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Automatic wishlist tier weighting on steam wishlist import #313

Open letraitplat opened 1 year ago

letraitplat commented 1 year ago

What problem does this feature address?

On my end I mostly wishlist stuff directly on my steam UIs, may it be web / steamdeck / phone. I end up having a huge wishlist, but it's not "weighed". Even asking only for wishlisted games to potential traders, doesn't help them in selecting some games from their tradable to pick, and you may end up having a bit of everything in there. We end up having offers that don't exactly match each other's preferences, therefore creating lots of declining or offer adjusting.

Describe a solution

I see Barter allows for a 5 tier trading tag, but AFAIK this relies on manually doing it through barter. How about using additional properties from steam such as the "Note" feature. If barter is able to fetch content from that data source, we could define a label written in that note. IE user could write a short [t1] [t2] [t3] [t4] [t5] in the "note" field from steam, and, on wishlist sync, barter would automatically apply corresponding tier tag to the entry in user's wishlist. image

Examples of similar features

None that I am aware of

Luckz commented 1 year ago

That is no Steam feature to begin with. It's Augmented Steam. image

Typing a string on an app store page isn't really easier than clicking a button to go to the corresponding Barter page and setting a tier tag there. 😝

letraitplat commented 1 year ago

That is no Steam feature to begin with. It's Augmented Steam. image

You're right, I realized only later on

Typing a string on an app store page isn't really easier than clicking a button to go to the corresponding Barter page and setting a tier tag there. 😝

It's not a matter of how long it is, it's a matter of separating UX's that are very different one is browsing and discovering games, creating wish to follow => on steam page one is, well, bartering (managing stuff we want, creating offers, etc). Barter is brilliant at providing this second UX. Not so much for the first part, that many of us handle on steam. The ability to add some "hey tier it that way" in the flow of wishlisting makes way more sense to do while on steam than on Barter So the friction is not on how long it is to typing something, but more in managing 2 different websites with so different UXs