Exclude developers and publishers from my discovery queue

[Hexecutive]

I already took GREAT pains to go manually to every. single. Ubisoft. game. to mark "not interested" if it had uPlay, but that didn't work.

Now there's a field to exclude products in the discovery queue customization but I STILL can't banish Ubisoft/ Konami/ 2K / Rockstar / Digital Homicide.

Please PLEASE help me declutter Steam, the sheer amount of trash I have to see is actively preventing me from discovering games I actually would ever be even slightly interested in. This is the first sale I've only bought 4 games. Next sale I just imagine it would be too much work to bother at all anymore, sorry.

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EDIT: Damn it. I thought this was the suggestions forum. Nvm.

I agree with this sentiment. Having searched the suggestion forum for '"discovery queue" publisher' and skimming a few pages shows that this kind of feature has been desired by multiple users since at least 2014.


IMPLEMENTATION SUGGESTION:
A way to implement this would be to add "Publisher" and "Developer" tags in "Customize Your Discovery Queue" dialogue. Simply make it so that whenever a game is added, a new tag of the type "Publisher: A" and "Developer: B" is added.

When trying to type in a new tag, a listing of existing tags pops up. To not clutter this list with loads of publisher and developer names, one could simply show "Publisher: ..." and "Developer: ..." in the list, at first. Upon selecting either of these tags in the drop-down list, the list would then be refreshed with names of publishers and developers respectively.


BUSINESS CONCERNS:
On the business side, the statistics gained from this could prove valuable even to the publishers and developers being filtered out. It is no secret that publishers such as Electronic Arts, Activision and Ubisoft are critisized for various business practises (e.g. microtransactions) by a concerned section of the video game community.
It may be unclear to businesses how large or how small this group actually is. And this information could prove valuable to the game industry whether they wish to market to this group or not.
Other non-filtered studios could also observe the statistics when considering if they should bother tapping into this 'neglected' market.

For users (like myself the Opening Poster above) it is absolutely valuable to not have to filter all these titles by hand. If this tedium costs Steam sales due to the consumer becoming too bored to continue, then surely that is worth to consider fixing?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Suggestion/Idea forum ---> http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/

Use the forum search first before making a new thread there.

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Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Siggestion/Idea forum ---> http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/

Use the forum search first before making a new thread there.

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I did. However I failed to notice that it searched outside the target forum, so I ended up replying to a thread that wasn't in the Suggestion/Idea forum. Will retry with some other thread in the correct forum.