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It won by default of the article being written by a lazy bumDidn't it win more or less by default?
On a personal note, as with all the other RPGs mentioned so far, Dragon Age has something similar for me. That is, I haven't played it. Any of them. Rather strange for someone who pretends to be running an RPG website (In my defence, it doesn't help that they release these things all at the same time at the end of the year and that I have a habit of picking up games a few years after their release - Fallout 3 & Mass Effect, here I come). No, instead, I was doing something else with my time...
Technically speaking, the 2009 RPGOTY was Haven&Hearth because that's the only thing being discussed in the article with actual experience.
But if you check similar threads at the time, DAO didn't actually get that much of praise (nothing special). It was actually a pretty good year for RPGs at the time, considering the times: Risen, Div II, KotC, Drakensang TDE, Geneforge 5, even Mysteries of Westgate was pretty decent. On the console front there was Dark Spire, SMT Strange Journey and Demon's Souls.