They went from, ‘That’s stupid. We’re not doing that," to “That’s stupid but okay,” so fucking fast.
“That’s stupid but okay” is a very valve thing.
I’ve played TF2.
Their view of “what? No that’s silly” struck me as very odd.
Perhaps Valve might be several people with different opinions wearing a trench coat.
Preposterous!
But okay.
Because the team behind Deep Rock Galactic asked their community to start using it to show demand. And apparently they listened.
It was a fake “controversy” to draw sales and engagement.
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.
Alright, I’ll ask the obvious follow-up question: do they have a tag for ninjas?
They have one for dragons: https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Dragon
We need more games where you play as a dragon.
Wouldn’t a ninja tag technically say more about a game than a dwarf tag though, since a Ninja is a profession, meanwhile dwarfs are just short creatures fond of drink and industry?
Is there a Human tag on steam?
Dwarves’ profession is intrinsic.
Alcoholics?
Diggers
Of course not. The search result would always be empty.
Potato salad…
Banana bread…
At work? Banana bread at work dawg?! HELL YEAH DAWG, HELL YEAH.
Lmao that happened so fast. Deep rock galactic and dwarf fortress teaming up really worked!
Steam gets free publicity (not that it’s really needed) and it all cost them was 5 letters.
Rock and Stone
ROCK AND STONE BROTHER
Strike the earth
Okay… Thanks for the update.
LOL right? Like… neat. Cool that it finally got this random tag… Seems like a slow news cycle for gaming.
See? Valve does listen to its customers.
OOTL: Can I get a summary?
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.
What next? A tag for elves? A tag for tieflings? What a slippery slope!
/s
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.
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.
A Dwarf MilSim Tac Squad would be nice
Some Warhammer dev is taking this to a meeting right now.
Uh i call dibs on the idea.
Pay me, because I am a very creative modern game high level idea generator.
Oh, the state of modern games and game development.
Elsewhere, Nintendo lawyers seethe and rage as they comb through almost certainly illegally acquired documentation and game files, looking for any actionable reason to sue PalWorld and its creators into an early grave
If you think vermintide in any way resembles a milsim tactical combat game, you are either delusional or have never played like RavenShield, SWAT 1 or 2, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (not fucking Seige), the ARMA series, even Squad, or Americas Army or hell even the NeoTokyo mod for HL2 way back in the day, or anything like that.
Vermintide is basically L4D2 with a thematic facelift.
Tooootally not a milsim or squad based tactics game where planning, preperation and training are key because one or two minor mistakes and basically mission fail, everyone dies.
MilSims and Tacitcal Squad Based Combat games are hugely defined by very tense periods of going as by the book as you can, punctuated by extremely intense moments that you often cannot predict will occur.
Vermintide, like L4D2, is more or less long sustained periods of intense, largely unrealistic, much more forgiving (far lower average TTK for the player) combat, with many more fantastical elements, and then the down time is generally minimized, unless you are an absurdly good team or are astoundingly lucky.
My bad, I keep forgetting some couch warriors keep trying to make “milsim” mean something besides shooter.
I for one went and marked 100% of my dwarf games with the custom title yesterday.
Glad to see that now that I helped, they’re gunna change it
How many dwarf games could there really be?
Is there an entire genre that I’m unaware of?
More than you would think…
The biggest two that pop into my head are Deep Rock Galactic, and Dwarf Fortress.
Both amazing games btw