• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    (without reading the article)

    Hasn’t steam had a shopping cart for like 2 decades now? You can’t just announce features pretending they’re new, who do you think you are, Apple?

    (read the article)

    Oh, it’s across devices. When has that ever been a thing, who is like “oh I really want to buy this game but I want to buy it on my desktop instead of the phone I have in my hand which I used to look up the game and I’m now on the page I want with the item in my cart, but nah I won’t complete the extra 2 taps to purchase it here and now”? I mean, yay, but…???

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      With the shopping cart syncing - Me. It’s not super annoying, but often, I add games on my steam app. Sometimes I add games on my steam deck. Sometimes I add it on my computer.

      Im probably a unique edge case.

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        10 months ago

        Not at all, I’ll see a game on a lemmy or post or while browsing steam while dropping a steamer. And the next day I’ll sit at my pc and go… the hell, I know I carted some games.

        I just started wishlisting for when I remember to check.

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        10 months ago

        I do it too. I’ll often add a few that look interesting, then go purchase later on my computer when I get time to play. If I don’t get time to play before the sale ends, I remove them.

        Other times I’d add a bunch of games and then look up reviews to narrow down what I’m going to buy.

        Also it’s easier to look up whether I own a game on other stores on my desktop vs my phone. I have a bunch of games on Epic (free claims) and GOG, but I haven’t played a bunch of them.

        Also, I prefer to buy on my desktop instead of my phone so that purchase gets registered as a Linux purchase, especially during sales when I might not install the game within the 2-week or whatever window Valve has got determining which platform the game was played on.

        In the past, I’d have to manually transfer things, but this should make things a bit easier.

        • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          Right on!

          Pricing history, and being able to see other stores and compare is a huge piece of the shopping puzzle.

          It’s extremely rare I add something to my cart and just buy it.