To me it doesn’t matter which of the two genders a protagonist happens to be but I have noticed that the companies who need to promote it as if it’s some sort of feature are usually making up for a lack of actual features and quality gameplay.

Originally posted by HaXz0:

Hello,

I noticed that the Steam Store has an official “Female Protagonist” tag but no equivalent “Male Protagonist” tag. I understand the intention might be to help highlight less common character types, but from a user experience perspective, the lack of parallel tagging feels inconsistent.

As a customer, I believe having symmetrical tags (both “Male Protagonist” and “Female Protagonist”) would improve search functionality and make the system more neutral and consistent for everyone.

I’m not suggesting the removal of the “Female Protagonist” tag — only that the same feature be available for male leads, so users can filter either way if they wish.

Baiters are blocked on principle.

Originally posted by HaXz0:

Hello,

I noticed that the Steam Store has an official “Female Protagonist” tag but no equivalent “Male Protagonist” tag. I understand the intention might be to help highlight less common character types, but from a user experience perspective, the lack of parallel tagging feels inconsistent.

As a customer, I believe having symmetrical tags (both “Male Protagonist” and “Female Protagonist”) would improve search functionality and make the system more neutral and consistent for everyone.

I’m not suggesting the removal of the “Female Protagonist” tag — only that the same feature be available for male leads, so users can filter either way if they wish.

Female Protagonist is a user generate tag.

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Originally posted by HaXz0:

Hello,

I noticed that the Steam Store has an official “Female Protagonist” tag but no equivalent “Male Protagonist” tag. I understand the intention might be to help highlight less common character types, but from a user experience perspective, the lack of parallel tagging feels inconsistent.

As a customer, I believe having symmetrical tags (both “Male Protagonist” and “Female Protagonist”) would improve search functionality and make the system more neutral and consistent for everyone.

I’m not suggesting the removal of the “Female Protagonist” tag — only that the same feature be available for male leads, so users can filter either way if they wish.

Female Protagonist is a user generate tag.

As are majority of the rest that people see.

"Official" tags are basically the listed genres that games belong to.

Originally posted by Shreddy:

To me it doesn’t matter which of the two genders a protagonist happens to be but I have noticed that the companies who need to promote it as if it’s some sort of feature are usually making up for a lack of actual features and quality gameplay.

It's kinda like the way that the ones, shouting they are the most inclusive, usually turns out to be the least inclusive

Oh look is this thread again.

I don't think the tag system of all things needs to enforce binary gender, but if you think it does, you can add the tag to games you think it belongs on and maybe Valve will add it to the list of tags that have official pages.

"Female protagonist" became a thing because for a while it was en vogue to draw more attention to the industry making efforts to be more inclusive and appeal to wider audiences. it came about to counter the notion that games were created to appeal to a presumed male audience.

I would argue that the tag has lost some relevance with time (if only because it seems we get a lot more female representation than we used to), but that it sticks around due to force of habit. I think a lot of people will instinctively use the tag for pretty much any game that features a female protagonist.

Everybody's free to tag a game as "male protagonist" if they so choose. The thing is it would be hard to see such a tag as anything other than a response to to the "female protagonist" tag, which would likely carry some negative connotations with it.