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dobrotini 21 Jun @ 3:42am

Filtering by publisher/developer

Hi, my first suggestion here, as I didn't find similar thread.

The idea is to extend current filters with Publisher/Developer on steam page products in two areas:

1. Steam Store homepage, while using "Search" functionality. Typing the publisher/developer name will not find their games. Suggestion is to make search more robust in that area - or extend the filters like currently we have "Narrow by..." and the ability to narrow by the Publisher/Developer.

Reason: making decision path a more direct. Knowing the publisher/developer, but small indie ones might not have yet published games, would help them to track either their games were found by game name or by studio name (if such analytics are provided to them). For gamers - direct shot to the developer/publisher page with their games, instead workaround by finding their one game and then clicking on the publisher/developer links.

2. In the own game collections and dynamic collections. It's not possible now, to group games by publishers/developers as a dynamic collection. Only manual option is possible.

Reason: Politics in the game industry changes. Developer might change the publisher he works with.

In first case - updated terms with TakeTwo / 2K in all their games - will help user to track what games fell to the dynamic collection basket.

In second case - simply easier way to support studio/developer, by finding their games and then - going straight to their for example - DLCs, or when we buy games in big packages like HumbleBundle - almost insta spot what games are from our favourite publisher/developer.

What do you think?

Last edited by dobrotini; 21 Jun @ 1:21pm

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Franky 21 Jun @ 3:59am

Actually, that would be very helpful option. Especially to categorize games in our own libraries, I'm all for that!

Jsaac4000 21 Jun @ 4:55am

An option to ignore studios that don't have a page yet would be neat.

Sayo 21 Jun @ 9:45am

+1 solid suggestion

Michaell303 21 Jun @ 2:44pm

very helpful option

dobrotini 23 Jun @ 4:04am

Originally posted by Jsaac4000:
An option to ignore studios that don't have a page yet would be neat.

That and following by it - in general something like "negative filtering", like "filter games that are RPG but not souls-like". I imagine it as tags "rpg" and "!souls-like", with an exclamation mark as negative.

I understand that might be a huge, maybe to be treated as another request, just to make changes progressively.