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Steam adds "Dwarf" as a tag (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by testeronious to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 175 points 10 months ago (6 children)

They went from, ‘That’s stupid. We're not doing that," to "That’s stupid but okay," so fucking fast.

[–] M137 121 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"That's stupid but okay" is a very valve thing.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've played TF2.

Their view of "what? No that's silly" struck me as very odd.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps Valve might be several people with different opinions wearing a trench coat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Lev_Astov 5 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I get it from their perspective, featuring dwarves in a game doesn’t really help others find similar games in the same vein. On the other hand, they have a tag for pirates and Black Flag differs quite a bit from puzzle pirates.

[–] grue 12 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Alright, I'll ask the obvious follow-up question: do they have a tag for ninjas?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Of course not. The search result would always be empty.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because the team behind Deep Rock Galactic asked their community to start using it to show demand. And apparently they listened.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

And Dwarf Fortress

[–] GeneralEmergency 22 points 10 months ago

It was a fake "controversy" to draw sales and engagement.

[–] schmidtster 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But by pretending to make scene they just gave themselves and two other companies a shit ton of marketing and people talking about it.

Its always about the money, they found a way to make a few dollars out of nothing.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean, that's how it should be.

If a mass amount of people want a trivial thing that doesn't harm anybody else, even if you disagree with it, why not?

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Lmao that happened so fast. Deep rock galactic and dwarf fortress teaming up really worked!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Steam gets free publicity (not that it's really needed) and it all cost them was 5 letters.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We fight for rock and stone!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did I hear a Rock and Stone!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Rock and stone brother

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago

See? Valve does listen to its customers.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Seems like a short headline.

[–] Whitebrow 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Short headline, but goes deep.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Too deep, some might say 🔥

[–] Zugyuk 40 points 10 months ago

Strike the earth

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

So basically this means there is a significant demographic of gamers that will play a game largely because it features dwarves?

Im sorry, I missed all the fuss about this.

I guess look forward to Dwarf Cart Racing and Dwarf Chess and Dwarf MilSim Tac Squad.

I was gonna say A Dwarf And His Horse but uh... well maybe it would work with dwarf horses. Thats probably got some appeal.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

A Dwarf MilSim Tac Squad would be nice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Some Warhammer dev is taking this to a meeting right now.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A dwarf and his horse would rapidly become a dwarf and his lifetime supply of jerky

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Big win for gamers

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Okay... Thanks for the update.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OOTL: Can I get a summary?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

they rejected the request of Deep Rock Galatic and Dwarf Fortress to add a dwarf tag, the two teamed up on a co marketing campaign to get the decision reversed, Steam acquiesced.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What next? A tag for elves? A tag for tieflings? What a slippery slope!

/s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I'd never support a tag for pointy eared leaf lovers that's going to far

[–] Nikko882 6 points 10 months ago

As far as I've gathered Valve "accidentally" created the elf tag instead when the dwarf tag campaign happened. When someone noticed they went "oh, whoopsie, hehe" and added the dwarf tag too. So elf should also be a tag now.

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[–] Sinful 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I think they could have solved a twitter protest buy going with dwarves instead.

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