Feature Request – Selective, Price‑Aware Wishlist Notifications

[Multiversal USB]

Summary
Steam’s current wishlist system fires a notification for every discount on every title. When a list grows beyond a handful of games, these blanket alerts create noise; many users end up disabling the channel entirely. A targeted approach would keep the signal while losing the noise.

Proposal
• Add a simple “Notify me about discounts” checkbox next to each title on the wishlist.
• Provide an optional price or discount‑percentage field (e.g., “alert me when ≤ $19.99” or “–60 % or better”).
• Leave the default state unchanged so existing behaviour continues for players who like it as‑is.

Why It Helps Players
Selective alerts mean no more inbox spam from fringe interests or “maybe someday” games, while guaranteeing that truly wanted titles never slip past unnoticed. A price threshold empowers budget‑minded users to buy the moment a dream price appears instead of waiting for the next major sale.

Why It Helps Valve
Fewer users will disable notifications outright or ignore them due to noise, as such. click‑through rates with intent to purchase rise. Alerts now arrive precisely when purchase intent peaks, at the user‑defined price, driving higher conversion without additional marketing spend. Because Steam already tracks per‑title metadata (tags, notes, ranking), implementation may only require one extra Boolean and an optional numeric field in the existing schema.

Precedent
Competitive storefronts (Humble, Amazon, IsThereAnyDeal) already let customers set price‑watch thresholds. Users coming to Steam expect similar precision and may decide where they purchase based on it.

Closing
A lightweight UI tweak turns the wishlist from a blunt instrument into a precision tool boosting user satisfaction and revenue simultaneously. Please consider adding selective, price‑aware notifications so players can hear about the deals they actually care about, exactly when they care.

[null_and_v0id]

i was about to post this exact request and figured i would search it first. as it basically hits almost all my points i will just add a few of the ones in my head.

why it helps players.

all the reasons you listed and

players will be able to set a price that they are willing to "buy in to a game" which will allow them to be alerted when and if that price threshold is reached meaning they are more likely to buy and play the games they want. happy customers

why it helps valve.

all the reasons you listed and

players are more likely to wish list games if they think that they can get them at the price they are willing to pay. also valve will be able to seeing what price people are willing to pay for what games and when. that is a VERY powerful data set for almost no cost to them. which they can pass on [or sell] to publishers. happy valve

why it helps developers.

if the developers have access to this data they can see what value their target audience rates similar games. this would help publishers price games more accurately in the future. happy devs

why that helps everyone.

publishers being able to price games according to what the audience is willing to pay will lead to more sales at a price that makes the consumers feel like they got what they wanted at a fair price. this means that instead of assigning an arbitrary number to a sale they can decide what discount will get them the target percentage they were hoping to net with the sale. meaning the people that made/published the game can get paid and keep making games. this will ultimately set the stage for a more stable and equitable game market. happy everyone.

conclusion

the original poster is spot on. myself and all of my friends have wanted this feature for a long time and never thought of making the suggestion before now. please implement this there is basically no downside for anyone

[Multiversal USB]

Originally posted by null_and_v0id:

i was about to post this exact request and figured i would search it first. as it basically hits almost all my points i will just add a few of the ones in my head...

Thanks for the support. It's kinda sad a legitimate suggestion like this gets buried by unserious hate meme threads. I get the impression that it is likely too difficult to be worth it for valve to even bother really looking at the suggestions due to the prevalence of unserious ones (one where the poster themselves clearly could not be serious about the request) unfortunately.

[Princess Luna]

Fewer users will disable notifications outright or ignore them due to noise, as such. click‑through rates with intent to purchase rise.

You dont getting the game does not make valve sad

[Cara]

Was this AI written? Anyway, I agree that it would be nice just to get a notification only when something is on sale for a specific discount amount.

[Garbage]

I like this a lot.