Organizing Wish List // Store Filters

[Winter]

So I have a games wish list.. but not all the games on that list are wanted equally or even nearly so. Sure you have a priority way to list things but I'd like to see further improvements. One of them being a note I can add to wish list items. Also I'd like to be able to have several wish lists with different names I can name.

Some are games that I may NEVER buy unless they go on the mac platform. or on a serious sale. Others are on that list for another reason (they are beta or something). So my suggestion is to allow us to customize the wish list. Also add the symbols for which platform they are on. I'm a mac user and I still buy windows games but usually they are less priority unless they are very popular games. So I want to see which games on my wish lists are mac playable or not.

Summary:
1) Allow us several wish lists that we can name
2) Please put platform symbols on the wish list games listing (windows, mac, linux etc)
3) Also put general community sentiment on wish list items (mixed, positive, overwhelming etc)
4) Allow us to permanently filter out games we already "own" elsewhere (mac app store etc).
5) Optional: Allow us to put personal notes on a wish list item. (Why we haven't bought it yet)
6) One more thing.. Allow us to see the un-owned DLC for all games we own. This past week there was brand new DLC for two favorite games which I had no idea about.

I came acoss both DLCs by accident. My collection at 300 games is already big enough that I am not easily able to keep track of these things. Adding a permanent ignore button to some DLC would be cool also as I don't buy silly soundtracks and "making of" that often if at all especially where it concerns the DLC filter.

So again this is a store filter of some sort... or library/store filter of:
un-owned DLC for games we already owned.

Thank you!

[wuddih]

1. i dont care, i dont need it. 3rd party tools already do this.

2. one liner, 3rd party tools already do this, might be better when Valve would do it instead.

3. one liner, 3rd party too ... err no, why would you put crap on your wishlist?

4. will not happen, no one lets customers hide products permanently. content deliveres give Valve a cut to be able to sell on steam, so any ignore function would be a contract breach with devs, it is also bad for revenue. 1 guy who buys something because it was displayed is worth more then 1000 people who complaining about to see more then they want and ... 3rd party tools already do this.

5. "GIMEM GAME FOR FREE PL0X", nope but ... 3rd party tools already do this, dunno if this is made visible for others, since i dont use it.

6. i personally have no problems with people buying games that they dont play, but dlc? if someone is interested in a game, he might be interested in that dlc and will look it up, so i see no reason to present a user all DLC he doesn't own. for games which have opted into a fully dlc driven content distribution this will make the list cluttered with DLC of just these titles, rocksmith f.e. ... not to mention this is more of an extensive task on the servers and ... 3rd party tools already do this.

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"3rd party tools already do this" is one of the reasons some of this stuff will never happen. scaling some features and make them useable for 10+ million concurrent users is a complete other dimension then getting the additional page requests that those 3rd party tools will generate.

[Upper Dave]

Absolutely agree. I'd use these features and more very often.

[Winter]

Hey Wuddlh thanks for your i input but no thanks... I have no desire to use third party products with questionable security features implemented.. 'cause that's how you get your steam account stolen. So there is no issue with asking Steam to do it natively. I don't have addons to my steam client nor do I know of any that work with mac.

And you dont work for Steam so go ♥♥♥♥ an egg.

P. S. Hiding content I'm _never_ going to buy cause I already _own_ it makes absolute sense.
There are plenty of options for me to buy stuff and I can always go to the "ignore list" I have to buy stuff if I really needed it. Valve makes TONS of money off me otherwise on the stuff I do want to buy. Believe me I've already made my decision on DLC once I've seen it. Even if a soundtrack is on sale for 10 cents I'm NOT going to buy that crap. Who listens to soundtracks outside a game or movie anyway? I don't. The whle reason for suggesting it was that all that crap would mess up the filtered DLC list I suggested.

Oh and no where in my original post did I ask or even suggest I wanted free games. Not sure where you got that from. You obviously didn't read my post.. You seem like a troll also. You're ignored.

[blitzwarm4st3r]

Agree on this

[wuddih]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Winter:

Oh and no where in my original post did I ask or even suggest I wanted free games. Not sure where you got that from. You obviously didn't read my post.. You seem like a troll also. You're ignored.

your "(Why we haven't bought it yet)" comment implied that the notes should be readable by other people.
if the note on an wishlist item would be readable for someone else then this was an example of what you will find on these notes the most.
"this" <- you know these things? if i would have quoted something from you, i would have used the quote function like now.

i completely read your post. i just provide some background knowledge for your suggestions, i don't care how you take it. Valve was always reliant on 3rd parties. half of their game franchises were 3rd party and as long as something exists in 3rd party and is not really relevant for them, they will just accept the existance.

if you post suggestions on a discussion board and expect no discussion and pure agreement for naive ideas, don't be disappointed then when nothing of those will ever be implemented.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Winter:

P. S. Hiding content I'm _never_ going to buy cause I already _own_ it makes absolute sense.

your mind is influenceable, you can absolutely hate broccoli, 2 weeks later and it is the only thing you will eat. there is nothing that is ever or never, especially not your taste/mood. so no reason to let you hide anything. letting you hide a few games on a store with 8000+ games will not improve their revenue.

Day One: Garry's Incident (Owners: 95,138 ± 6,678)
Even garbage is purchased by someone completely aware that it is garbage.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Winter:

I don't have addons to my steam client nor do I know of any that work with mac.

there are no addons for steam client. steam is mostly a website ... i let you think of the rest yourself since you don't want me to talk here ;)

[Winter]

your "(Why we haven't bought it yet)" comment implied that the notes should be readable by other people.


Well thanks for reading it wrong... the suggestion for personal notes is personal only. I will update my original post so trolls like you don't take the opportunity to make something out of my post that it isn't.

And my suggestions here are for Valve only not some low life steam user with nothing else to do.

I have bought most of the hundreds/thousands worth of games I have with the Steam client not with my web browser. It is the client I launch to play games.. that is Valve's best opportunity to present their best usable store. Right now it isnt.

My ignored DLC wishlist mainly concerns my suggested DLC filter. That filter is for stuff I want.. not what I dont want. So if I dont want it.. I dont want it and no amount of pushing it in my face is going to make me buy it. My filters should be what I choose.

That is important. When you get hundreds or thousands of games you will end up seeing a great deal of DLC.. Listing the ones you aren't going to buy or more importantly already bought defeats the purpose of seeting NEW DLC that you do want to buy.

Again Valve almost lost the opportunity for me to buy any DLC at all because I didn't even know about it.

There is no DLC store.. no way to filter out the NOISE that is the entire store. If I want to check for DLC in my games I have to go manually to the store page for each and every game. If they actually added a filter that shows me new DLC that I might want then this wouln't happen anymore. But show me the same old DLC I dont want every time and its the same thing all over again. Information overload/blindness.

Hell they do that on the front page with games I already bought on steam. Many of us have to scroll forever till we find games we didn't already buy. If they wanted to actually sell more they would filter that out also.

[Mouse Lover]

I agree on this

[Indru]

For point 3, what are the third party tools that do that? I'm interested but can't find.