Yeah or nah?
I don't think so because of 2 reasons.
First, browse filters doesn't affect trains since they are not open giveaways
Secondly, people who enters those "crappy" games know what they are entering. Knowing the game is not "overwhelmingly positive" won't be a surprise for them.
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not exactly a filter, but with esgst you can add a tag under the game titles that show their rating. you can also color-code them.
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8.2 games > game categories. rating is the 26th category, and i also have the sub-option enabled "show the percentage and number of reviews next to the icon."
there are several good tags i like to use so i'd suggest going through them all and activating whichever seems helpful to you.
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I'd love this!! My GA group is based on very positive reviews. It would make it easier to spot if one of the members accidentally posted one that's under the review requirement.
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That's a tag/category in ESGST under Setting # 8.2.26.
Aside from that, giveaways that don't meet review requirements can be found using an export the SteamDB data, exporting giveaway data via ESGST, then cross referencing them using the AppIDs. The only limitation of Steam is that subs don't have ratings, only apps do.
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This is something I'd like to see added to SG. I don't like using plugins or addons.
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The only thing Steamgifts offers so far is to filter for the metascore, e.g.: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaways/search?metascore_min=90
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So all games made before XBOX 360/PS3 are not actually games?
Ok...
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I play games to enjoy the content of the game. I never understood why people like achievements. Also, I don't understand why anyone would want to go back through a game to collect achievements, it seems like a frustrating hassle and complete waste of time. Collecting achievements is like collecting digital cards, badges, and Steam account levels. I don't see any purpose to this other than to compare yourself to other people online and feel better than them because your numbers are bigger.
I hate that social media part of Steam. It seems like there are so many people that spend more time collecting games, cards, and badges to increasing their Steam numbers than they spend actually playing their games.
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I don't like sports, but I don't see how it has anything to do with Steam numbers other than being competitive. I have never hear of KPI, but I just looked it up and don't see how it could relate to using Steam. I understand the army, but don't understand how you can compare it to Steam. Are you building up your numbers on Steam to defend yourself or attack another Steam user? I honestly have no idea what you are talking about with any of those things.
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People are social beings. They compete and cooperate with each other. And also people like rewards and signs that show they're capable of something. From the very beginning of video gaming consoles had two controllers, and then, when technologies allowed, achievements were introduced, so people could compare the success of each other playing even the most autistic self-centered games. Good designed games usually has very interesting and challenging achievements, that enrich my gameplay. Sometimes I expand my boundaries trying to achieve something hard, and it most definitely influenced my personality. Social pride from a rare achievement becomes a secondary thing when I feel I've become better. Thus, video game achievements motivated me to achieve something in real life - in sports and in money earning.
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I just never thought of people playing single player games in a competitive way. I am a competitive person. I was addicted to Counter Strike for many years and enjoy playing racing games against people online, but I always played single player games as a form of escapism. I like to forget the real world for a while and enjoy a good story based game. Adding achievements to these games seems kind of pointless to me.
I guess I can understand if people want to make single player games competitive by adding achievements, but that is not something I will ever enjoy. I don't find it enjoyable to go back through a game I already completed just so I can show a bunch of random people on the internet that I did something that thousands of other people have also done. It feels like a waste of time, especially with how many games I have in my backlog that I am interested in playing.
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Single player games are played by speedrunners for world records, speedrun summits like AGDQ are interesting to watch, and video analysis of speedruns on Youtube are interesting too. I watch it along with DOTA 2 events because it's an actual sport where people compete, not the classical so-called sport, where physical disciplines are a vanity fair of doping users, and intellectual disciplines are devalued by AI. My escapism gaming years before Steam was a mistake. Lost years, I don't want to count them.
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I've ignored (on Steam) and hidden (here on SG) some very high in demand games. So I think it's safe to say, that for me personally "overwhelmingly positive" doesn't really mean much. I still think it's a good idea though, as it may be helpful to others. What would really help me, would be filtering by Steam tags.
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I think "overwhelmingly positive" doesn't mean high demand tho, there are some games with "overwhelmingly positive" ratio but low sales. I am not sure but as far as i know, the "recommended" tab is for high demand games.
What would really help me, would be filtering by Steam tags.
Yeah, that would be nice too
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You're right, "overwhelmingly positive" doesn't necessarily mean in high demand. There's games with extremely good reviews ("overwhelmingly positive"), which somehow slipped under the radar in terms of sales and wishlists. The other way round is certainly true, though, that most of the top wishlisted games generally come with positive reviews. In any case it's not really suitable for me personally to find interesting games. The "recommended" tab, in my experience, shows some hybrid of learned (meaning your previous giveaway entries) and high demand results.
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The last few months I've been busy hiding all giveaways I'm not interested in. It only takes a few clicks per day and I get a clean giveaway list in return. When you start doing this it requires some time and dedication to keep on hiding everything you don't like. But eventually you will only have to hide a couple games a day after some time. Cleans up Steamgifts to show only giveaways you're interested in. Currently more than 7000 games hidden and it works like a charm for me.
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Like I said, at the start it takes some time. But eventually you only have to hide a few games a day. I've probably spent 3 hours all together of the last few months hiding everything. But I'm profitting from that now. In my opinion well worth it.
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+1, I have over 15,000 games hidden and it makes the site so much better. Almost all giveaways I see are for games I want and if it's something I don't recognize, then it is a new game to me and I want to check the Steam page to see if it is something I may be interested in.
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what about this https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaways/search?metascore_min=80 you get games that score is 80 or more
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Well, the title is pretty clear.
I am trying to enter less and less giveaways and trying to play my backlog lately. I am using ESG filter for <$13 games.
The thing is, sometimes i find some great games that cost less than $13 and i think an "Overwhelmingly Positive" filter can help this issue. I don't think it will look out-of-place as well.
My only concern is i don't know if this is technically possible. If yes, i think it is a good idea.
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