Quiz to find your game

[Blazera87]

Steam already has an advanced search feature for browsing its library of games. Why not make it even more fun by making it a quiz? Many people like to take personality quizzes online for fun. A large amount of people already take game personality quizzes online to find out which games might be right for them. Why not use this already active market to increase sales and meet people's needs at the same time?

If steam already uses this idea in its recommendations, why not make it even more obvious by suggesting that the customer like more games, rate ones she/he has played etc. in order to produce more accurate results.

(I have suggested more ideas to steam than to anywhere else. If they ever listen and accept one of my ideas, I will be ecstatic.) Thanks!

[Black Blade]

Well to be honest i think these may be nice, but i think its something that will be done better if it was made by one of the Steam users and not the Steam staff.. at least not officially

[Blazera87]

Originally posted by Black Blade:

Well to be honest i think these may be nice, but i think its something that will be done better if it was made by one of the Steam users and not the Steam staff.. at least not officially

Steam probably has these types of algorithms since they already reccommend games. I saw an online quiz yesterday that had yes-no answers and then a sliding scale from 1-10 of importance. Though simple, I think this could be one of the best formats I've ever seen in a quiz, because it could be so accurate.

Add that to Steam's existing but somewhat lacking recommendation system, and people could really find all the games that were "made for them." Then encourage feedback to promote further development in the genres we love.

[Black Blade]

Originally posted by Tony:

Steam probably has these types of algorithms since they already reccommend games. I saw an online quiz yesterday that had yes-no answers and then a sliding scale from 1-10 of importance. Though simple, I think this could be one of the best formats I've ever seen in a quiz, because it could be so accurate.

Add that to Steam's existing but somewhat lacking recommendation system, and people could really find all the games that were "made for them." Then encourage feedback to promote further development in the genres we love.

Well first i do not think they have these algorithms yet, Never even seen it done no were on Steam
Also i think that it is something that is hard to do, as we are talking abut controllers + the feeling the game gives + the type, as if you like one Sandbox game dose not mean you like another one
what we have recommended now never seem to work too well, and to be honest i think maybe over time they may improve it with Wishlist and tags to make it work better

And i think that also works better then any quiz

[sinisterwyvern]

Yeah, using something more like Pandora where it plays similar things based on what you like. Having a wide enough array and correct tags would be important to this.

[Ineffable Anathema]

Maybe something based more on tags and genres..."quiz" gives me a creepy "facebook Which Insert_TV_Series_X_Here Character Are You" vibe.

[Arucard]

Yeah, this is kind of covered by the new tagging system though. You could search for certain tags (FPS, horror, etc.).

[Judith712]

This is a really good idea, but as stated above, the new tagging system basically does that.

[Fork_Q2]

Originally posted by Tony:

Steam already has an advanced search feature for browsing its library of games. Why not make it even more fun by making it a quiz? Many people like to take personality quizzes online for fun. A large amount of people already take game personality quizzes online to find out which games might be right for them. Why not use this already active market to increase sales and meet people's needs at the same time?

If steam already uses this idea in its recommendations, why not make it even more obvious by suggesting that the customer like more games, rate ones she/he has played etc. in order to produce more accurate results.

(I have suggested more ideas to steam than to anywhere else. If they ever listen and accept one of my ideas, I will be ecstatic.) Thanks!

Why don't you make this game? There is already browser games based on Steam's tagging system.

http://tags.steamdb.info/

[Blazera87]

Originally posted by ✦ᗩмвєя✦:

This is a really good idea, but as stated above, the new tagging system basically does that.

I think the tag system could be great if the user interface was better. It feels like diving into a pile of leaves and grabbing one in the dark and hoping it meets all your needs. That is where the quiz/feedback system would come in handy. All the elements already exist. It just needs to be brought together to a more navigable and cohesive whole.

[Wavehead]

Originally posted by Tony:

Originally posted by ✦ᗩмвєя✦:

This is a really good idea, but as stated above, the new tagging system basically does that.

I think the tag system could be great if the user interface was better. It feels like diving into a pile of leaves and grabbing one in the dark and hoping it meets all your needs. That is where the quiz/feedback system would come in handy. All the elements already exist. It just needs to be brought together to a more navigable and cohesive whole.

To build on that, I think that the quiz system could do something to help with the tag recommendations. Simply by stating which tags interest you in a quiz format, it can help you to find games like that in the recommendation section. I really wouldn't say that the tags system fixes this, because all it does is let you say "I like this one feature" and shows you all games with it. Even if you use multiple to narrow your search, it gets oddly specific to the point where you probably already know which game you're looking for if you're using all those tags. Because maybe I don't know if I want to find an FPS or TPS-over-the-shoulder right now, but I know I like both of those factors. I don't want to blindly search all of the FPSs, nor do I want my specified search to maybe leave out something like FPS by including TPS from the tags if maybe I would actually like that.

With the recommended games section, it wouldn't require being specific or vague: it would take tags that it already knew you liked and show you games that use different combinations of those tags to give a custom tailored selection of games that you'd probably like. The current system is good, but it's like Google: It takes this information just based off of random information the system has on you. Google doens't ask you what exactly you want them to advertise to you, because you don't want them to advertise to you at all. So they do that discreetly. However Steam shouldn't be so discreet about it since the whole point of the steam store is (or at least should be) to find you the games that you want. So why shouldn't they be more candid and blatant about their audience targetting? This quiz, or whatever you want to call it, would be a good way of letting the user tell the source what they want to see. Simple as that.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I have a hunch that with this big-data approach Steam will eventually have something like an okcupid-like database of information on people's tastes and their correlations.

[Fork_Q2]

Originally posted by Quint the Angry Seagull:

I have a hunch that with this big-data approach Steam will eventually have something like an okcupid-like database of information on people's tastes and their correlations.

They already have a database of what games we play and buy - it's used for the "Recommended for you" page. It's not going to be as advanced as OKCupid however, as there are only a few thousand games to choose from as opposed to millions of potential partners.

[Ineffable Anathema]

Originally posted by Quint the Angry Seagull:

I have a hunch that with this big-data approach Steam will eventually have something like an okcupid-like database of information on people's tastes and their correlations.

Those sites are creepy.

Also, similar tastes does not = compatibility, whether in games, food, or potential partners.