Leading dwarven games get their way after all

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The two dwarven games Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic got together and, in a dwarven uprising, demanded that “dwarves” have their own day on Steam. Valve fought back – but in vain. On February 2nd they gave in.

This was the demand:

  • The two successful games with dwarves as main characters on Steam, Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic, demanded from Steam that “dwarf” be a separate tag with which to mark games on Steam.
  • Because if “werewolves” or “vampires” had their own tags, then the same would definitely apply to dwarves.
  • Steam rejected this: elves aren’t a day either. But the dwarves only felt more motivated by this and said: We don’t care, dwarves are much cooler.

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    “Dwarves of all games unite!”

    That was the plan now: Steam had made it clear to the developers that if enough players started using “dwarves” as a tag in games, then the tag could be added.

    The dwarves then asked their players on January 31st to use the “dwarf” tag, then Steam would recognize the value of the “dwarf” tag.

    Steam first “trolls” dwarves with elf tag, then gives in

    This is how Steam reacted: Steam made fun of it on February 1st and added the “Eleven” tag first.

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    When the dwarves wrote down indignantly, they gave in on February 2nd and added “dwarf” too.

    The dwarves cheered, but as everyone knows, they are greedy little bastards and are now demanding that the “rock” tag be added to Steam as a matter of urgency.

    Other members of marginalized groups on Steam are now jealous of the dwarves and are demanding their own hash tags: For example, there are now calls for a “crab tag” from the crab game “Another Crab’s Tresauere”.

    How is it in practice?? “Dwarf Fortress” and “Deep Rock Galactic” are now both actually marked “Dwarf”, also in the German version. Apparently the translation is still missing here.

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