How do I create Dynamic Collections based on game Developers or Publishers?

[|UGA|PatPeter]

One of the Steam beta updates before the library destroyed all of the categories that I was using for my games, it became a flat list again. Before, I had all of my games categorized by either developer or publisher.

Is it possible to automatically group my games by developer or publisher in my collections?

[|UGA|PatPeter]

Originally posted by GG:

How about you group them how you like it?

I like it grouped by publisher...

If I buy a new Paradox game, I want it to automatically show up in the Paradox Games category. It also saves time. I'm not going through my whole library and categorizing every game.

[grody_antagonic]

I agree, an option to sort by dev/pub is certainly missing!
I often sorted the old library by dev. The new one lacks that feature so far...

[J☻N▲TH▲N]

This is something I would also very much appreciate having some way to automate, rather than having to do it by hand for hundreds of games in my library.

It wouldn't even have to be a dynamic collection option necessarily. As long as we could just filter by developer and publisher fields when creating a static collection, that would be enough to take the majority of the work out of it (though a dynamic collection filter option would be nice too.)

[ButtsMcTooty]

I agree this functionality is much needed.

[|UGA|PatPeter]

Sad to hear that they STILL haven't added this functionality.

[Sysgen]

I categorize by Publisher but I do it manually. Seems like a no brainer but here we are.

[Sazzouu]

Given the fact that most bigger Studios these days have several publisher studios under their roof instead of just one that wont help anyways...

Perfect example is Ubisoft. Even within franchises they have "different publishers". Anno 1404 as well as most other Anno games were published by "Ubisoft". Some others had been published by "Ubisoft Montreal" and the latest Anno 1800 was published by "Blue Byte" which is also property of Ubisoft.

Same goes for other AAA's such as EA. So even if there WAS such a feature you wouldn't be very happy with it in the long run. Just go with manually created and managed collections for Franchises and Publishers

[grody_antagonic]

I like many small Indie-Devs. In the previous library I could just sort by Dev/Pub. I even discovered more games from a dev I already had and was surprised to see that they were made by the same persons. I can't do that anymore in the new library.
I do like the new library, but I VERY much miss that feature.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Sysgen:

I categorize by Publisher but I do it manually. Seems like a no brainer but here we are.

Well, as Sazzouu alluded to it's not even unified within once company.
Then you have thousands of self-published games.

And lastly publishers can change.

So it's a pretty bad system to categorize by.

[Sysgen]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by Sysgen:

I categorize by Publisher but I do it manually. Seems like a no brainer but here we are.

Well, as Sazzouu alluded to it's not even unified within once company.
Then you have thousands of self-published games.

And lastly publishers can change.

So it's a pretty bad system to categorize by.

I get that but put the feature in and let users decide. Meanwhile Valve put in an Early Access tag library filter which doesn't work because hundreds of games coming out of Early Access still have the Early Access tag. We thereby have a situation where Valve does not support their own implementations.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/EarlyAccessTagSanitizer

[ibuprohpen]

Have this still not added this?

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Lazar The Fifth:

Have this still not added this?

nope. i also do not see much reason

[Pod]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by Lazar The Fifth:

Have this still not added this?

nope. i also do not see much reason

Who cares if you can or can't see a reason? You're not implementing this. The rest of us can see a reason and really want to be able to filter our libraries by developer and publisher.

[crunchyfrog]

Isn't something I would use, but hey I can see the benefit to some users, so I approve.

[xSamurai]

+1