[Improvement] Increase the Maximum limit of Exclusion Tags for Steam Discovery Queue customization

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I was having an issue because every time I tried to add a new Exclusion Tag to my Store queue customization it'd be deleted after I hit save.
I reached out to Steam support and this is what they said:

Originally posted by author:

Thank you for contacting Steam Support.

Thanks for your comments - we value feedback from the Steam community. I'm forwarding your comments on to the appropriate department.

Currently. the limit for excluding tags in your Discovery Queue is 12. Adding more than 12 will result in what you are seeing, the most recently added tags are removed from the list.

If you wish to share an opinion, suggestion, or idea with the community as well, please visit the Suggestions/Ideas section of the Steam Discussion forums.

This forum is regularly read by Valve's development team.

Steam Support

Is anyone else here frustrated by this?
I don't know about others, but there are entire Tags/Genres/Types of games I literally never want to be bothered with, and it's pointless of Valve to waste my time showing them to me, even if others love them. Especially since there really doesn't appear to be any Tagging police, I have to use similar tags to exclude a couple types of games or series which I am not interested in.

for now I guess I'll just prioritize my limit of 12 tags for game store [queue] exclusion.

[MMrSelfDestructt]

I agree with you

[Eridyne]

Agreed as well.

If the tag database had tag implications, i.e., "turn-based strategy" implies "turn-based" and "strategy", or "MMORPG" implies "multiplayer" and "RPG", a dozen tags might work. Unfortunately, it doesn't, and tag redundancy (and outright poor tagging) is rampant.

I commonly run across games that neatly fit a genre, but only have one of several or many relevant tags that apply to the genre and its subgenres. If I want it all gone, "tactics" games, for example, I have to include four or five tags just to filter out that smallish genre.
Add another four to six to filter out, say, sports and driving games, and I only get a couple to use to refine what I like, after blocking out the genres I have no interest in whatsoever.

Steam really needs to both refine the tags and expand or simply remove the limit.

[Talithmara]

I generally like to play a bit of everything, but I have genres I don't want. Generally stuff like MOBAs, Card Games, and so on.

Even a generalist like me can't get by with just 12. Seriously. I wish I was joking. For example, I'm prone to quickly getting sick of memes because they never die and drag on forever, so memey games led me to put "Memes" on my list. I love dark atmospheres and hate jumpscares, so I ended up putting "Horror" on the list, to differentiate the two.

That said, I don't want the "implications" idea; I dislike the sheer grind of most MMORPGs and needing to deal with players, but like more story-driven (OR even better: Character-driven ones, where they have selfish goals and aren't saving the world) single player ones, and I'd like to be able to block some without all. I also love smaller scale tactics games, but generally have all the 4x games I'd ever need, which is also a form of turn based strategy.

Maybe bump it up to 30-50 for now? You know, especially for tags like VR for those of us without VR equipment, so our time isn't wasted?

[Start_Running]

If you need more exclusions tthn is allowed then the discovery Queue is not the tool for you.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by bumpie:

Steam just wants to throw as much ꌚꑛꂑ꓅ as they can at you because there is an unreasonable amount of utterly useless titles that no one will ever play in their catalog. The problem is so egregious and the motivation so obvious that until it is fixed I will no have no choice but to ignore the queue altogether and wait until enough hype for a new or engaging product surfaces elsewhere. Pathetic.

Really? You needed to revive a three year old thread for that? Really?
Than by all means don't use the queue. It's A tool to discover new games. Not the alpha and omega. You are more than encouraged to use other sources, too.

[Tohawk]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by bumpie:

Steam just wants to throw as much ꌚꑛꂑ꓅ as they can at you because there is an unreasonable amount of utterly useless titles that no one will ever play in their catalog. The problem is so egregious and the motivation so obvious that until it is fixed I will no have no choice but to ignore the queue altogether and wait until enough hype for a new or engaging product surfaces elsewhere. Pathetic.

Really? You needed to revive a three year old thread for that? Really?
Than by all means don't use the queue. It's A tool to discover new games. Not the alpha and omega. You are more than encouraged to use other sources, too.

No, it is a good tool to find games. It just needs the ability to exclude more tags.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Tohawk:

Originally posted by cinedine:

Really? You needed to revive a three year old thread for that? Really?
Than by all means don't use the queue. It's A tool to discover new games. Not the alpha and omega. You are more than encouraged to use other sources, too.

No, it is a good tool to find games. It just needs the ability to exclude more tags.

Yes it is. But not if you have a very narrow mind of what you are looking for.
As Tito says: sometimes it's easier to just ask for a salat than to have your waiter recommend you something that is not pizza, not pasta, not fish, not steak, not soup, not chicken, not a burger, not game, doesn't contain beans or garlic, nor onions, not dairy, ... and don't roll your eyes at me and recommend me a water. I am the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ customer. Also, I don't like soda.

[CyberRiot]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Yes it is. But not if you have a very narrow mind of what you are looking for.
As Tito says: sometimes it's easier to just ask for a salat than to have your waiter recommend you something . . .

I'm not ready to ask the waiter just yet. I want to have a look through the 250,000 page menu first. I do want to see the salads (But not the caesar), but also the non-lentil soups, sandwiches that aren't on pumpernickel bread, or have mayonnaise, and the entrees that include steak, pork, or chicken, but not all three. Also, there are about 10 different nuts and berries that I am allergic to, which I'd like to exclude, but there are some nuts and berries that I can have, so I don't want to remove them globally.

Once I get this list loaded, I will probably see a bunch of things on there that I don't like, and I know there will be more of them on following pages, so I'd like to add those to the exclusion list on the fly (like using a "-" in a boolean search on ebay or the like)

Sometimes I don't know what kind of game I want, but I always know know that I don't want.

This isn't just for the discovery queue, but for the advanced store search as well. Put a context tab next to tags, and let us use that to exclude them from the current search.

[Sleepy Yoshi]

I can actually understand this. I mean it takes me 5 tags excluded just to eliminate all the variations of 'platformer' from the queue.

[Fernando]

i am agree to you

[ChristOurLife]

i agree on that

[timkennedy4448]

Yes please increase the number of exclusion tags

[[?]legit]

Yes that would be nice.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by CyberRiot:

Sometimes I don't know what kind of game I want, but I always know know that I don't want.

Seems to be the issue lies with youur searching method rather than you the limitation. If you have that narrow an interest space...find a search method zeroes in on that space.

Focus more effort on telling the store what you like as opposed to what you don't like.

[Tohawk]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Seems to be the issue lies with youur searching method rather than you the limitation. If you have that narrow an interest space...find a search method zeroes in on that space.

Focus more effort on telling the store what you like as opposed to what you don't like.

I have worked through thousands of games in my discovery queue and it still doesn't know.