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[Bellular News] People Aren't Buying New Games, So Valve Changed Steam (www.youtube.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I can't consume YouTube, so what did steam better? I noticed nothing new....

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't like this creator (Bellular News), so won't watch the video. Instead I copy description and timestamps over:

How many games have been sitting on your Steam wishlist for years? New releases are struggling to turn that interest into sales, and Valve has changed how wishlists work to help. With more players waiting for discounts, developers need their games to keep selling long after launch.

00:00 Steam's Wishlist Problem
00:34 Why New Games Are Struggling
01:23 Steam's Wishlist Changes
02:54 Do Wishlists Sell Games?
07:24 Waiting for a Sale
09:15 Surviving After Launch

Ah, I see its about the new added wishlist feature. You can now add custom tags to group your wishlist items. That was indeed a feature some people requested and I would have benefited from this in the past too. It helps reminding you why you added the game to the wishlist. Maybe its about something else, didn't watch.

Edit: In case you can watch videos on other platforms, and just don't want to or can't use YouTube directly, there is an alternative frontend: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=9HPNlYot6uY

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

I don't know anything about this creator, what is it that makes you dislike them? It seemed like a fairly ordinary video to me, but this post is on -4 votes at the time I'm commenting so I must be missing something.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

Thanks!

And yes, it indeed sounds like a feature I also was missing. Got 500 items in the wishlist. Some for like "totally buy if slightly discounted" and some shit I just like to observe.

I was close to making my own tool for that, but then it Wouldn't be integrated...