Anti-Wishlist

[deRami]

It would be nice if we could flag games in the Store as games we never want. Either "want" / "don't want" flag, or an Anti-Wishlist they could be added to. Currently I use the "wishlist" but someone may see that and actually think I want a game thats on it.

[𝕊𝕋𝕌ℝ𝕄-𝕂𝔸𝕋]

Um, perhaps refrain from adding games you don't want, to the er...wishlist?

[deRami]

You miss my point. I want to be able to list the games I've already researched and decided I will not like. For now (unless I'm overlooking it) there are only 2 listings available "wishlist" and "shopping cart". I'm definitely not adding them to the Cart

[𝕊𝕋𝕌ℝ𝕄-𝕂𝔸𝕋]

true, though my point is...no one should be buying you games that arent on your wishlist...wouldn't they think to check if you want it? Additionally, any gifts you receive come with the option of accepting it or not.

If you have your own personal list of games that you don't want...you can simply decline the GENEROUS offer.

Why make a more complicated user interface with even more categories?

[Dagnabbit]

Originally posted by derami:

You miss my point. I want to be able to list the games I've already researched and decided I will not like. For now (unless I'm overlooking it) there are only 2 listings available "wishlist" and "shopping cart". I'm definitely not adding them to the Cart

Revolutionary idea here, but you could always...I dunno...use a notebook? You know, pen and paper? Write things down? If someone gets you a game you didn't want because it's on your wishlist, it's because YOU are doing it wrong and not someone else.

[Ergroilnin]

Well I would like this for other reason. I could add there the games I don't like and don't plan on buying and once added on the anti-wishlist, they wouldn't come up in searches etc. anymore, so I wouldn't have to scroll past the tons of games I don't want each time.

[SiViG]

Maybe extend on that idea some more, for example, add an optional reason for adding a game to that anti-wishlist, like 3rd party drm restriction or language/region restriction so that the publisher may have some more stats on how to improve. Bonus points for notifications if such restrictions cease to exist, and the game is a viable purchase.

[Athena_Colt]

Hi Derami, I'm not sure that would be a useful feature whatsover. It's sort of an after thought very few users would need. The store is not exactly 'cluttered' on the home page meaning that, if you see a game you don't like, just ignore it or skip past it.

I also think that many people change their opinions on games. Orginally, I would never have bought the Walking Dead because I hate the TV show and the point and click genre seems too retro to me. Yet, if I had clicked 'anti-wishlist' and it never appeared again, I may not have been reminded of it to give it a try, therefore missing out on a great gaming experience. I'd say such a function has little need within Steam tbh.

[Jormundgand]

I would really really really like to have this feature. I often look through the slow list of games, click a game to check if I might want to play it, go back, scroll past a few dosen pages, click a game I might want to play, go back, scroll past the same few dosen pages and then give up. If I could click a little button that said "Nope, this I am not interested in. Go away", I would be a much happier man.

Combined with the proposals of SiViG this would be a killer feature.

[Athena_Colt]

Okay, so instead of quickly clicking through pages, you now have to click on every single game and say 'do not show up' instead. That sounds like the exact same laborious problem.

[Jormundgand]

Originally posted by Athena_Colt:

Okay, so instead of quickly clicking through pages, you now have to click on every single game and say 'do not show up' instead. That sounds like the exact same laborious problem.

Instead of always having to click through the same pages over and over again, I slowly filter out the games I have already looked at -- why would anyone want to look at a every game? Besides, the wish/anti-wish buttons could just as easily be placed in the list instead of only at the games store page.

[Athena_Colt]

So 'slowly' filtering out games you have already looked at is going to be a faster, less annoying process than just skipping past them? Why would anyone sign up for a something you've admitted would be so 'slow'.

Okay, so you have clicked on a new page, 2 of 300 lets say. There are 20 hits. Oh you don't like 18 of them? Well how would you know you dont like them wthout clicking on the store page and reading about them/the reviews? Are you going to just pan it based on the titles? So you've read the info and the reviews, you don't like the game, you click 'anti-wishlist'. 17 more on that page to go...

[Athena_Colt]

Even if you were going to just pan games based on the 'list' title, in the example I have given above you'd still have to click 18 times on one page as opposed to just skipping the page. Totally pointless and frankly, stupid.

[Jormundgand]

The alternative is to keep things as they are -- I always have to look at those 18 titles, even if I have looked at them thousands of times before. I can't get rid of them. One click and I never have to look at one of them again. Whenever I look at the other 17 titles, I only have 17 titles to look at. Guess what happens after I've looked at another 15 titles I didn't like? Yeap.. only 2 titles left to look at.

[Athena_Colt]

So one way to replace a mild annoyance of flicking through a few pages of games you don't want to purchase on any given day, is to replace it with another mild annoyance of having to check and click every time you don't like the look of a game. It's an over engineered solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

If i'm using Netflix and I don't like an option, would I want to click 'anti-wishlist' so it doesnt appear again? Of course not, because on another day I may like the look of it. Same goes with games, especially if it's on a sale. Only a moron would choose that over simply ignoring the choice.

[Fork_Q2]

No thanks, an antiwishlist is just so negative. If you change your mind in the future, you could still lose out on lots of similar games as well.