Originally posted by gray old man:

Blocked Publisher/Developer

What is the point of this feature? I have EA blocked and I still see every single new game they release and have to ignore each one individually, anyway. If I click on the EA publisher page, it tells me that I have them ignored, and every game on the list reflects that. I am still stuck staring at new games popping up on my home screen that I am obviously never going to buy, so there is no marketing reason for it, and I'm just getting annoyed, so less likely to check the Store, at all, if my filters don't work.

Q: Sometimes I see blurred out games on my Store front page. Why is that?

A: There are a number of sections on the front page that we fill with games, and to ensure the servers behind it don't melt down as everyone tries to use it, we do a lot of data caching. This works great for data sets that we can easily pre-compute - so if there's a game you shouldn't see due to your mature content filters, you'll never see it on the front page. But if you've chosen to do some more personal filtering of particular developers, or specific games, we can't do that pre-computation as easily. As a result, it's possible you'll see a blurred out game on the front page because your personal filters should cause it to be hidden. In practice, though, this will only happen if you've filtered out so many games that it can't find enough to fill a section of the front page, and again, like the search results, we'll blur that game out and tell you why.

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Originally posted by gray old man:

What is the point of this feature? I have EA blocked and I still see every single new game they release and have to ignore each one individually, anyway. If I click on the EA publisher page, it tells me that I have them ignored, and every game on the list reflects that. I am still stuck staring at new games popping up on my home screen that I am obviously never going to buy, so there is no marketing reason for it, and I'm just getting annoyed, so less likely to check the Store, at all, if my filters don't work.

you have to like EA, if you dont thats wrongthink, and the steam fangirls will come after you, careful

I have the same issue. Hell, I see games I’ve directly ignored sometimes on my homepage. Often in the “because you played” section. It’s annoying. It’s like “No, I don’t want to play that, I ignored it for a reason, stop shoving it in my homepage.” I wonder if there’s some sort of option or extra filter I haven’t set sometimes, tbh.

Originally posted by John Henry Eden:

Originally posted by gray old man:

What is the point of this feature? I have EA blocked and I still see every single new game they release and have to ignore each one individually, anyway. If I click on the EA publisher page, it tells me that I have them ignored, and every game on the list reflects that. I am still stuck staring at new games popping up on my home screen that I am obviously never going to buy, so there is no marketing reason for it, and I'm just getting annoyed, so less likely to check the Store, at all, if my filters don't work.

you have to like EA, if you dont thats wrongthink, and the steam fangirls will come after you, careful

Are the “steam fangirls” on the forum with us right now? Because I don’t know of anyone who loves (or even likes) modern EA. People put up with them b/c of some of the licenses they hold. That’s it. Same for Ubisoft and a handful of other companies.