I wonder if it would be helpful if there were different levels or varieties of "wishes"? Like if it's a game that looks sorta interesting but I'm mostly just curious about, I could put it on a "Games to Watch" list (it would all be the same list, just different categories within the list using whatever terms work best) and then games you might like to get but aren't sure could be listed as, "Interested" and then "Wish" for those must haves games. So in this situation, we could toggle off all the Watch and/or Interested games or whatever.
What I don't understand is with all the (thousands of) WL'd games I have, my calendar is mostly blank. Like the other week Planet Crafters and Astroneers both had substantial DLC's drop and they were nowhere to be found on my calendar. I don't know if my excessive wishing is messing up the algorithms, but I'd rather have games from my WL that I'm vaguely aware that might coming out sometime soon, then a calendar comprised mostly of just blank days. I check out the Upcoming Games page almost daily to see what's new or if I missed any demos etc., so I'm fine with the Calendar being mostly games on my wish-list that I may have forgotten about or it didn't have a release date when I wished it, anything other than a mostly empty calendar, but I get your point. Not sure if this would help in that situation, and in mine, they E-mail bomb me on a daily basis so I probably won't miss anything too important, or anything at all for that matter. I'll get 3 separate ones for the same Game in a single day. The "A game on your WL just entered EA" one, then the "A game on your WL is on Sale" one, and then it'll be in one with a random assortment of other games on sale. It'd be nice if they could consolidate those down to 3 or 4 ( a list of games on sale, one with all the new releases from my WL, and all the new demos) a day instead of the sometimes DOZENS I get, but that's not really relevant here, other than it's another easily re-tooled annoyance that could be better utilized for both the customer and STEAM, but it seems suggestions often go unnoticed and unheeded.

I think maybe the creation of a wishlist calendar option and a separate non-wishlist calendar option would be a great idea here. That way, users who want to see the outlook for any games they currently have wishlisted and how far they might be from release, in a calendar format with all titles in one place, can do so, but if someone wants to see games that they have not already wishlisted, then they can view a calendar dedicated solely to upcoming releases that they might be interested in (and have not yet wishlisted).

+1 This annoyed me to see as well. There's reasons people have quote-unquote "too many" wishlisted games... I imagine this has to do with some backend processing-power limitation ability of sorts, but sounds like the solution isn't to limit users but rather just optimize your backend. I mean c'mon, this is Steam, a company with so much money, so I'm sure you guys can afford to optimize it and remove this "you have too many games -- so you dont get to have nice things" issue.

Is the Wishlisted Games: Hide option not working for you?

Originally posted by Krid:

Is the Wishlisted Games: Hide option not working for you?

greyed out, because apparently I have too many wishlisted games