There was science and measurement and intentionality behind each of the choices that went into this menu, they definitely were not arbitrary. But it's equal parts art & science. And part of it being a Lab experiment is... maybe it's wrong! Give us your feedback!
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The big #1 take home for the big browse update for indie devs.... What are your chance of being #1 on the steam front page? #2? #10? Even for a day? Not good right? Now... what are your chances of being #1 in your category? #2? #10? Even for a day? That's an achievable goal!
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And hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, you can BUILD from that achievable goal and relay it into something bigger. Hopefully in a near future where this graduates from the Lab, steam customers will start bookmarking their favorite category homepages & new niches will blossom.
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"BUT LARS!" "SOME OF THE TAGS ARE WRONG!" Okay, I can do nothing about that on Steam, but tell me about it for GameDataCrunch, where I'm running my OWN classification experiments, based on expert human classification using fancy efficiency tools:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3hUXiZ_RooZa7_R4fEVLEKfK0ld7PGezUzlMbs3l00Lcxwg/viewform …
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If you made it all the way to the end of this thread AND you think this feature is good then PLEASE PLEASE: 1) If you have an email for a steam rep EMAIL THEM RIGHT NOW AND TELL THEM 2) If you don't, tweet at
@steamworks and TELL THEM 3) Leave a comment on the blog post1 reply 0 retweets 18 likesShow this thread -
The end of the blog post has the full design process. I'm really glad to see this made it through to the final draft. It outlines all of the behind the scenes stuff, and explains how everything I and everyone else at Steam Labs did culminated in this projectpic.twitter.com/jS2ea7TEsw
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Replying to @larsiusprime @Steamworks
congrats, that's a very nice thing (I'll post also on Steamworks forums :P). One question, if a game rightfully belongs to two genres, let's say like my Loren (Visual Novel and RPG) how are the tags weighted (if they are!).
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like, it could be top selling in VN and not in RPG based on other games tags performance, each tag has a sort of "percentage" of impact to determine the rankings, etc ?
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Replying to @WinterwolvesG @Steamworks
AFAIK they're just straightforward filters. If your game is legitimately two things and the tags are prominent it will appear in both places. Use the tag wizard.
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Don't put a bunch of tags on your game that aren't accurate just to make you show up in different places, tho, or you'll hurt your wishlists & review score with broken customer expectations.
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yes I'm only using the tag wizard now (limited to 20 tags) :) thanks
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