Who is responsible for tagging games?

[oH!No]

I notice that many games are tagged as sexual nudity, hentai and anime even tho they have nothing in common with those tags. So it makes me believe that because many Steam users are hiding those cheap hentai/anime porn games in their filters, there must be a group of people that tags even sports games as a hentai/anime so we are forced to remove those tags from filters to see games like New World or eFootball 2022.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

"Who is responsible for tagging games?"
That be the community, as the community can tag the games.
https://store.steampowered.com/tag/

If there is an incorrect tag on said game, you can report it.

[oH!No]

"If there is an incorrect tag on said game, you can report it"

It will take years to report all games with wrong tags :(

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by oH!No:

"If there is an incorrect tag on said game, you can report it"

It will take years to report all games with wrong tags :(

That kind of the point of having more people report, just like more people making said tags to begin with.

[oH!No]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Originally posted by oH!No:

"If there is an incorrect tag on said game, you can report it"

It will take years to report all games with wrong tags :(

That kind of the point of having more people report, just like more people making said tags to begin with.

I'll report just to see how long it takes for Steam to remove all the wrong tags from the game.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by oH!No:

I'll report just to see how long it takes for Steam to remove all the wrong tags from the game.

There no fixed time for how long it takes them, it can either take same day, or a month, the more people that chip in, the more support becomes aware as they have to handle reports, and tickets daily.

[R-]

The tags are always false or a lot game will miss. Why the publisher or developer dont tag?

[oH!No]

Originally posted by Relax-:

The tags are always false or a lot game will miss. Why the publisher or developer dont tag?

I agree with you. Players shouldn't be able to tag games in the Steam shop, becasue most tags are misleading.

[Satoru]

Developers are responsible

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Originally posted by oH!No:

Originally posted by Relax-:

The tags are always false or a lot game will miss. Why the publisher or developer dont tag?

I agree with you. Players shouldn't be able to tag games in the Steam shop, becasue most tags are misleading.

We must be looking at very different stores, because I rarely see misleading/inaccurate tags and when I do it's a few out of a big list.

I could easily link 100s of games that have at most 1 or two inaccurate tags with over a dozen that are perfectly fine. Obviously tiny unknown games with 5 user reviews or games that literally just came out are going to be less accurate, but for the most part this isn't true at all in my experience.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by oH!No:

Originally posted by Relax-:

The tags are always false or a lot game will miss. Why the publisher or developer dont tag?

I agree with you. Players shouldn't be able to tag games in the Steam shop, becasue most tags are misleading.

Game devs/publishers used to be the only ones that could tag games. And they tagged them with a many tags as they could. Which caused the community to ask for a change. So your complaining about something your fellow gamers asked for.

[oH!No]

Originally posted by Reggaejunkiedrew:

Originally posted by oH!No:

I agree with you. Players shouldn't be able to tag games in the Steam shop, becasue most tags are misleading.

We must be looking at very different stores, because I rarely see misleading/inaccurate tags and when I do it's a few out of a big list.

I could easily link 100s of games that have at most 1 or two inaccurate tags with over a dozen that are perfectly fine. Obviously tiny unknown games with 5 user reviews or games that literally just came out are going to be less accurate, but for the most part this isn't true at all in my experience.

Then check for e.g eFootball 2022 you gonna see how many misleading tags it has

[Cromi]

Originally posted by Reggaejunkiedrew:

Originally posted by oH!No:

I agree with you. Players shouldn't be able to tag games in the Steam shop, becasue most tags are misleading.

We must be looking at very different stores, because I rarely see misleading/inaccurate tags and when I do it's a few out of a big list.

I could easily link 100s of games that have at most 1 or two inaccurate tags with over a dozen that are perfectly fine. Obviously tiny unknown games with 5 user reviews or games that literally just came out are going to be less accurate, but for the most part this isn't true at all in my experience.

Although the tags have been greatly cleaned upped, here is the poster child for bad community tagging:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/758730/Paw_Patrol_On_A_Roll/

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Originally posted by oH!No:

Originally posted by Reggaejunkiedrew:

We must be looking at very different stores, because I rarely see misleading/inaccurate tags and when I do it's a few out of a big list.

I could easily link 100s of games that have at most 1 or two inaccurate tags with over a dozen that are perfectly fine. Obviously tiny unknown games with 5 user reviews or games that literally just came out are going to be less accurate, but for the most part this isn't true at all in my experience.

Then check for e.g eFootball 2022 you gonna see how many misleading tags it has

That's a single game, and it's so bad it's pretty much a meme anyway, it doesn't equate to "most tags are misleading"

Originally posted by Cromi:

Originally posted by Reggaejunkiedrew:

We must be looking at very different stores, because I rarely see misleading/inaccurate tags and when I do it's a few out of a big list.

I could easily link 100s of games that have at most 1 or two inaccurate tags with over a dozen that are perfectly fine. Obviously tiny unknown games with 5 user reviews or games that literally just came out are going to be less accurate, but for the most part this isn't true at all in my experience.

Although the tags have been greatly cleaned upped, here is the poster child for bad community tagging:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/758730/Paw_Patrol_On_A_Roll/

The fact its been cleaned up shows the system is working as intended. The Massively Multiplayer and Classic tags are misleading, but that's 2/12, most of the tags are what you'd expect.

[Kargor]

Tags just need proper definitions, and publishers need to set them, along with some repercussions if they are repeatedly setting wrong tags.

One of my "favorite" tags with regards to "definition" is "Visual Novel". The problem here is that, technically, a "Visual Novel" is a non-game. Note quite a like a movie, though, since they are using still images (or just minor animations, like facial expressions).

However, there are also games that don't use cutscenes, or just a few, and do their story-telling in VN-style to avoid having to make those expensive cutscenes.

The "Visual Novel" tag, however, is applied to both types of usage. Games that have no gameplay at all, and games that are proper games, but use VN-style cutscenes.

Thus, tags need to have a defined meaning. And when they do, we'd have grounds to slap publishers when they apply them incorrectly, but just pointing them to the definiton of the tag ad asking them where they see their game fitting that description. No community tagging would be required anymore, and tags would be much more reliable.

[oH!No]

Originally posted by Reggaejunkiedrew:

Originally posted by oH!No:

Then check for e.g eFootball 2022 you gonna see how many misleading tags it has

That's a single game, and it's so bad it's pretty much a meme anyway, it doesn't equate to "most tags are misleading"

Excuse me ☝️ The game can be horrible but that doesn’t mean you should tag it with whatever you like to.