Steam introduces the ability for users to tag games.

Got super excited at the thread title, thinking that, finally, my most wanted feature had been added to the client and I could tag and sort my library.

My soul was crushed seeing it was just a poor attempt at aiding discoverability on the store.
 
The upcoming Thief game made it on "Casual"

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ab.aeterno said:
Got super excited at the thread title, thinking that, finally, my most wanted feature had been added to the client and I could tag and sort my library.

My soul was crushed seeing it was just a poor attempt at aiding discoverability on the store.
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You can already organize your games into different categories, if that's what you mean.
 
Deepo said:
Neat, but LIBRARY for the love of god.
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After the beta period, it will happen. It's ideal timing once there is enough data over a month or so from tagging, to create a complete system for the library, including automatic and personal tagging/categorisation. Notice how almost every other section in steam has been updated over the past months except the client desktop library.... wishful thinking perhaps, but it seems like a natural iterative step to me
 
oneils said:
lol, so did Dark Souls. Some good trolling, there.
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I'm inclined to think that Dark Souls is more Casual than Barbie Party is Post-apocalyptic.

Or not.

I just can't decide ^_^


It will be either fun, or usable. Can't be both. Will probably be fun (for a while).
 
Would be nice if your personal tags applied themselves to stuff in your library and could be used to filter.

And if you could combine more than one tag to filter with. I want to know what other games feature space and dogs.
 
TheVoidDragon said:
You can already organize your games into different categories, if that's what you mean.
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That's definitely not what I mean.

I want actual tags. But since no one at Valve wants to address this, or other issues with the client, it will never be done. Hell, Origin has had Twitch integration for a year or more and there's no sign that will ever make it in, let alone any of the many small usability godsends of Enhanced Steam.
 
ab.aeterno said:
That's definitely not what I mean.

I want actual tags. But since no one at Valve wants to address this, or other issues with the client, it will never be done. Hell, Origin has had Twitch integration for a year or more and there's no sign that will ever make it in, let alone any of the many small usability godsends of Enhanced Steam.
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You're right. No one at Valve cares anything about the client, which is totally why it gets beta updates every day and a half
 
Htown said:
You're right. No one at Valve cares anything about the client, which is totally why it gets beta updates every day and a half
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Yes, because obviously I was saying that Valve has literally never updated the client, instead of making the point that the core functionality and usability has not changed. Obviously, being opted into the beta client and in many beta features means I'm arguing exactly what you said.

Give me a fucking break.

My point was that their engineers are too busy doing what they want to add to Steam as a service (Hats! Badges! Profiles! Gamification! Family Sharing!) or as a console competitor (SteamOS! Linux! Media playback! Big Picture Mode!) to address issues that have been around for years.

The issue of library management grows worse as instability issues like random category wipes go unresolved and usability issues like categories go unaddressed, but Steam sales and an ever widening catalog keep libraries growing.

Having to do crowd tagging because discoverability and search suck isn't a solution anyways, as we're seeing.
 
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