All Discussions > Steam Forums > Suggestions / Ideas > Topic Details
leileilei 16 Oct @ 11:08am
Suggestion: Allow users to block developers or publishers
Many players would like the ability to block or hide specific developers or publishers.
This feature would allow users to avoid seeing games from studios whose content or behavior they find unacceptable.

For example, some developers repeatedly release games containing misogynistic or discriminatory themes. It’s uncomfortable to encounter such titles again through recommendations, search results, or event banners.

Steam already provides the option to ignore individual games, but there is no way to exclude all products from the same developer or publisher.
Adding a “Block Developer/Publisher” function — similar to the “Ignore” button for games — would give users more control over their browsing experience.

This would make the Steam experience more respectful and customizable for all users.
< >
Showing 1-5 of 5 comments
cSg|mc-Hotsauce 16 Oct @ 11:14am 
Originally posted by leileilei:
Suggestion: Allow users to block developers or publishers

Many players would like the ability to block or hide specific developers or publishers.
This feature would allow users to avoid seeing games from studios whose content or behavior they find unacceptable.

For example, some developers repeatedly release games containing misogynistic or discriminatory themes. It’s uncomfortable to encounter such titles again through recommendations, search results, or event banners.

Steam already provides the option to ignore individual games, but there is no way to exclude all products from the same developer or publisher.
Adding a “Block Developer/Publisher” function — similar to the “Ignore” button for games — would give users more control over their browsing experience.

This would make the Steam experience more respectful and customizable for all users.

You can already ignore dev/pubs IF they have a dev/pub page to ignore.

For EA... https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/EA

Click the cog icon to the right hand side of the page.

Some titles aren't associated to the publisher page and may not be ignored by ignoring EA themselves. And not all areas of the main store page may not respect the ignore.

:nkCool:
#1
BinaryDigit09 16 Oct @ 11:16am 
Ubisoft disapproves.
#2
WoJo © 16 Oct @ 11:56am 
The OP kinda has a point. For example, you can not ignore sucker punch or naughty dog who have a lot of evil people working there, but the dev page redirects to playstation studios, which also consists of good studios, such as shift up. Most studios do have their separate pages, though, like hazelight is separate from ea.
#3
cSg|mc-Hotsauce 16 Oct @ 12:06pm 
Originally posted by WoJo ©:
The OP kinda has a point. For example, you can not ignore sucker punch or naughty dog who have a lot of evil people working there, but the dev page redirects to playstation studios, which also consists of good studios, such as shift up. Most studios do have their separate pages, though, like hazelight is separate from ea.

Playstation Studios set up their links to the dev pages to link to them. It was the publisher that decided this.

:nkCool:
#4
William Shakesman 16 Oct @ 1:26pm 
Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
Originally posted by WoJo ©:
The OP kinda has a point. For example, you can not ignore sucker punch or naughty dog who have a lot of evil people working there, but the dev page redirects to playstation studios, which also consists of good studios, such as shift up. Most studios do have their separate pages, though, like hazelight is separate from ea.

Playstation Studios set up their links to the dev pages to link to them. It was the publisher that decided this.

:nkCool:
This has been a long standing mistake on Valve's part, especially considering every developer link has a publisher link right next to it, the publishers are simply not entitled to have plain text termiology behave falsely for their benefit.

Since blocking is currently tied to these studio pages (and strangely also the curator group mechanism for some reason, another bit of sloppy erroneous design on Valve's part), resolving the previous paragraph's discrepancy would not even allow studio level blocking without actively setting up a developer page for each studio.
#5
< >
Showing 1-5 of 5 comments
Per page: 1530 50

All Discussions > Steam Forums > Suggestions / Ideas > Topic Details
Date Posted: 16 Oct @ 11:08am
Posts: 5
Start a New Discussion

Discussions Rules and Guidelines