Hayatemaru Oct 4, 2024 @ 11:49am
Steam tags has been ruined by user
Why is DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake tagged as LGBT+? The game has no sexual content or any interactions like that. for gender setting sure? puffpuff? After seeing this, I browsed more and found other games that also have nothing to do with adult content—just normal RPGs and visual novels with no content related to lesbian themes or anything similar. Even games about fantasy adventures with female protagonists, which have great stories ended with sad ending, but no romance at all, are being tagged.

Why is Valve allowing this? I’m not sure how many votes it takes for games to show up with these stupid tags, I know many discussions have covered this in the past, but no one has actually mentioned searching by tags on Steam isn't reliable anymore if many user intentionally misleading tags in future like racing game identified as platforming games, just let developer tags their own games...
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Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:
Originally only the developers could tag the games. They abused it by tagging lots of incorrect tags to get into searches. So users complained and wanted it differently and we got the system we have now. And people still complain.

Cause you know, the problem is simply "people being people".

Report the incorrect tags.
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ReBoot Oct 4, 2024 @ 11:55am 
Report wrong tags.
The author of this thread has indicated that this post answers the original topic.
Crazy Tiger Oct 4, 2024 @ 11:55am 
Originally only the developers could tag the games. They abused it by tagging lots of incorrect tags to get into searches. So users complained and wanted it differently and we got the system we have now. And people still complain.

Cause you know, the problem is simply "people being people".

Report the incorrect tags.
Last edited by Crazy Tiger; Oct 4, 2024 @ 11:55am
admiral1018 Oct 4, 2024 @ 12:15pm 
It was tagged that way because it's a body type A/B game. Non-binary identifications fall under LGBTQ.
Amaterasu Oct 4, 2024 @ 12:19pm 
Originally posted by admiral1018:
It was tagged that way because it's a body type A/B game. Non-binary identifications fall under LGBTQ.

Except A/B is literally a binary identification system. Binary requires two things, no more, no less. So it's not non-binary, sorry. :SpadeSmug:
admiral1018 Oct 4, 2024 @ 12:24pm 
Originally posted by Amaterasu:
Originally posted by admiral1018:
It was tagged that way because it's a body type A/B game. Non-binary identifications fall under LGBTQ.

Except A/B is literally a binary identification system. Binary requires two things, no more, no less. So it's not non-binary, sorry. :SpadeSmug:

Any identification system that ignores male and female fits under that. Why do you think the devs chose those labels instead of traditional genders.
Amaterasu Oct 4, 2024 @ 1:16pm 
Originally posted by admiral1018:
Originally posted by Amaterasu:

Except A/B is literally a binary identification system. Binary requires two things, no more, no less. So it's not non-binary, sorry. :SpadeSmug:

Any identification system that ignores male and female fits under that. Why do you think the devs chose those labels instead of traditional genders.

You are proudly part of DEID, which proves that the only truth in your mind is whatever elicits the strongest anger response. I could rename male and female to 0 and 1 and it'd still be binary. Welcome to the definition of binary. Doesn't matter what labels you put on it, as long as it's either one or the other, it's binary.

Male-Female: Binary
A-B: Binary
0-1: Binary
Off-On: Binary
Dude-Dudette: Binary

Perhaps instead of chasing ghosts and that next rage high, stop listening to people who don't care about you outside of being a statistic for ad revenue and start educating yourself about real problems with the world and the video game industry.
Amaterasu Oct 4, 2024 @ 1:27pm 
Originally posted by admiral1018:
Originally posted by Amaterasu:

You are proudly part of DEID, which proves that the only truth in your mind is whatever elicits the strongest anger response. I could rename male and female to 0 and 1 and it'd still be binary. Welcome to the definition of binary. Doesn't matter what labels you put on it, as long as it's either one or the other, it's binary.

Male-Female: Binary
A-B: Binary
0-1: Binary
Off-On: Binary
Dude-Dudette: Binary

Perhaps instead of chasing ghosts and that next rage high, stop listening to people who don't care about you outside of being a statistic for ad revenue and start educating yourself about real problems with the world and the video game industry.

That's a very passionate response for someone who completely ignored the comment about why the devs chose to use type A/B instead of male and female labels.

It was their decision to virtue signal in that way, and the community tagged the game appropriately. End of discussion. You seem pretty worked up about this, so maybe take your own advice at the end of the last post.

I ignored the "point" because said point has no intellectual substance. This entire anti-woke movement has nothing to do with intellectualism or any real problems with the industry or else y'all would be calling for the end to such practices as firing people after a game is finally finished in order to post higher profits for the shareholders, crunch culture, unreasonably tight deadlines, the demonization of QA, the attempted eradication of QA while trying to foist it upon the customer, cutting content out of the game in order to sell it back to you at a later date.

You know, things actually damaging the video game industry. Instead, it's all because, "Someone told me to be mad, so I'm going to be mad." Woke didn't ruin video games. Whatever the new definition of woke is didn't exist until this decade, Video Gaming has been a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ since before 2010. Why? Because of literally everything I listed above. But none of that's important because the person you go to in order to be told what to think has told you, "Don't get angry at any of that, all of that is good for the industry. Get angry at the "woke"!" Why do they do that? Because they benefit from keeping people like you perpetually enraged and they benefit from the video game industry whether or not it's a broken, corporatized mess or not.

By the way, being perpetually enraged at things has been proven to shorten your lifespan.
Tito Shivan Oct 4, 2024 @ 1:37pm 
Originally posted by admiral1018:
It was tagged that way because it's a body type A/B game. Non-binary identifications fall under LGBTQ.
Oh man, Are you going to love the new Terraria update.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:
Cause you know, the problem is simply "people being people"
It's the same thing that people tagging Barbie or Paw Patrol games as 'Psychological Horror'. Some people whenever given the choice, will behave as a tool.

I think Steam could do better in regards moderating the tag system.
admiral1018 Oct 4, 2024 @ 1:42pm 
Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
Oh man, Are you going to love the new Terraria update.

Oh. I'm aware.

Still not nearly as ridiculous as RuneScape. Updated a 12 year-old game solely to remove gender and add character pronouns.

Like I said, devs are entitled to do this stuff, and users are entitled to add the appropriate tags to the game. Let the market have the information and make their decisions from there.
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D. Flame Oct 4, 2024 @ 3:29pm 
Originally posted by Hayatemaru:
Why is DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake tagged as LGBT+?
Because Male and Female was replaced with Type 1 and Type 2.
Kiryn Oct 4, 2024 @ 3:43pm 
Originally posted by Amaterasu:
Why do they do that? Because they benefit from keeping people like you perpetually enraged

And that's the point of *all* this idiotic manufactured culture war stupidity. Whether they're calling it PC, or SJW, or Woke, or whatever they come up with next.

Keep the base enraged, keep them doing stupid performative (*&^ like machine-gunning their Bud Light, keep them distracted. So that they keep electing the same pro-billionaire, pro-corporate, grifters without noticing how they're dragging everything down and making things harder for the average Joe. All in the name of shoving $$$ into the pockets of the richest jerks.

And all the Youtube Outrage merchants are just the latest way to do it. Keep those "OMG, Panic over this total nothingburger! Our promo pic is all scary and red! Fear!" videos coming, and all the good minions reposting them in Off Topic. Gotta keep the plebes distracted and divided.

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Meanwhile, on the Tags topic - yeah, people have been mis-applying tags for years and years. Before all the actual sex games were here, for instance, anti-anime-game guys (or prudes. or both), were sticking the "Nudity" tag on any anime-art game that showed even a little cleavage, or had a swimsuit.
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Crazy Tiger Oct 4, 2024 @ 3:44pm 
Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
Originally posted by admiral1018:
It was tagged that way because it's a body type A/B game. Non-binary identifications fall under LGBTQ.
Oh man, Are you going to love the new Terraria update.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:
Cause you know, the problem is simply "people being people"
It's the same thing that people tagging Barbie or Paw Patrol games as 'Psychological Horror'. Some people whenever given the choice, will behave as a tool.

I think Steam could do better in regards moderating the tag system.
My son watched Paw Patrol very often. I can entirely support that tag on such a game. :madpug:
davidb11 Oct 4, 2024 @ 4:02pm 
It's well documented that Dragon Quest II remake has been censored. Even if said censorship is minor.

So, the tag is probably revenge from the people aggravated by the Body Type A/B.
I know the original creator is aggravated because honestly, the whole Type A/B thing is rather goofy.


DEID isn't the best, but it's also not the worst steam group to be a part of.
mldb88 Oct 4, 2024 @ 4:05pm 
Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:
Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
Oh man, Are you going to love the new Terraria update.


It's the same thing that people tagging Barbie or Paw Patrol games as 'Psychological Horror'. Some people whenever given the choice, will behave as a tool.

I think Steam could do better in regards moderating the tag system.
My son watched Paw Patrol very often. I can entirely support that tag on such a game. :madpug:

Boy do I have the meme for you... ever hear of Saw Patrol?

As for the actual topic though, yea people have been misappropriating tags for ages. Just because a game classifies characters by body type rather than male/female does not mean it has LGBTQ content or that the tag is actually relevant. So unless they leaned super hard into the puff puff massage gag this time and actually played it straight instead of the ol bait and switch they've done every game (which I highly doubt)... yea the tag probably isn't really applicable.
Amaterasu Oct 4, 2024 @ 4:21pm 
Originally posted by davidb11:
It's well documented that Dragon Quest II remake has been censored. Even if said censorship is minor.

So, the tag is probably revenge from the people aggravated by the Body Type A/B.
I know the original creator is aggravated because honestly, the whole Type A/B thing is rather goofy.


DEID isn't the best, but it's also not the worst steam group to be a part of.

It was censored in the GBC remake of the game. Which would be over 20 years old at this point. It's not well documented so much as misleading. People are acting like, "Oh, it's suddenly censored because woke!" No, a lot of this ♥♥♥♥ is over 20 years old at this point, just people are suddenly caring now.
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