Steam recommendations now show less bias toward popular games
(Windows Phone Central)

Steam recommendations are now more diverse. What you need to know Valve has updated its recommendation algorithms in Steam to show a more diverse set of games. You`ll now see fewer popular games, which many gamers have complained about in the past. The change is live for every Steam user now. Valve recently updated the way Steam handles recommendations to serve up a more diverse set of games. Now, you`ll see more variety in your recommendations, rather than being flooded with only popular titles. From Valve: We found some bugs, such as the `Similar by Tags` section of the Recommendation Feed, which had a bug that top-rated games (a category that doesn`t change very often) were driving too much of what players saw. We changed that. We also found that in some places our timescale used to calculate popularity was too narrow, resulting in unpredictable visibility for some games. So we expanded the time period we use in those calculations. Valve said that it initially tested its c...