Steam has been solely recommending me some absolutely crappy zombie HL2 mod since forever now, about time it started showing something interesting.
Good, it's dog shit and just tells me about games I don't give a fuck about, like it still fucking shows me Anime games despite setting that tag to be ignored.
Put it on not interested
-snip do not harm-
Very wishful thinking, but I hope some additional human element is added to multi check. The amount of VR games that show up as recommended, but are not tagged as VR(and thus bypass how I have VR filtered to not be shown) is maddening. Almost like it's being done on purpose.
Great, can't wait to be bombarded with more anime adventure shit due to me owning 2 games that turned out was just spamming the skip button simulators.
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;52054168]Put it on not interested[/QUOTE]
I have marked 3600 games as "not interested" by clicking on a tiny arrow which you can easily miss (and land on the game's store page) - it's useless. I still get unrelated shit recommended. I buy a bundle with two good and five crap games, I test the crap games for two minutes before I can uninstall them forever because I know instantly that it's not my taste and Steam fills my recommendations - the first thing you see on the store page - with pixel graphics platformer indie games.
At first I liked the idea of getting a tad more customization options with the last big Steam update but it just doesn't work. Especially not with just three tags to exclude. Why didn't they also add prefered tags? It would have been a start.
Since Valve doesn't care about controlling the floodgates of shit games coming onto Steam, I'd say it's about time they work towards letting the customers see what they want to see.
[QUOTE]Probably the biggest front-facing change will be the addition of "Steam Explorers," an opt-in system in which users buy a game from a pre-selected list, then play and evaluate it based on various criteria. The games will have to be purchased, but Valve is considering "perks" for members of the program including unique badges, access to exclusive forums, and no-strings-attached refunds (one per week) which will make "explored" games not too terribly different from conventional review copies.[/QUOTE]
Very cool. Definite potential for abuse considering the type of users on Steam, but optimistically will make the whole "hey, you may be interested in this game" way more accurate. I'd probably participate to motivate myself to play more than the 2 games I do currently.
Probably would help if a lot of games were better tagged along with recommendations being smarter, not that I expect that to actually happen, mind you. I've gotten recommendations for Nekopara from play Final Fantasy X. Stardew Valley from playing Caves of Qud (a text-based roguelike like Nethack). And the Sakura games from playing Pathologic. Talk about completely off the mark.
Valve needs a game version of the music genome project, (Pandora and a few other services use it to great success) which would be a much nicer system. Not like they're short on financing and they've been wanted to expand into more tech related stuff.
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