Steam Sales 2015

Post by wnevets » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 3:44 PM UTC

otakucode wrote: post #82

wnevets wrote: post #39

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> I believe discoverability is now horribly broken and the queue and recommendations features both fail to mitigate the issue. I agree, my queue is littered with genres I have zero interest in. After the 10th anime dating sim I marked not interested in, it should prevent those games in the future.

Steam makes it pretty clear that your queue and recommendations are absolutely NOT based upon your preferences at all. They even tell you what it is based on - a game is popular, or it's new. Big publishers might be displeased with a solution that used by-now-standard recommendation tech. It certainly wouldn't recommend any AAA titles to me as even though I have 1000+ games in my library (which I never play... I migh…

Isn't that what the front page and every other media outlet is for?

Where is it made clear "my queue" isn't based on my preferences?

Post by speeder » Thu, Jan 07, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

jdcarter wrote: post #55

speeder wrote: post #42

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I am both a gamedev and a avid game player, of some niche and strange genres included. I found out that Steam catalog, despite "opening the floodgates" is quite limited on some genres, some niche genres have the nicest games don't even volunteer for steam (usually because the nicest games have perfectionist devs that don't want to be "another shitty early access", for example Starsector, the game has been being sold…

So where do you go to discover non-Steam games? These days I only browse for new games on Steam, and I know I'm missing out on some great stuff, but I don't know where else to look.

Some genres have forums or sites dedicated to them (for example spacesimcentral.com)

And there is a subreddit called gamingsuggestions that has great people over there to suggest stuff!

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