A game in my library is not in alphabetical order

[Rookie]

So yesterday I migrated my Bethesda games form my Bethesda account to steam, it was "The elder scrolls: morrowwind". I notice in my library that is is between "Deep rock galactic" and "garry's mod", despite beginning with the letter T. Why is that?

[J4MESOX4D]

Because the 'The' is omitted and it is considered to start with an 'E' for Elder.

[乄$LâЧЗГ乡Nixツ]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Because the 'The' is omitted and it is considered to start with an 'E' for Elder.

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[Rookie]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Because the 'The' is omitted and it is considered to start with an 'E' for Elder.

Ahh makes sense, thank you! But why is that the case? Do you happen to know?

Edit: I just realised skyrim is also not in order!! I didn't notice it since I have skyrim hidden form library, but I just checked

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by Unit 45:

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Because the 'The' is omitted and it is considered to start with an 'E' for Elder.

Ahh makes sense, thank you! But why is that the case? Do you happen to know?

I think it's just how its listed by the developers. Same with The Escapists and The Forest. Maybe it's because there is such a high volume of games beginning with 'The' and the fact some people discount the word for the actual games name as a priority. It certainly has thrown me a couple of times when trying to locate a game I'm looking for though!

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Unit 45:

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Because the 'The' is omitted and it is considered to start with an 'E' for Elder.

Ahh makes sense, thank you! But why is that the case? Do you happen to know?

Edit: I just realised skyrim is also not in order!!

It's just standard practise in sorting to ignore the articles "the" and "a". Stems from the old paper card filing, where it otherwise would be a nightmare to find books since quite a lot started with "The".

[Jerry]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

I think it's just how its listed by the developers.

From what I can tell, it is not decided by the dev/publisher, but is a general Steam feature, to put games into librarian order..
Not only "The", but also "A" and "An" are ignored in the sorting mechanics, and, for example for german titles, ä, ö and ü are sorted in as ae, oe and ue.
[Edit: Strangely enough, they only do this with english articles. Der/die/das and le/la do not follow the same system.]

Things get more confusing, when you realise, that some other pages, mainly the badges page, are sorted strictly alphabetical.