Custom library sorting

[GRIMM]

I've mentioned this before, and I guess I'll mention it again. Maybe one day someone at Valve will see this!

Custom library sorting NEEDS to happen.

What I mean is when you have a series of games that appear out of order, you should have the ability to sort them as you see fit. Take Final Fantasy for example. anyone who owns all the games on Steam will know just how out of order they are. Type 0 appearing in the middle of the series. Lighting Returns appearing way off somewhere else, due to the title starting with L instead of F. Dissidia and World of Final Fantasy also. Just out of whack. That is just 1 example. There are tons of other franchises like this also.

I use a program called Playnite which has this feature built in, and the library looks much better as a result. Can sort any way you want basically.

And sorry that this is a repost.

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[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Didn't you already post in a thread about custom sorting?



Edit: Found it... https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/3/1627412171704903708/#c1627412171712505334

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Gonna copy and re-paste my suggestion for the option to make the display and sort names separately user-editable on the user's local machine:



I've been suggesting a method -- already currently implemented in GOG Galaxy -- which allows the user to edit both the display name and the sorting name of a game on their local machine's client.

This way, you can get the names to display in sensible manners (such as removing all-caps or ™ or ® symbols), because you can set it to display however you want, and then separately, you can can also have an internally-defined sorting name that puts things in the correct order.

Here's an example of how it would work:

* "FINAL FANTASY VIII" - display as "Final Fantasy VIII", sort as "Final Fantasy 08"
* "FINAL FANTASY IX" - display as "Final Fantasy IX", sort as "Final Fantasy 09"
* "FINAL FANTASY® XIII" - display as "Final Fantasy XIII", sort as "Final Fantasy 13 part 1"
* "LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII" - display as "Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII", sort as "Final Fantasy 13 part 3"
* "FINAL FANTASY XIV Online" - display as "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn", sort as "Final Fantasy 14"

Steam already has different sorting and display order (e.g. it ignores initial articles), for what it's worth. But neither of those is currently user-editable (at least in any convenient way).

[GRIMM]

Publicado originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Didn't you already post in a thread about custom sorting?

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Edit: Found it... https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/3/1627412171704903708/#c1627412171712505334

Yes, and these topics always get buried for far less practical stuff.

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JD

[GRIMM]

Quint, that is pretty much what I do in playnite. Though I did a little easier sorting, and just name them Final Fantasy 01, Final Fantasy 02, etc... And for the games like 13 part 1 and 2 and so on, I went Final Fantasy 13, Final Fantasy 13.1, etc...

seems to work good. And since it's just for sorting purposes, it does not hurt to shave off some stuff from the characters.

[Θωμάς76]

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So many times people have asked for this simple feaure
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/search/?gidforum=882959061469928464&include_deleted=1&q=custom+sort+by