Tags aren't useful when people tag games with everything

[d i n k y ㅇㅅㅇ]

A huge issue currently, in my personal opinion, is that searching for games gives you multiple suggestions that just DO NOT FIT THE TAG!

It seems like players and developers alike are tagging their games with as many tags as possible, from a dev perspective this makes sense as it wont exclude your game, but from a consumer perspective finding appropriate games is getting more difficult.

It seems like people use tags in the absolute vaguest way possible, tagging some games which are clearly just simple games with no real deep story engagement as lore-rich or etc. Occasionally I even come across games that aren't even close to being what the tag says! It's getting really stupid, tagging a single player only game as co-op for example.

Reporting tags wont work properly because most people won't want to spend their time cleaning up tags from people who are trying to use tags like hashtags on instagram.

[Crazy Tiger]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย About47Pandas:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Crazy Tiger:

Seems correct: https://store.steampowered.com/app/459220/Halo_Wars_Definitive_Edition/

;)

Halo- as in the first person shooter. Halo 2, halo 3, halo 4, halo 5, halo 3 ODST. That halo. Pretty sure when people refer to Halo Wars, they say Halo Wars. Halo the Master Chief collection-- is not an RTS and if it were labeled as such--- it would be inaccurate.

I know. Hence the ";)" at the bottom of the post.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Tito Shivan:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย d i n k y ㅇㅅㅇ:

If anybody know best what tags should apply to their game it's devs

We've kind of forgotten how tags were requested as the way developers were actually tagging their games was pretty lackluster and enough people felt the need for a system to add proper tags themselves.

Thought so, thank you for clarifying.

[Brian9824]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย About47Pandas:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย brian9824:

Especially as Halo has multiplayer where real time strategy comes into play,

Yep, the words real time strategy is vague, as is the terms RPG.

I mean football players are using real time strategy calling out plays and options strategically in real time. Gamers however use that term to define a specific class of games. So as I said its easy to see how people take the literal meaning of real time strategy not knowing that gamers use those words to describe something much more specific. Not everyone on steam is a long term gamer or has even played video games before...

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย About47Pandas:

The words Real, Time and Strategy-- Sure they have meaning, but Real time strategy as a genre is something totally different.

Yep but tages aren't Genre's, thats one of your mistakes.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย About47Pandas:

An RPG is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character -- Id also agree that Halo is an RPG.

By that definition wrestling, football, pacman, etc are all RPG"s as the player controls the action of a char.......

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย About47Pandas:

And yeah- I dont get to decide, but Mods do- "Please note that Administrators/Moderators reserve the right to change/edit/delete/move/merge any content at any time if they feel it is inappropriate, abusive, or incorrectly categorized." https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4045-USHJ-3810

you know this-

Yes i know that, which is why I said it previously. Not sure if your having a hard time following the conversation, you keep repeating stuff I already said...

[About47Pandas]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย brian9824:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย About47Pandas:

Yep, the words real time strategy is vague, as is the terms RPG.

I mean football players are using real time strategy calling out plays and options strategically in real time. Gamers however use that term to define a specific class of games.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย About47Pandas:

The words Real, Time and Strategy-- Sure they have meaning, but Real time strategy as a genre is something totally different.

Yep but tages aren't Genre's, thats one of your mistakes.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย About47Pandas:

An RPG is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character -- Id also agree that Halo is an RPG.

By that definition wrestling, football, pacman, etc are all RPG"s as the player controls the action of a char.......


"In a real-time strategy game, the participants position structures and maneuver units under their control to secure areas of the map and/or destroy their opponents' assets" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย About47Pandas:

And yeah- I dont get to decide, but Mods do- "Please note that Administrators/Moderators reserve the right to change/edit/delete/move/merge any content at any time if they feel it is inappropriate, abusive, or incorrectly categorized." https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4045-USHJ-3810

you know this-

Yes i know that, which is why I said it previously. Not sure if your having a hard time following the conversation, you keep repeating stuff I already said...

I guess they are vague if you are not familiar with Video game Genres. -- Those people probably won't be applying tags. So sure-- I guess there is a guy on a couch somewhere saying football uses "real time strategy" to describe them in real time... making strategic choices... then get odd looks from his buddies.

Within the context of video games, if you tag something as difficult, -- obviously that isnt a genre-- its a descriptive tag. But If you label it with the tag of "RPG" then clearly you are labeling it with the genre of RPG-- Lol-- Not sure how that isn't clear.

[Crazy Tiger]

The RPG tag nowadays also gets used to describe certain mechanics in games that aren't actual RPGs..

That used to be the same with Roguelike, but that one nowadays has the Roguelite tag for games that merely has some roguelike mechanics. Though they still get confused.

[Brian9824]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Crazy Tiger:

The RPG tag nowadays also gets used to describe certain mechanics in games that aren't actual RPGs..

That used to be the same with Roguelike, but that one nowadays has the Roguelite tag for games that merely has some roguelike mechanics. Though they still get confused.

Yep, I remember having many arguments over what constitutes an RPG (ahh nerd memories) with my friends. It's like asking people Kirk or Picard. The genre's are blending, shifting, and merging together and new sub-genre's are forming and being re-defined.