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deadbeef 2 Oct @ 9:27pm
The new discovery queue sucks
It's awful.

I never watch the trailers for games, because they always waste my time with useless cinematics and flashy visuals that have nothing to do with the game. All I want to do are view the screenshots. In the old discovery queue, the very first thing I would do is click off the trailer because it wastes my time and switch to looking at the screenshots to see what kind of game it was.

In the new discovery queue, there is no way to view the screenshots. You are only given the trailer (which again, wastes my time), the description, and the tags of the game. There's not even a progress bar on the trailer, so I can't try to skip to the middle of the trailer to actually see the gameplay.

Now, if I want to view the screenshots, I have to right click "view store page", click "open in new tab", then click the screenshots on the store page. If I don't open the store page on a new tab, then clicking "back" will take me back to the main store screen outside of my discovery queue, so I have to scroll down and click on the discovery queue again, and I'm given a fresh new set of games, so I have no idea the games that I just missed out on seeing from my prior discovery queue.

It's awful. What used to be 1 click to switch over to the screenshots is now three clicks plus a page load. All just to see what the game looks like without having my time wasted by the trailer.

Truly awful. Now that the discovery queue wastes my time, I'll have to find some other way to discover new games on steam.
Last edited by deadbeef; 2 Oct @ 9:34pm
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t9 2 Oct @ 10:10pm 
Sounds completely awful, wth
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Redbeard 3 Oct @ 3:45am 
I have to agree with this.

I want to see the screenshots and player reviews.
Without those, the new discovery queue actually decreases the likelihood of me buying any of those games.
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Magnavus 3 Oct @ 11:52pm 
I have to agree also.
It is definitely a waste of time.

I've been looking for a way to send feedback to Steam about the discovery queue.

I've viewed 1381 titles and ignored 1381 titles, I was once recommended FIFA or EA Sports FC because it was similar to other games that I had played, Space Engineers and 7 Days to Die.
Their reasoning, they all have multiplayer.

Todays discovery queue was all games that are popular or on sale, nothing similar to what I own or play.

I have never bought a single game that Steam has recommended to me in the discovery queue and I don't think I ever will.
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Redbeard 14 Oct @ 6:49pm 
It seems that Steam have listened, as the discovery queue is now back to the old format.

Of course, if Steam was a government organisation, they would have just doubled down and told us that the new format was "better for us" or some other PR spin.

However, I am concerned that none of the games presented to me are those which I would like to buy (there used to be at least 1 or 2 per discovery queue that I would be interested in).

If someone screws up the algorithms, then they could point to a drop in sales via discovery queues and say:

"See, the new discovery queue was better; now that we have reverted to the old-style discovery queue, sales have dropped".

They have to fix the algorithms as well, otherwise any discovery queue format will be useless.
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Takohashi 15 Oct @ 2:31am 
Originally posted by Redbeard:
It seems that Steam have listened, as the discovery queue is now back to the old format.
:steamfacepalm::steamfacepalm::steamfacepalm:
This "new" queue has only been around during sales for many years now.
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PocketYoda 15 Oct @ 2:34am 
I agree and yes i avoid trailers myself, very rarely i use them.
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THE BEAN-INNATOR 15 Oct @ 1:05pm 
Originally posted by Magnavus:
I have to agree also.
It is definitely a waste of time.

I've been looking for a way to send feedback to Steam about the discovery queue.

I've viewed 1381 titles and ignored 1381 titles, I was once recommended FIFA or EA Sports FC because it was similar to other games that I had played, Space Engineers and 7 Days to Die.
Their reasoning, they all have multiplayer.

Todays discovery queue was all games that are popular or on sale, nothing similar to what I own or play.

I have never bought a single game that Steam has recommended to me in the discovery queue and I don't think I ever will.

This is my exact experience trying to browse the store. I am uninterested in 100% of the results. No, I do not want to play another free to play anime RPG, no I don't want a children's game, I told it to ignore anything sports related but it shows it anyways, no I don't want rougelikes or survival horror these are ignored tags, why can't it respect ignored tags? It really only shows things considered to be 'popular' and has been a complete waste of my time. I've ignored over 400 titles in a row, but the algorithm doesn't change at all.

And why is it I can only give negative feedback "don't show me anymore rougelikes" (that it will ignore and show anyways) instead of being able to say "I'm looking for good strategy games or singleplayer class based rpg?"
And the forced recommendations from games I play is absurd. Just because I play TF2 doesn't make me want to buy call-of-modern-warfare-duty-infinite-advanced-6-battlefront-remastered... these aren't what I'm looking for in the slightest!

Further, I hate how it MOVES whenever it wants to start playing a livestream or there's some kind of event or sale, and the window scrolls down or enlarges and instead of hitting IGNORE it makes me inadvertedly click the screenshot or livestream.
Last edited by THE BEAN-INNATOR; 15 Oct @ 1:09pm
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PocketYoda 15 Oct @ 5:36pm 
Originally posted by THE BEAN-INNATOR:
Originally posted by Magnavus:
I have to agree also.
It is definitely a waste of time.

I've been looking for a way to send feedback to Steam about the discovery queue.

I've viewed 1381 titles and ignored 1381 titles, I was once recommended FIFA or EA Sports FC because it was similar to other games that I had played, Space Engineers and 7 Days to Die.
Their reasoning, they all have multiplayer.

Todays discovery queue was all games that are popular or on sale, nothing similar to what I own or play.

I have never bought a single game that Steam has recommended to me in the discovery queue and I don't think I ever will.

This is my exact experience trying to browse the store. I am uninterested in 100% of the results. No, I do not want to play another free to play anime RPG, no I don't want a children's game, I told it to ignore anything sports related but it shows it anyways, no I don't want rougelikes or survival horror these are ignored tags, why can't it respect ignored tags? It really only shows things considered to be 'popular' and has been a complete waste of my time. I've ignored over 400 titles in a row, but the algorithm doesn't change at all.

And why is it I can only give negative feedback "don't show me anymore rougelikes" (that it will ignore and show anyways) instead of being able to say "I'm looking for good strategy games or singleplayer class based rpg?"
And the forced recommendations from games I play is absurd. Just because I play TF2 doesn't make me want to buy call-of-modern-warfare-duty-infinite-advanced-6-battlefront-remastered... these aren't what I'm looking for in the slightest!

Further, I hate how it MOVES whenever it wants to start playing a livestream or there's some kind of event or sale, and the window scrolls down or enlarges and instead of hitting IGNORE it makes me inadvertedly click the screenshot or livestream.
Usually 5 mins after using the store i tend to leave it because its such a mess to deal with.. my discovery queues are full of meme games i must ignore everytime and demos i have no interest in.. I'm here to buy games not fill my pc up with fake demos.
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