Sale Notifications

[cdarklock]

I don't want a notification when games go on sale. This is Steam. Games go on sale several times a day. The notifications are spammy af. How do I turn this off?

[Scene]

+1 I want to know that too.

[Pierce Dalton]

You mean the pop up notifications when you login? AFAIK you can't get rid of them.

[UrbanMech]

Uncheck "Notify me about additions or changes to my games, new releases, and upcoming releases." under interface.

[Crazy Tiger]

OP, are you in the beta and do you mean the green envelop? I heard that this was a new addition, that sales discounts not just send emails but also notification spam. I think there is a thread in the beta hub about that. I do hope they add a toggle, cause I want as few notifications as possible. Just mails is enough for me.

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

You mean the pop up notifications when you login? AFAIK you can't get rid of them.

Those can be disabled via the settings: Steam top left- >settings ->Interface ->bottom one disable "Notify me about additions or changes to my games, new releases and upcoming releases". That gets rid of the popups.

[UrbanMech]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

OP, are you in the beta and do you mean the green envelop? I heard that this was a new addition, that sales discounts not just send emails but also notification spam. I think there is a thread in the beta hub about that. I do hope they add a toggle, cause I want as few notifications as possible. Just mails is enough for me.

Interesting. If it had a separate notification button like with Steam News I could see this being nice but combined with everything else doesn't sound good.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

People have been suggesting wishlist notifications in the client itself for years. We warned them what could happen if it was implemented and we got just what they asked for, with no toggle to turn them off.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by GhostBear:

Uncheck "Notify me about additions or changes to my games, new releases, and upcoming releases." under interface.

I don't know for a fact that this works, but I did find that it was turned on, so I turned it off. Will see if it helps.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

OP, are you in the beta and do you mean the green envelop? I heard that this was a new addition, that sales discounts not just send emails but also notification spam.

Yep, I am in the beta and this is new. I didn't mind the first couple times but every time I open Steam I have like four more "a game on your wishlist is on sale" notifications and my real notifications are lost in the shuffle.

[J4MESOX4D]

I'm not in the client so I don't know what changes have been made in relation to wishlist notifications for games going on sale but it sounds like those with volumes of games are been lambasted with notifications.

Surely the best thing Valve could do is curate a blank page where any wishlisted games that are currently reduced show on this page in a typical wall format.

I don't have a big wishlist but if someone has 500 games and 50 are reduced in a reasonably sized sale then it would be ideal to have a filtered page that showcase just these games. Single notifications just sounds daft and god help people when the big sales start.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Surely the best thing Valve could do is curate a blank page where any wishlisted games that are currently reduced show on this page in a typical wall format.

You can already sort your wishlist by discount, so the games that are on sale go to the top.

It's really useful when you're bored and want a new game but don't want to spend a lot of money; you hit the old wishlist and sort by discount, then by price if nothing grabs you.

This notification thing reminds me of what happens on the Epic store, which is absolutely awful. Do not use Epic as a model for anything, Tim Sweetney is the devil