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Steam Brings A Game Tagging System

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Steam is continuing its raft of updates, after adding in a recently updated section they have now added user a controlled tagging system.

If you wish to simply filter Linux games it's now under the "Games" drop down list under Mac OS X.
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When filtering from your new "For You" menu, it seems it picks up your operating system automatically as well, at least when trying some tags for myself it automatically set me to "Linux/SteamOS".
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It's quite different from Steam's original tagging system that developers set on their own games since it now allows us to set any tag, including in your own language.
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It's fantastic to see Steam continually update the website to make things better and easier for users, where other sites have simply stagnated.

I hope Desura's talk of new design won't turn out to be vapour-ware. It's been promised for a long time now. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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DrMcCoy Feb 12, 2014
Would be nice if they could integrate that into the client to replace the awfully limited category system. :)
Liam Dawe Feb 12, 2014
Quoting: DrMcCoyWould be nice if they could integrate that into the client to replace the awfully limited category system. :)

Do you mean your games Library category system?
DrMcCoy Feb 12, 2014
Yes, exactly. I always hated how you could only place a game under one category, and how it often failed to sync properly. Ideally, I want that to be completely replaced by grouping the games by your own tags (switchable to popular tags made by other people or friends). Add a way to filter out certain tags, and I'm happy.
Linas Feb 12, 2014
But how do I get a list of Linux games now?
DrMcCoy Feb 12, 2014
Quoting: LinasBut how do I get a list of Linux games now?

There's a "Browse by Platform: Linux" at the bottom of the "Games" menu there.
Linas Feb 12, 2014
Quoting: LinasBut how do I get a list of Linux games now?

To answer my own question. :)

Games - Browse by platform - Linux
Liam Dawe Feb 12, 2014
Quoting: LinasBut how do I get a list of Linux games now?

To quote the article ;)
QuoteIf you wish to simply filter Linux games it's now under the "Games" drop down list under Mac OS X.
Linas Feb 12, 2014
QuoteQ. How does tagging work with different languages?
A. When a user applies a tag, we will categorize that tag under the language that user has Steam set to. Those tags will then only be visible to users that are also viewing Steam in that language.

That is interesting, but not sure if in a good way or not... This basically means that smaller communities will end up with a subset of games tagged. May need to run Steam in English just to gen any meaningful results.
FutureSuture Feb 13, 2014
Awww, Linux no longer gets special attention on the Steam website.
neffo Feb 13, 2014
Quoting: Guest]As a French who is running Steam in English (well, it didn’t ask me which language I wanted… I suppose it picked up my system’s language, which is English), I’m not very fond of this. I’d like to be able to tag and comment in French if I want to. However I suppose the vast majority of French users have Steam and their system in French and I’m an exception.

Edit: BTW the « recommended by steam » menu just tells me: « your friends aren’t recommending you anything! »… meh.

You'd think they might be able to offer second languages in the tags options somewhere. So your tags are automatically thrown into the default language, but you see secondary language tags also. English as a default second language would be a clever idea, surely. (And this would make also make a lot of sense for users who speak something a bit more exotic than say French or English. There's really no reason why a Korean wouldn't want to see a "RPG" tag for example.)
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