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[SneakyStephan]

Aside from all the bad tags and joke tags, here's a few good ones.

Seeing x rebirth in there reminds me of how buggy shitty performing crappy animated it turned out and hurts my soul

 

[The Technomancer]

Seems legit.

Makes total sense actually. In Dreamhouse Party Barbie and her friends are trapped in this robotic house that monitors them and has control over the doors and windows and everything inside the house. Its clearly an automated vault system designed to try and protect some of the last living humans

 

[Frolow]

At least Gone Home has proper tags

This is perfect.

 

[GuardianE]

Community involvement is great and all but whoever at Valve developed this and released it and didn't see how letting anyone tag a game with practically anything was a disastrous idea is an idiot. Every dev whose game is now branded with stuff like "garbage" and "pretentious" on their own store page and in search results ought to be sending some justifiably angry emails to their Valve contacts right now.

What if a game is garbage and pretentious?

 

[FartOfWar]

The tumblr is hilarious (looks like that's the source of many above images).

The idea is sound but the Tumblr itself is far from hilarious. The comments of whoever runs it are so humorless its sickening.

 

[inm8num2]

The idea is sound but the Tumblr itself is far from hilarious. The comments of whoever runs it are so humorless its sickening.

I think it's dead... nope.avi?

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

Good old Valve, getting increasingly stupid as time goes on. What the fuck did they expect to happen with gamers tagging games?

 

[Archie]

 

[jediyoshi]

What if a game is garbage and pretentious?

Then leave a review.

Why don't we just get the ability to add tags to other Steam users and have those prominently displayed on their profile? What could go wrong!

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

I LOL'ed.

 

[dani_dc]

Welp. I don't think this is gonna work.

Well that's just misleading, lots of people are going to be disappointed.

 

[GuardianE]

Then leave a review.

Why don't we just get the ability to add tags to other Steam users and have those prominently displayed on their profile? What could go wrong!

Sure. Do it. Maybe it'll actually clean up some of the stupidity in the community forums.

 

[dtg]

Then leave a review.

Why don't we just get the ability to add tags to other Steam users and have those prominently displayed on their profile? What could go wrong!

I would do this all day

 

[Palmer_v1]

Then leave a review.

Why don't we just get the ability to add tags to other Steam users and have those prominently displayed on their profile? What could go wrong!

jediyoshi: #GoodIdeas #NotHL3 #NanomachinesSon

 

[Jinoru]

What if a game is garbage and pretentious?

Then it gets both!

 

[Nzyme32]

At least Gone Home has proper tags

I disagree with all of those except tmblr haha

 

[Zelias]

Ok, I just spent the last 5 minutes giggling like a schoolgirl. The FEZ tags especially made me laugh.

 

[fallout]

<Steam> here's this thing which you might like and find useful!
<Internet> derp derp nope! lolololol

 

[Smilax]

I'm not surprised of the tags for Bad Rats. GOTY all years.

 

[ArjanN]

"Indie, Platformer, Action, Rogue-like, Nanomachines son".

You know me well, Steam.

 

[Delusibeta]

Steam Tags are great. It lets you see who has no sense of humour.

 

[Pikawil]

Awww man, Valve actually removed the "gotta go fast" tag from all the Sonic games.

 

[SirNinja]

Oh god, the most popular tags for Ride to Hell Retribution... /dead

 

[Alphahawk]

You know. I see a lot of hate for this but personally, I love it. This has already let me discover games I never knew existed and I love helping to make that process easier. From what I've seen the bullshit tags are the exception, not the rule.

 

[GuardianE]

Did you guys know that you can already flag tags by moving the mouse cursor to the right of the plus sign?

I still vote to getting this system fly for a bit longer.

 

[grosvenor_92]

<Steam> here's this thing which you might like and find useful!
<Internet> derp derp nope! lolololol

Valve had to expect stuff like this I imagine

 

[Giran]

This is a great feature. I wish there was a way you could see all tags people added so you could get a better idea about the game and even vote for those. It would help a lot for games that don't get a lot of exposure. And for games with exposure too since trying to add an appropriate but slightly more complex tag at this point would require you to orchestrate it with other people to make it into the popular batch.

I also hope people will stop adding things that are displayed on the store pages anyway, like multiplayer or trading cards.

 

[jakomocha]

Didn't Valve make the same mistake of trusting the internet with the fist version of Steam Greenlight?

You would think they'd have learned their lesson by now. It's a shame that good ideas like this will never work no matter what on the internet.

 

[Htown]

I would assume that's why it's called a "Beta". So they can shake out all the nonsense.

 

[X05]

That was fast, there is an option to report tags now.

 

[ShowDog]

HL2 Episode 2 "Popular tags" /spoiler

Spoiler

Eli Dies

 

[Black Door]

Diva Dev, hahahaha

Derek Smart getting butt blasted in the forums over this is the icing on the cake

 

[Zeppelin]

Seems like Gabe caved in to the Twitter mob. "Comfy" is apparently no longer a valid tag, which actually was a useful tag. I guess it'll be reduced to useless system where you're only allowed to express how much you love a game and tag it with redundant genre information that is already available on the store page anyway.

I think many of the "bad" tags could have been avoided if they hadn't let you tag games you don't own, or games that aren't even out yet.

 

[Higgins113]

What if a game is garbage and pretentious?

They have a tag for that. It's called "indie".

 

[Lautaro]

If they are going to put spoilers there, I hope Valve at least allow me to hide the tags. I still think they should just drop this idea.

 

[jakomocha]

I think Valve should have preset tags (like "Difficult", "Fun", "Action-packed") and people can click on ones that they want to vote for. If someone has a great new tag idea they can recommend it to Valve or something.

 

[bsp]

Happy to see that lots of internet mavericks are still buttmad over Gone Home doing critically and financially well.

its just a walkin simulator xDD1!11

Today's tag update was a step in the right direction.

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

They have a tag for that. It's called "indie".

as opposed to generic iterated garbage which is called AAA.

 

[Pikawil]

Moonbase Alpha's tags do not disappoint its reputation:

 

[eot]

Yep.

One of those is actually good though :|

 

[Stitch]

yeah TS 2014 actually damn fine.

 

[ghst]

one month later, anyone still think this was a bad idea?

 

[fallout]

one month later, anyone still think this was a bad idea?

It's the funniest the Steam community has ever thought that it's been.

 

[KodeAndGame]

one month later, anyone still think this was a bad idea?

For me, it's a big heeeeelllllllllllllll no. It works great! Some good examples:


http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Local Multiplayer/
http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Rogue-like/
http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Great Soundtrack/
http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Turn-based/

And I love that these are all basically their own storefronts in a way. There are "featured" games in the carousel, there are new releases, top sellers and specials. You can narrow by platform. Honestly, the tagging system has worked out very well.

 

[Gazoinks]

one month later, anyone still think this was a bad idea?

Honestly forgot it exists. I haven't been browsing for games much lately though.

 

[Anteater]

It's great now but not without sacrifices.

We lost waifu and nanomachines, son, RIP.