What do you think about the current system of recommendations by Steam? (Poll + GA inside)

Steam always recommends me bad games. xD It's completely useless. But I use the discovery queue during specific sales in order to get free trading cards. xD

I've always found the system to be hit and miss. It doesn't properly take into account recent playtime, as would make most sense for reccomendations. Still, sometimes can be helpful for finding games

I often see bad games in recommendations from my friends.

Blame them ^^

Normaly i go trough the recommendationlist and the new games list once in a week and in 90% i don't like the games at all.
Also I added blackwords like VR, Sandbox and Visual Novel and still see these games.

But from time to time i find some good game.

if you buy all the games up that you genuinely care about, all that's left is shitty games to be recommended. ^^

Eh, the store recommendations are usually very pointless. It's either a knockoff of a game on my wishlist or "because you played a game tagged adventure, here are 4 visual novels:". The only good recommendations come from legit curators.

I used the discovery queue a lot when my wishlist was empty. I checked 3,485 titles and 249 landed on my wishlist, so yeah.

Well I get there shooters only while play Elite, Cities Skylines and other sims too. Only 1 time on sale I have seen X3 in my queue

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Recommendations are horrible.
I often check what kind of game a GA is on Steam, and then steam propose me the same kind of shit "because I checked Game A or B".

So I have a lots of stuff at 1-5$ and tooooooooooooon of visual novels.....The other one I see are the AAA games not even released.

The discovery queue is not really better.

they are working on the new system, at least that's what TB said on his channel.

The Discovery queue is completely useless. Steam recommends games such as Farming Simulator just because I like SimCity or Cities: Skylines.

What do you expect from the system? What kind of games would you like to see there? Maybe that fit your current mood or ones you would like to play in future?

It often suggests me bad games (like Bad Rats), and sometimes good games, in which I`m not interested :D

This system surely not designed for the users' convinience. It is to promote or, a better word, to hype the certain products, most of them being overpriced ATM. The same shift is about "games like this" section. Seriously, i saw lots of, say, GTA V amongst the pixel trash, including even now deleted from the store, within those sections. (This raises a question: you said those games were pretty much the same, then must deleted all of them at once, right?!)
I'd really like to get info about nice games i'm unaware about. These are definetly not the being hyped new-released blockbusters, which are not screamed about from my Johnny only)

I look through my discovery queue from time to time. I was shown a game that I removed from my library (Absconding Zatowor) and I wrote a ticket to support thinking it might be a bug. Why would they even try to sell me a game that I clearly do not want and I would be able to get back for free? They replied to mark it as not interested :/
But I did find some gems as well, especially since I stopped idling for cards. I think their algorithm takes into account what you've been playing lately.

I use it in sales. Else only from time to time. Usually I notice new games by appearance in ITAD or here, so there's no need to use thte discovery queue.
Thank you for the great GA!

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Steam keeps recommending those anime visual novels to me. I don't know why it thinks I will like them, I have never played one or anything similar and I don't care to.

As long as it keeps recommending VR stuff when I have everything I can set up to exclude those, there's enough proof that the system is broken.

"We know you marked every single open-world survival game under the moon as Not Interested, but here, this is the latest early access pre-alpha open-world survival game that is popular right now because people are fucking morons who never learn, maybe this will be the game that you will be interested in, despite your 0.00 hours of playing online!"
Also known as: why the ever-living fucking hell was that online king of the hill game by PLAYERUNKNOWN (who is apparently famous for having a keyboard with a goddamn stuck Caps Lock) in the first place on my front page, when exactly zero of its tags conform to games I play on Steam.

I have a feeling they just put new or popular games in the queue. I guess it's an easy way to browse new and popular game once in a while :P
It's main reason for existing is to increase sales though, and it's probably working as intended with exposing new titles to customers.

I don't really use the system

The system is pointless, always was.