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After Valve says no, Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic devs unite to get "very serious" about their very silly demand for a dwarf tag on Steam, and they want your help (www.gamesradar.com)
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[-] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 133 points 9 months ago

Aren't there community tags for situations like these?

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 142 points 9 months ago

I think the problem is that they don't get awards even tho they are very good game and really amazing devs who love their games and playerbase. Last year read dead redemption won labour of love in the same category as drg was in 🤮

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 137 points 9 months ago

The Steam awards are a total joke. RDR, a game with zero content updates won labor of love. Starfield, a paint-by-number Bethesda RPG is most innovative. But it doesn't matter because the awards don't matter.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

I believe Starfield at least was brigading to prove the point that the awards are silly at best at this point.

Did the job pretty well.

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 35 points 9 months ago

Yeah I didn't understand how RDR won that award. Weird.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago

It made about as much sense as Starfield winning the most innovative gameplay...

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Awards are decided by number of votes

People are idiots

Do the math

[-] Triple_B@lemmy.zip 14 points 9 months ago

I think RDR and Starfield winning were ops planned by their respective communities. Like, these games are clearly neither of these things, yet they won. It's seems intentional. Not on Valves part. I have no proof, of course. It's just baffling.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's just baffling

How is it baffling? Gamers are "idiots" in the sense that memes are usually more important than useful communication. This post is exactly the same type of thing, a "dwarf" tag doesn't really help communicate anything useful; am I more likely to want a "dwarf" game, or more likely to want a specific genre of game?

Starfield and RDR won their respective categories because gamers like to meme about. It's the same reason useless Steam reviews get highly upvoted, gamers like to meme about.

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[-] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah steam awards were a joke but what does it have to do with a dwarf tag? Do they also want a dwarf category in steam awards?

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 11 points 9 months ago

Isn't Steam awards are voted by users? So if anything, should the users (or rather, troll voters) be blamed?

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

Certainly trolls deserve quite a bit of the blame. But Steam is also to blame for allowing people to vote on games they've never even played before, and allowing games that haven't been updated in over a year to be eligible for labor of love. When 5 games someone doesn't own are the options, it just becomes a contest of which game is best known.

[-] yildo@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

It's why Pizza Pizza has a history of being voted as Toronto's best pizza chain despite selling cardboard with red paint on it as food

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[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Also: who gives a fuck?

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[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 81 points 9 months ago

If you don't rock and stone, you ain't coming home.

[-] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Rock and stone to the bone!

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[-] LeonenTheDK@lemmy.ca 73 points 9 months ago

I fucking love dwarves, I'm all for a dwarf tag.

[-] cafuneandchill@lemmy.world 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Screw layoffs, this is the actual Gaming Industry Disasterâ„¢

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago

Let's move it a bit further and introduce tags as detailed as vndb.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

WTF? Valve are you serious?

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago

They're careful. They probably don't want a tag, about which articles will be made, saying "valve evil they make fun of dwarfism"

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

At that point, make it 'dwarves' so its clear its about the fantasy race, rather than making fun of dwarfs.

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[-] dbaner@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I think the way tags work is that steam shows the most commonly used tags. But you can still add your own. If enough people add a dwarf tag then eventually it'll start appearing as an option for other people.

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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 12 points 9 months ago

I demand an "undead" tag!

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

I think they want to avoid the abuse potential. It could be used to make fun of little people.

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