Steam has changed the official tags you’ll find attached to games on Valve’s digital storefront.<\/p>\n
Removing 28, adding 17, and merging and updating “a handful of other” tags, Valve said the changes come “with the goal of helping players identify the games that best fit their interests, and helping Steam generate more appropriate recommendations.”<\/p>\n
“Tags help developers better describe their game to players, but also help Steam understand what kind of game it is and show it accordingly to players via recommendations,” the company wrote on a blog post. “Tags are also the foundation upon which each of the store hubs are built, allowing players to find all of the games tagged with their favorite genre, theme, style, or other relevant context.<\/p>\n
“Tags can be applied to a game by the developer, by players with non-limited accounts, and also by Steam moderators. This means that a game’s tags can shift over time as more customers play the game and contribute their perspective on what tags are most relevant for each game. Over time, the types of games that exist and the way customers look at games changes too \u2014 so today, we have a list of changes to our current set of tags.”<\/p>\n
Valve said that it doesn’t often remove tags from Steam, which is why it’s “built up quite a list.” “The set that we’ve removed today are done so because they no longer serve a good purpose for establishing connections between games or describing unique and useful elements of content in the game,” it explained. “Many of these tags have alternative options on Steam that better describe the content, and already have a high degree of overlap in application.” Tags that are subjective \u2013 Well-written, masterpiece \u2013 have also been ditched, along with any that apply to a specific IP, such as Lego and Warhammer 40,000.<\/p>\n
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