In my opinion, ignoring articles in titles is better. This practice is rather common when it comes to large sets of titles.
That's why favourites and categories created i guess. And it's pretty make no sense how big is a brand if you have a bunch of games and your loved games are in the crowd.
This is deliberate and I don't believe it's going to change so I'm going to go ahead close this.
But why is it deliberate? What's the point of this? What's the point of categories and favourites then?
Ignoring articles when alphabetizing names of books/movies/etc. is standard practice as otherwise you get large clumps of things under A, An and The. For example check the tip in http://www.wikihow.com/Alphabetize:
Ignore articles at the beginning of titles. You can disregard the words “a”, “an” or “the” if they begin a title as they are very common and can make searching through alphabetized information confusing.
I don't understand your question about categories and favorites as that seems separate from the issue you have created which only refers to leading articles in lists.
I didn't know that. So it's a kind of English(?) standardisation. In my language it isn't a standard practice and that's why I don't find this logical. Titles usually start with articles but we don't ignore them here.
I though maybe Tele42 is right and it could be a reason. That's why I asked.
I believe it's done in languages other than English but I don't know of any list. I can see how it'd be surprising if you weren't used to it. I'll reopen this as a feature request for an option to turn it on or off (or possibly an automatic language-based choice but I don't know if that's reasonable).
Would be good as a(n) opt-in/default. I would really appreciate that. It just fits better for some users I guess. Thanks.
I agree that it’s annoying. At first I was looking for the games at their correct place, and didn’t find them. Now I know so I have to mentally remember to remove the leading article, then think about the starting letter of the second word, then look there…
And I know that libraries do that (in France) but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s counter-intuitive for me. I think that in physical libraries it makes it easier to store books, but in a digital library there is no point doing that.
Same logic here. "Working" with correct information in correct order is much comfortable and that's how my mind sort the things.
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A Story About My Uncle, The Floor is Jelly, The Silent Age, The Swapper, just a few titles what listed in incorrect order because Steam ignores articles. Please fix this.