Steam tagging changes

I’m quite fond of the removal of “NSFW” and “Mature” tags; these tags were way too broad to be meaningful, and developers should instead mark their games as containing “Gore”, “Violent”, “Nudity”, “Sexual Content”, or similar.

@sodiboo ooh hell yeah

people are mourning the loss of the GameMaker and RPGMaker tags. and, honestly? I see where they’re coming from.

nooo what about my ambient, well-written drama masterpiece made in game maker??

there are so many great well-written games that are made with these tools to the point that this comment rings true

RPGMaker was actually a helpful tag, though…

but… surely there’s a better name we could call these? and surely it doesn’t actually have anything to do with the tool they used? somehow the reputation of both of these tools in my mind is the opposite of Unity. Unity is the game engine that put its name in front of all the shitty games made in it.

i don’t really have a good suggestion for what to call this difficult-to-describe connection i feel between a lot of these games.

but i do ultimately agree with Valve’s decision to remove the existing tags, because exact the tools used to make a game does not really belong in genre tagging

@sodiboo I'm so glad capybaras have their own tag

@agatha

You claim to have removed tags that “no longer serve a good purpose”, yet you add a capybara tag, as if that serves more purpose than a tag like RPGMaker.

@sodiboo idk i like capis

they, uh, removed “Blood” though? that seems. misguided. there’s tons of games out there with blood in them. i guess they almost always fall under violence or gore or something like that, but i believe that a lot of people are really averse to seeing blood in particular, no matter the context, and in that case it seems very useful/important to have a tag clearly labeling this.

[the part about removing NSFW because there are descriptive alternatives]

But you’re removing the tag “Blood”? That seems like a descriptive one and it’s quite specific, and doesn’t necessarily overlap with e.g. “Gore”. I’m confused.

@agatha Capybaras are cool