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Joshua Wolens

Steam killed its 'RPGMaker' user tag yesterday, and impacted devs are unexpectedly happy about it

Heavy from TF2 gives a thumbs-up next to a crossed-out anime lady.

Valve stuck its oar in the tides of history yesterday, performing a spring clean of Steam's user-tagging system that added 17 new tags and removed 28 old ones. Most importantly, of course, it finally settled the debate as to what the hell we all call the "Vampire Survivors-like" genre, but it also notably excised the "RPGMaker" tag, which players have long stuck on games made using RPG Maker dev tools or that look like they were made using those tools.

And, strangely enough, RPG Maker devs seem pretty happy about it.

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