Block specific developers or publishers from Steam store and discovery queue, etc.

[Spacecatface]

I see people asking for this feature since 2018, but here's another one, I guess.
I would like to be able to block certain publishers or developers individually so they don't appear in my Steam store, recommendations or discovery queue, etc.

It's great that Steam store provides a market for smaller devs/publishers, but the downside is that there is now a lot of clutter, and often I come across certain actors that I would like to just entirely avoid having anything to do with;
either because of the quality of what they publish, or more commonly because of their business practices, or how they conduct themselves.

I'm aware you can kind of do it to a certain degree IF they have setup a publisher page, but that isn't a solution IMO.

[robgw3]

Not only is there a "lot of clutter" but you now have a bunch of developers who are making quick little games that should cost $5 at most, but are charging $60+ for them. You can recognize these by the fact that they have 6-12 games that are all the same price.

Like this one for example which just came up on my discovery queue https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Whitehole%20Games

These games are not worth that price and I have no intention of ever buying them, but there is no way to block them because the tags are the same as other games. I should not have to have 1/4 of my discovery queue or more taken up by these quick money grabs that don't actually provide any real content...

[HikariLight]

There is an ignore button on the games store page.

[robgw3]

HikariLight původně napsal:

There is an ignore button on the games store page.

That ONLY ignores that game, it does NOT help when people are loading a dozen cheap little games. There NEEDS to be an option to block developers.

Anyone who says "But what if I don't want to block all their games" is just silly since they can instead block the games they don't want to see. But in my case I don't want to see ANY of the games from these developers cause they aren't even worth $5 yet they are charging $60+ for these games and they have dozens of them. I have seen at least 5 different developers with the exact same pattern.

[Tito Shivan]

There should be an option to block developers/publishers, even when they've not set up their respective pub/dev pages (Fun fact these are just reskinned curator pages). Far too many devs and publishers (Big and small) do not set them up thus avoiding the chance to have them blocked.

[robgw3]

Tito Shivan původně napsal:

There should be an option to block developers/publishers, even when they've not set up their respective pub/dev pages (Fun fact these are just reskinned curator pages). Far too many devs and publishers (Big and small) do not set them up thus avoiding the chance to have them blocked.

If they are good devs then they shouldn't have to worry about being blocked. It's only the bad devs that should have to worry about people blocking them.

I'd much rather block a dozen or so devs than hundreds of games, AND have to block more every time those devs release another junk one.

[MoonC A T]

I think the Dev/Publisher info should be between the release date and price so I can see the game, but choose to ignore it manually when doing a store search.

[Spacecatface]

robgw3 původně napsal:

HikariLight původně napsal:

There is an ignore button on the games store page.

That ONLY ignores that game, it does NOT help when people are loading a dozen cheap little games. There NEEDS to be an option to block developers.

That is pretty much the exact thing.
There are too many developers/publishers who now flood the store with low-rent junk, and some of them try to be "clever" to the point it's sitting on the edge between cash grab and scam.
It's very easy to recognize them, but there is no effective tool to get rid of them.
If Steam wants to let these guys be on Steam? Ok, that's their business.
But at least give me effective tools so I don't have to waste time sifting through this garbage.

[robgw3]

Spacecatface původně napsal:

robgw3 původně napsal:

That ONLY ignores that game, it does NOT help when people are loading a dozen cheap little games. There NEEDS to be an option to block developers.

That is pretty much the exact thing.
There are too many developers/publishers who now flood the store with low-rent junk, and some of them try to be "clever" to the point it's sitting on the edge between cash grab and scam.
It's very easy to recognize them, but there is no effective tool to get rid of them.
If Steam wants to let these guys be on Steam? Ok, that's their business.
But at least give me effective tools so I don't have to waste time sifting through this garbage.

Exactly. We need to have some way to block what we don't want to see. Blocking tags doesn't work because some of these games may have tags in common with actual games. Like if one of those junk games was tagged with RPG and we blocked that then Final Fantasy games would be blocked too...