Steam News - Shopping Cart and private games - Now out of beta
Updates to purchasing, gifting, and private games are out of beta and available now to everyone on Steam.
“Purchase in secret and hide your porn games!” is pretty much what I got out of that one.
I do like the gifting to multiple friends in one order, though. It was a pain when I wanted to give multiple friends a gift and had to deal with multiple transactions.
When my coworker asked for my Steam ID, I said no, because I don't want them to know that I love playing wholesome games like Frog Detective and Tinykin, especially when im a edgelord shittalker when we play FPS games.
Frog Detective?! Absolutely disgusting, what's next, Unpacking? You degenerate 🙃
😭😭😭 that level where she moves her stuff in with the tech bro
(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.....???
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.
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.
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.
