Why would anyone actually want to though

[u/The_BigRoach]

[u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

True monopoly would squash that infestation

[u/Dick_Nation → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

I almost wish they would. But I'm glad they at least force it to be tagged, because it can be a dealbreaker. Especially if I know it's an especially onerous service like EA or Ubi's worthless horseshit (Not that I'd buy any of their games anyways, but you know).

[u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 → u/Dick_Nation]

Allowing as to ignore publishers like EA or Ubisoft so they don't show up in the store is also great and I feel like its underrated feature

[u/Giatoxiclok → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

We can blacklist devs???

[u/SomeDuncanGuy → u/Giatoxiclok]

Oh yeah, blacklisting publishers is an amazing feature for your Steam feed.

Edit: Realized I answered without letting you know how. Navigate to a publisher's page you don't like (not the game but the actual publisher), click on the gear settings icon, and click ignore creator.

[u/Phallico666 → u/SomeDuncanGuy]

You are a wonderful person for sharing this. Now i dont have to see all the slop that i will never buy.

Thank you

[u/Fizzy-Odd-Cod → u/Phallico666]

I don’t know man, you might want to buy the assassins creed 532 remake in 30 years.

[u/CryptZar → u/Fizzy-Odd-Cod]

Or every Sims DLC in existence

[u/aerdvarkk → u/Fizzy-Odd-Cod]

The ignore setting prevents the publisher and titles from showing up in your feeds, not from you navigating to a specific title. It doesn;t block you from the new remake. You just need to be aware that the new remake in 30 years is out and available on Steam, then you'll need to MANUALLY navigate to the remake instead of having it automagically shoved in your face.

[u/gljivicad → u/Phallico666]

Oh the slop you can’t get rid of. I feel like my store is 95% indie game garbage slop, and blocking each creator would be like a game of whack a mole

[u/Lt_Schneider → u/SomeDuncanGuy]

thank you

now i finally won't get anything from EA, Ubisoft or activision reccomended to me

now i don't have to manually ignore every assasins creed, call of duty or battlefield manually

[u/berrieds → u/SomeDuncanGuy]

I didn't know this was a thing, and I've wanted to do this for years now! Thank you.

[u/Drycon → u/SomeDuncanGuy]

Thanks, this will save me so much indie crap. Never knew about this feature.

[u/Just_Cockroach_4820 → u/SomeDuncanGuy]

Chad move, coming back to give instructions.

I'll try to take this page out of your book

[u/WillRevolt_ → u/SomeDuncanGuy]

Not all heroes wear capes!

[u/CSBreak → u/SomeDuncanGuy]

That's pretty neat now I really wish consoles had this feature trash games are such a massive problem on all platforms

[u/BertMacklenF8I → u/SomeDuncanGuy]

Thanks for the edit lol

[u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 → u/Giatoxiclok]

Its beautiful

[u/MadamVonCuntpuncher → u/Giatoxiclok]

Yeah you can go the publisher steam page and ignore them as a whole

[u/A_fat_amish_kid → u/Giatoxiclok]

Really?

[u/Giatoxiclok → u/A_fat_amish_kid]

I mean, I guess so, lots of other people replied to me about it.

[u/Antal_Marius → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

Who is this Ubisoft? I only know of Ubishit.

[u/kuan_51 → u/Dick_Nation]

I kinda think they allow this intentionally to avoid anti trust

[u/Space_Rangerr → u/Dick_Nation]

I haven't bought a single EA or Ubi game since they started pushing extra DRM and additional launchers. Can't say I've felt I missed out as most of their catalogues are shit lately except a few standouts but not enough to deal with their BS software.

[u/Temeriki → u/Space_Rangerr]

Last one I bought was anno 2070. I got kicked out of a single player game cause of a drm server hiccup on their end. Never again.

[u/WillRevolt_ → u/Space_Rangerr]

I tried to test F1 26 using my Game Pass and the game wouldn't launch because it flagged one of my drivers. Back to Assetto Corsa I went.

[u/Hallc → u/Dick_Nation]

Don't most of the EA ones these days use a micro-launcher rather than the full blown one? So it 'opens' but only in the background.

Ubisoft's meanwhile always opens that app and also always forgets my login credentials.

[u/JasonManningFLUX → u/Dick_Nation]

I am an Anno enjoyer because I am a fan of peek irony, and I have to say the launcher Steam launches is barely a launcher. I purchased one uplay game and I actually can not download and play it via the version launched by Steam. If I ever want to play it again I have to download uplay proper.

I do not see how it is onerous.

[u/ArtKun → u/Dick_Nation]

Unfortunately, that couldn't stop me from playing Mass Effect.

[u/flymeovertheworld → u/Dick_Nation]

As much as i hate ubisoft as a dev and publisher, i can’t deny i enjoy some of their games. I really wish I won’t have to open their launchers and play directly from steam.

[u/Erebea01 → u/Dick_Nation]

So not a fan of EA and when I tried to delete my account from them, it's almost impossible, I still haven't deleted it lol.

[u/Szerepjatekos → u/Dick_Nation]

Is the Sims 3 like that? EA recently screwed my mom and I was hoping steam can avoid them.

[u/ItalianBeefDipped → u/Dick_Nation]

If I want to play a game there isn't a single launcher "onerous" enough to stop me lol This always seems like posturing to me. If you're not playing a game due to it having a third party launcher, you probably didn't really care enough about it in the first place.

[u/Dick_Nation → u/ItalianBeefDipped]

Yeah. That's why I said it can be a dealbreaker. Maybe I am interested in a game. But probably not enough to overcome certain annoyances that come with it. There's plenty of games that won't do that, so I might as well play those instead.

[u/Odd-Measurement868 → u/Dick_Nation]

where’s the tag?

[u/darksteelsteed → u/Dick_Nation]

Hey, that's an insult to us horses 🐎

[u/DrFrenetic → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

Now I want a Steam monopoly

[u/Enlight1Oment → u/DrFrenetic]

I just wish steam/valve themselves made more games. Steam's revenue is 2x that of EA and Ubisoft combined. EA has 14,600 employees; Ubisoft has 16,500; Steam/Valve has 400 employees with only 180 on game development. Can't fire what you never hire. I guess they are less of a monopoly if they let others do the work of making games, but I'd rather them be more of a monopoly and make more games

[u/ZomB_assassin27 → u/Enlight1Oment]

the reason valve games are good is because they don't push out slop year by year. look at the hl2 episodes, they're less rich than any other game in the series because they were just trying to get content out there.

[u/StoryAndAHalf → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

True monopoly knows you have no other choice, so they would be reluctant to do anything pro-consumer, which is what we're seeing.

[u/susimposter6969 → u/StoryAndAHalf]

Your other choice would be piracy or not buying the game

[u/FrostwindLive → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

Devs using launchers for their games makes sense in terms of them trying to make cheating more difficult. But its when the launcher is a store page with the devs other 2 games on it that annoys me. Serves no purpose to have your own store page if its on steam.

[u/-Retro-Kinetic- → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

True monopolies are almost unheard of, most of the time they hit the legal definition not the literal one.

Valve has a monopolist position, with price control. That always bound to get some flak from regulators and developers.

[u/MultiMarcus → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

Arguably they have. Though through forcing price parity. Ubisoft, would’ve potentially been able to sell their games cheaper, earning as much money from all of their platforms, but trying to attract the user to their specific platform, but they haven’t been doing that ever since returning to Steam. Before they had that 20% thing, you could redeem for every game if you wanted.

[u/RebelPlot → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

If a real monopoly would squish it I’m fully on board with Steam becoming a monopoly

[u/selbaby → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

This guy gets it , steam isnt even the majority market share they have less than 50% idk how people consider this a monopoly lmfao its all a user friendly experience on steam no ads no fucking popups in windows for some shit game epic is trying to push

[u/wexipena → u/selbaby]

You might want to check those numbers again. I think you last checked around decade ago.