Allow user to specify precedence of genres

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When sorting games with multiple genres into single-genre categories, it would 
be nice if the user could specify an order of precedence for depressurizer to 
use in deciding which of a game's multiple genres should be used as its 
single-genre designation.

For example, a game that has "Action, Adventure, Indie" currently gets labeled 
as "Action" if single-genre mode is being used. However, it may be nice to be 
able to specify an order of precedence like "Free to Play > RPG > Adventure > 
Strategy > Action > Indie" such that the example game would instead get labeled 
as "Adventure".

Original issue reported on code.google.com by benshadw...@gmail.com on 31 May 2013 at 3:34

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I should mention that this would also address inconsistencies like the fact 
that the Elder Scrolls games get labeled as RPGs, while Fallout: New Vegas gets 
labeled as Action.

Original comment by benshadw...@gmail.com on 31 May 2013 at 3:35

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This is interesting. I'm not entirely sure it'll actually result in 
significantly better categorizations in the end, but it's worth a try and 
adding an extra option can't hurt.

There is already some ordering going on with the categories on the store page 
(a game could be "Action, Adventure" just as easily as "Adventure, Action") and 
for the MOST part it seems like the first one is arguable the most reasonable, 
but it's always the unreasonable ones (Super Meat Boy is casual!?) that stand 
out.

In light of this, I think the best way to do this might be to allow a user to 
assign different priorities to different categories, rather than a straight A > 
B > C ordering. This way, you can still achieve strict ordering if you want it, 
but you can also do something simpler by giving, for example, the Indie 
category the lowest priority and otherwise just relying on whatever Steam's 
first category is.

Original comment by rallion on 31 May 2013 at 4:20

• Changed state: Accepted
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Original comment by rallion on 31 May 2013 at 4:27

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Sounds like your proposed approach will provide the user with even more 
effective behavior options, so I'm all for it.

Original comment by benshadw...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2013 at 3:12