Still too much anime on the steam store

[Bone Man 2]

There's other posts like this and the replies are usually just as predictable:
You can filter out tags! You can set your preferences! Mark such titles as "Not interested", etc etc

Usually they come from people who enjoy such things, and do not use such features to remove said content from the store....

I've had these tags blocked and had them filtered out from my preferences for literally YEARS, and yet still on my discovery queue and front page of the steam store it's still there. Any time it pops up in my discovery queue, I mark it as not interested and move on but my store is still flooded with anime. What the hell?

[Aachen]

How “flooded” are we discussing?

[Aachen]

HeyItsMe!! eredeti hozzászólása:

Read my post? On the front page of the steam store and in my discovery queue. So either the first thing I see or it's in a bundle games that's supposedly tailored to my viewing preferences.

Also 1. Click on steam store
2. Click on points shop.
3. Profit
Bonus step: Click on avatars/backgrounds

So “see them at all” flooded?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

HeyItsMe!! eredeti hozzászólása:

Also 1. Click on steam store
2. Click on points shop.
3. Profit
Bonus step: Click on avatars/backgrounds

The preferences have nothing to do with the Points Shop, as of now.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

HeyItsMe!! eredeti hozzászólása:

cSg|mc-Hotsauce eredeti hozzászólása:

The preferences have nothing to do with the Points Shop, as of now.

Yes, this is just an extra bit to help prove my point, though

But the Points Shop is not the store. That's my point.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

HeyItsMe!! eredeti hozzászólása:

cSg|mc-Hotsauce eredeti hozzászólása:

But the Points Shop is not the store. That's my point.

:qr:

? It's featured on the front page of the steam store.
When you buy games it awards you store points and tells you to visit the points shop.
The link is https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop
It is part of the store.

Then tell me what games you can purchase on it. Tell me the tags that are on the item descriptions. There are none. Thus the preferences cannot work on it.

[Seraphita]

There's never too much anime on the store. If anything, we need much more. Preferences. You dislike something other people like. The problem here might be that you despise it so much that you curse seeing any of it. A proper tag filtering system goes hand in hand with proper tagging. As for your issue, I suggest you actually ignore games you don't like.

Steam is already doing its best to give a working filter. For the point store, you can also just look at games you own or again, ignore stuff you don't like. Maybe it's just me but I see lot of stuff I don't like and I can just easily ignore them and focus on things I actually like.

[crunchyfrog]

Good. there should be. Just because you don't like the answer doesn't make it invalid.

It shows a lack of empathy on your part frankly. Why shouldn't a digital store with essential infinite shelf space stock as much as possible? What about those that like those games? What about those that dislike YOUR games? Think on that.

Valve has to cater for EVERYBODY. Which is why you should use the filter tools. But understand you are NEVER ever going to have a perfect filtering system because reality doesn't work like that. There are always grey areas, edge cases and so on.

So, sadly, this is the best approach - filter and filter some more. Or just ignore like I do.

[No skill only Tiktok]

Do you have anyone on your friendlist who is playing or wishlisting those games?

[Bealla Donna]

Not enough anime

[ReBoot]

That assumption, that "Use the solution available" comes from people enjoying anime is ignorant. While we can agree that anime is somewhat like football (you can either love it fanatically or hate it with a burning passion with barely anything in between), but that doesn't change the fact that there's more to this topic than those two camps. There's also that middle camp, so to speak, of people who don't care about anime/hate anime but mange to ignore it just fine.

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crunchyfrog eredeti hozzászólása:

Good. there should be. Just because you don't like the answer doesn't make it invalid.

It shows a lack of empathy on your part frankly. Why shouldn't a digital store with essential infinite shelf space stock as much as possible? What about those that like those games? What about those that dislike YOUR games? Think on that.

Valve has to cater for EVERYBODY. Which is why you should use the filter tools. But understand you are NEVER ever going to have a perfect filtering system because reality doesn't work like that. There are always grey areas, edge cases and so on.

So, sadly, this is the best approach - filter and filter some more. Or just ignore like I do.

Yea so just cause someone else likes it let them see it. It shouldn't be shoved down anyone throats that don't want to see it. If people filter out anime then all types of anime should be gone from their store page. Just like people who don't like shooters. If they filter out shooters they shouldn't see a single shooter game at all. If i filter something out i shouldn't see it on my version of the store page. If i do then the filter is heavily broken.

That's why filters are personal people have their own likes and dislikes. Just because someone don't like to see the a certain type of game but you want to see, don't mean everyone should have to, just because you like it.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Here I am with the filters working just fine and I don't see a "flood" of anime.

[Kargor]

ReBoot eredeti hozzászólása:

That assumption, that "Use the solution available" comes from people enjoying anime is ignorant. While we can agree that anime is somewhat like football (you can either love it fanatically or hate it with a burning passion with barely anything in between), but that doesn't change the fact that there's more to this topic than those two camps. There's also that middle camp, so to speak, of people who don't care about anime/hate anime but mange to ignore it just fine.

Or the fourth group: I don't really care all that much about which art style is being used, as long as the result looks good.

For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge eredeti hozzászólása:

That's why filters are personal people have their own likes and dislikes. Just because someone don't like to see the a certain type of game but you want to see, don't mean everyone should have to, just because you like it.

That's not generally how real shops are structured, though. If there's something you don't like, you just ignore the shelf yourself.

Thus, "filtering" in the Steam store is already a bonus that you don't get in the real world.

[Tolkien Book Fan]

HeyItsMe!! eredeti hozzászólása:

cSg|mc-Hotsauce eredeti hozzászólása:

But the Points Shop is not the store. That's my point.

:qr:

? It's featured on the front page of the steam store.
When you buy games it awards you store points and tells you to visit the points shop.
The link is https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop
It is part of the store.

Semantic arguments won't expand the user tags on games to the Points Shop. The Points Shop is a separate section from the video games on the store. The Points Shop appears to have no filters of any kind. It should, both for people that don't want certain content and because there is a lot of content to sort through, but it doesn't.

If you mean the Front Page in general, I have filtered the anime tag for years. I sometimes see Anime games recommended if I have recently played a game tagged (correctly or not) Anime, but only in one section of the Front Page at a time. Having said that, I point and laugh at the Front Page in general as it usually displays only how little Steam's algorithms understand me.

[ReBoot]

Kargor eredeti hozzászólása:

ReBoot eredeti hozzászólása:

That assumption, that "Use the solution available" comes from people enjoying anime is ignorant. While we can agree that anime is somewhat like football (you can either love it fanatically or hate it with a burning passion with barely anything in between), but that doesn't change the fact that there's more to this topic than those two camps. There's also that middle camp, so to speak, of people who don't care about anime/hate anime but mange to ignore it just fine.

Or the fourth group: I don't really care all that much about which art style is being used, as long as the result looks good.

As a matter of fact, I'm in that group myself. It's just that I kinda see the point of hating anime. Doesn't help that anime (on Steam, anyway) is often associated with etchi/hentai and what Japanese think of the female anatomy, is rather often rather weird (if not disgusting because of sexualized clearly very young characters). On the other hand, there's some anime stuff I genuieny like watching (the 16yo female protagonist of Hellsing, for example, is awesome). Come to think of it, by far the best depiction of a sexualized female protagonist comes from Japan as well, I'm talking about Bayonetta. That I'm-badass-and-I-know-it sexy-confident demeanor of her, that over-the-top playful representation of lust (helps that the gameplay is fantastic instead of the game being a lazy excuse to convey TNA).