Need a Language Preference option to exclude items that are not in our Primary + Secondary list.

[Overwatch]

Currently (Dec 2018) we have the option to select a primary language in our preferences. Plus the option to select from a number of secondary languages.

These are "Opt-in" options.

Why don't we have an "Opt-out" option?

Nearly every discovery queue I look at has 1-2 games I cannot play because they are not in a language I can read. And Steam KNOWS this, because it WARNS me in bright orange that...

English language not supported
This product does not have support for your local language. Please review the supported language list below before purchasing

If you wish to see games in other languages, you can adjust your language preferences.

OK. So Steam understands that this game is not offered in any of the languages I understand. Why do I not have a Language Preference to "Exclude items not available in my language"?

It is only a minor waste of time on my part to click "ignore" on those games and hit next. But for YOU, the Discovery Queue is a marketing tool. You WANT to show me 10 games I can play, so I will buy them from you. Right now you are wasting that valuable space by showing me 1-2 items that I have ZERO chance of buying.

[fxds]

It's a similar situation with games that require a VR headset. The general store prefs allow users to exclude them but the Discovery Queue settings don't have that option and don't honor the general store setting, so the Queue frequently ends up trying to sell VR-only games to the 99.24% of Steam users who literally can't play them because they don't have the required hardware.

Though in that case I suppose Valve don't feel they're "wasting" the Queue space. They're probably hoping they'll tempt users into buying one of their VR headsets. But as far as I'm aware they don't make foreign language instruction software so you're right that it seems like a guaranteed complete waste of time for evenyone involved.

[IDMooseMan]

I have set "Language Preferences" to English, and have excluded "VR", "Virtual Reality", and other tags. I have also set these exclusions in the discovery queue preferences area for "Discovery Queue" and "New On Steam", yet I still see games with these tags.

Since I am able to set these exclusions and preferences, why does Steam/Valve continue showing me items in languages I cannot read/write/speak and require hardware, (Virtual Reality gear), I do not own? By showing me items containing/requiring languages/hardware I excluded, my time is wasted and it makes me, as a consumer, inclined to believe Steam/Valve is not really listening to me.

[Overwatch]

Well, the VR exclusion does (or did when I set it last year) say that it will help to filter out MOST of the VR games. But it WILL still show them to you.

The point I tired to make in the OP was that the Discovery Queue exists to drive sales. It's there to put things in front of customers that they have a higher than average chance of buying. But being unable to exclude items that we cannot understand is a literal waste of space. ESPECIALLY during the sales, when we are more likely to go through EXACTLY 3 queues a day.

[Tymgosi]

Was about to create my own post and pretty much ask for the same thing. Good to know I'm not alone in it.

[IDMooseMan]

Agreed. A lot of my Discovery Queue items do not support English. I "Ignore" those immediately and move on. I have seen up to five games in my Discovery Queue. I will not buy a game that does not support English. I don't know how to convince Steam/Valve of that. They can waste all of the space they want putting non-English games in front of me. I will not buy games containing only languages that I do not speak.

[Nimbull]

I don't really want to get non English titles in my discovery queue as well. The configuration screen offers no options to filter those out.

[IDMooseMan]

You can set your primary/preferred languages in your profile, but the "Discovery Queue" seems to be a marketing tool for what Steam/Valve is trying to sell. I have not found any way to get around it, other than to use the "Ignore" button. Maybe Steam/Valve will take the hint, but I doubt it. I ignore the non-English games and move on.

[aphfid]

lol Agreed. One would think this was an obvious option people might like.

[Overwatch]

It has little to do with benefiting users. The option would benefit Steam more than us. If we want to keep seeing game recommendations we can always just generate another queue. But if we don't, the only party that is missing out here is Steam itself.

[Shadoward]

Still an issue I have daily. My queue constantly has games that are only available in Chinese, and not English, despite English being the only selected language in my preferences. I contacted Steam Support about the issue before and was pretty much told there was no solution. I'm just going to stop wasting my time with the discovery queue.

[Azu]

I tend to get that problem too but what I find even more annoying is almost every guide on the front page for a game I play is either Russian or Chinese. Would be nice to filter those out from the start throughout the entire steam client.

[Heliosaki]

There should also be an option to exclude DLC.