How to hide crappy games from store page?

[Excalibrrr]

Hi, Im wondering if there is a way to make all those boatloads of crappy cartoony games disappear from my store page. I only would like to buy good games. Thanks!

[cinedine]

Don't buy them. Don't play them. Don't keep opening their store pages.

I barely see those games on my front page.

[Excalibrrr]

Want I want is to not have to look at them. My front page is completely piled with cartoony junk and I dont even like those games, so Im not sure why it keeps showing them to me.

[American Dove Mitten]

can we stop pretending that Steam algorithm can decide what you like to play?

There can be 20 games from different genres with same tags.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Edit your preferences here:

https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences

If you did that already and it's still not good enough for you, then oh well.

[Radene]

Publicado originalmente por Sorokonojka:

can we stop pretending that Steam algorithm can decide what you like to play?

There can be 20 games from different genres with same tags.

Tags are user generated, so if those are screwed up, blame the community, not Steam. Oddly enough, I think there's a significant correlation between people who tag a, say, pony game, as "psychological horror", and people who complain about tags being out of whack.

[American Dove Mitten]

Publicado originalmente por Radene:

Publicado originalmente por Sorokonojka:

can we stop pretending that Steam algorithm can decide what you like to play?

There can be 20 games from different genres with same tags.

Tags are user generated, so if those are screwed up, blame the community, not Steam. Oddly enough, I think there's a significant correlation between people who tag a, say, pony game, as "psychological horror", and people who complain about tags being out of whack.

User tags, gameplay time and reviews can be manipulated and they are being manipulated all the time. I can't blame people for being people. But I can blame Valve for recommending me games based on those attributes.

[cinedine]

Publicado originalmente por Sorokonojka:

can we stop pretending that Steam algorithm can decide what you like to play?

There can be 20 games from different genres with same tags.

Can we stop pretending that this is what the algorithm is for?
Steam's recommendation algorithm works like any other recommendation algorithm known to mankind - finding stuff similar to the stuff you are looking at/have looked at. And in my book it's a doing a good job.
Of course it could do far better if the data wouldn't be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. But that's on the "community".

[Radene]

Publicado originalmente por Sorokonojka:

I can't blame people for being people.

Then why are you doing it? What do you think "Valve" is made of? Strudel?

[Start_Running]

Publicado originalmente por Sorokonojka:

can we stop pretending that Steam algorithm can decide what you like to play?

There can be 20 games from different genres with same tags.

It seems to do a good enough job for me.

[Excalibrrr]

The problem isnt so much what Steam is recommending for me, it's that the "New Releases" and "Specials" sections under the main store page are littered with so much junk that I dont even want to bother looking for new games anymore. Perhaps a button would be useful for each game that people can select that might say "Is this game a piece of ♥♥♥♥?" and then if it is, it doesnt show up for sale anymore.

[Radene]

Publicado originalmente por CJ:

Perhaps a button would be useful for each game that people can select that might say "Is this game a piece of ♥♥♥♥?" and then if it is, it doesnt show up for sale anymore.

Yeah I don't see what could possibly go wrong with that. *snrk*

[Start_Running]

Publicado originalmente por CJ:

The problem isnt so much what Steam is recommending for me, it's that the "New Releases" and "Specials" sections under the main store page are littered with so much junk that I dont even want to bother looking for new games anymore.

So you admit its that you're essentiallly dumster diving (ie searching what ammounts to the entire store and ordering them by release date or by what's cheapest).

Of course you're going to see a lot of crap you have no interest in!

WHat amazes is me is not so much that people expect such searches to be fruitful but rather that they keep doing it over and over again.

[Grima The Fell Dragon]

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

Publicado originalmente por CJ:

The problem isnt so much what Steam is recommending for me, it's that the "New Releases" and "Specials" sections under the main store page are littered with so much junk that I dont even want to bother looking for new games anymore.

So you admit its that you're essentiallly dumster diving (ie searching what ammounts to the entire store and ordering them by release date or by what's cheapest).

Of course you're going to see a lot of crap you have no interest in!

WHat amazes is me is not so much that people expect such searches to be fruitful but rather that they keep doing it over and over again.

Maybe the issue is the fact is you don't ever really know what you want if its outside your preferred genre. I mean if I like a particular series I'll most likely like the next unless they pull a Dynasty Warriors 9 and screw it up. But if you are looking for something new you may know what kind of experience you want.

But tags don't really narrow down the poor quality(personal opinion) games.

[Start_Running]

Publicado originalmente por Grima The Fell Dragon:

Maybe the issue is the fact is you don't ever really know what you want if its outside your preferred genre. I mean if I like a particular series I'll most likely like the next unless they pull a Dynasty Warriors 9 and screw it up. But if you are looking for something new you may know what kind of experience you want.

Genre's have little to do with it if you know yourself well enough. And if you're genuinely searching for something outside your usual then one would thing a more open and curious mind would be preferrable. The sort of mind that asks, 'What is it people would like about this game?'
Hell most people who got into the FNAF series didn't know they wanted FNAF until they saw the screenshots and trailers and that was enough to make them say "I need that!"

[Excalibrrr]

Yeah no doubt, Steam has a pretty decent way of presenting games. I dont mind that there are games showing up that I'm not interested in, it's the pure volume that I take issue with. There are just so many that I could never want to buy and would never be interested in that it feels more like work than pleasure just to sift through them all.