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Re:Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales by Wowfunhappy on Monday December 03, 2018 @05:37PM (#18593861)
> The discovery algorithm serves the consumer first and foremost. When users start complaining about not being shown interesting stuff, then Valve will jump into action.

Anecdotally, I've been seeing users complain about Steam's recommendation algorithm for a long time, on gaming forums like ResetERA.

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Re:Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales by eropple on Monday December 03, 2018 @06:43PM (#18594365)
I don't recall a time when I wasn't hearing people complain about their recommendations. Steam's recommendations are legendarily bad in the circles I hang out in and I don't remember the last time I bought a game off of one. I may never have.
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