"Profile Features Limited"/"Steam is learning about this game"

[Anyline]

Hey there!
I'm trying to understand why these tags were put into place.

After looking it up online I understand that Steam wants to limit "trash games" that are a cheap trading card grab and that makes sense.

But what I don't understand is why these games don't count towards the owned games count and why achievements don't count towards the game completion rate.

Limiting the achievements to 100 and having these restrictions in place for free games makes sense to me, but when I pay for a game why would Steam not make them count?
Is there any way to make money off of having a lot of achievements or completed games? Like, is there a specific reason as to why the achievements and game count are restricted in these cases?

[Crazy Tiger]

It's because trash games with lots of achievements were made and sold for the sole purpose of getting a +1 on the gamecount and to up the achievement rate.

When games have sold past a certain threshold, they get out of those phases. Cheap trash games like that need to sell a lot of copies to reach that treshold, so their purpose is nullified that way.

For regular games that don't get out of that phase, it simply means that the developer needs to do better marketing. Just dumping the game on Steam and expecting it to sell isn't guaranteed to sell good.

Simply put, it's a measure put in place to ensure that games get put on Steam for the correct reason, namely being an actual game that has actual effort in it (both development and marketing).

Also something people tend to forget (not you specific, I mean it generally), you buy games on Steam and the profile stuff is optional.

[Anyline]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

It's because trash games with lots of achievements were made and sold for the sole purpose of getting a +1 on the gamecount and to up the achievement rate.

When games have sold past a certain threshold, they get out of those phases. Cheap trash games like that need to sell a lot of copies to reach that treshold, so their purpose is nullified that way.

For regular games that don't get out of that phase, it simply means that the developer needs to do better marketing. Just dumping the game on Steam and expecting it to sell isn't guaranteed to sell good.

Simply put, it's a measure put in place to ensure that games get put on Steam for the correct reason, namely being an actual game that has actual effort in it (both development and marketing).

Also something people tend to forget (not you specific, I mean it generally), you buy games on Steam and the profile stuff is optional.

Didn't even think about it this way, great explanation! Thank you! :)

[Crazy Tiger]

Sure thing.

[Start_Running]

Keep in mind they actually have to 'sell' as well. No more flooding the the net with keys or from $1 bundle sites. Only the sales through steam count towards that.

[Everard]

I'm finding that even when the game comes out of the "Steam is learning about this game" mode, it doesn't give a +1 to my game count....any explanation for that?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Everard:

I'm finding that even when the game comes out of the "Steam is learning about this game" mode, it doesn't give a +1 to my game count....any explanation for that?

It does though. Your count was updated and some other game was removed from the count when it did. Look into #2 below...

There are many games that don't count towards the badge regardless if you "paid" for them or not.

1. Free2Play games don't count.

2. Games removed by Valve don't count. https://steam.madjoki.com/apps/banned

3. There are also games that are in the "Learning" phase...

Learning 

Community Created Artwork for Steam Artwork

By: cSg|mc-Hotsauce

Valve took care of that.

4. And also games with "Profile Features Limited..."

The reason why... 

Community Created Artwork for Steam Artwork

By: cSg|mc-Hotsauce

Is listed on the store page...

[Everard]

No man, I have over 2000 missing games, and only almost 500 are banned (removed from Steam), the rest are either "profile features limited" or "Steam is learning about this game" and they never get added back when they come out of that category....