So it’s great when people post things like the recent “games with interesting mechanics” thread…

But inevitably, I end up adding some games to my Steam wishlist, and then 6 months later the game goes on sale and I’ll get a notification and be like “uh… wait, what is this game? Why is it on my wishlist?” It would sure be great if my wishlist could have a link back to the Lemmy post / TikTok video / Polygon article / whatever that convinced me to wishlist it…

Anyone figured out a good way of keeping track of that? I know there are some price-tracking sites with wishlist functionality… any of them do anything like this?

  • Ranjeliq@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sorry - my reply won’t be really helpful to you, but I still want to say it because I think I have a bit different perspective on that problem and maybe that will be of use to someone.

    I actually use that “forgot for half a year” approach to “curate” my wishlist. I usually aggresively wishlist a bunch of games during game events and so on, and then, about once a year I return to my wishlist and ask myself, if I still remember what were in those games that caught my eye, are they still interesting to me? If I do not, and looking at trailer and/or screenshots does not hype me up again, then it does not worth spending on (at least right now). Then I remove those that I decided to not play at all from the wishlist.

    • rocker@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Same, I return during the two major annual sales (summer/winter) and purge then. If I can’t be further enticed when the price is good, then I know it shouldn’t be on the list.

  • Auster@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    I use LibreOffice’s Calc for tracking stuff.

    …yes, adding data is a chore. But at least I don’t have a limit on platforms to add.

  • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I can’t help you with this, as I just logged in to IsThereAnyDeal to check if they had a way to add notes to a wishlisted item and it seems they don’t.

    BUT, thank you for making this post because it turned out Aven Colony was on sale for £3.19 and I must have missed their email!

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    https://steamdb.info/extension/

    I use steam DB to track my wish list prices. But I genuinely forget why I wish listed something. I just assume if it’s on my wish list and the price is low enough I’ll just buy it. And figure it out. I typically buy games around $5. So at that point I’m willing to take a risk on forgetfulness.

    But I’d say for most games I remember why I found it interesting. Sometimes I have no clue. It’s just part of the adventure