game. Balatro and Metaphor: ReFantazio also won multiple awards.

An update for Black Myth: Wukong was released last week ahead of the awards, and it finally brings a highly requested map as well as a boss challenge mode.

Its launch on Xbox is still unknown.