Feature Suggestion – Filter games by current wallet balance

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Lua_2.0 14 Jul @ 3:42pm

Hi!
I’d like to suggest a small but very useful feature for the Steam Store.

It would be great if there was a filter that allows users to view only the games that can be purchased with their current Steam Wallet balance.

For example, if I have €3.27 in my wallet, I should be able to filter the store to only show games (including discounted ones) that I can afford with that amount.

This would make it much easier to spend leftover wallet funds, especially during sales, instead of manually filtering for games under €5 or €10 and checking each price individually.

Thanks for considering this!

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Ettanin 14 Jul @ 3:47pm

Unlikely to happen. Every business that seeks to make profit aims at upselling you more products, Valve is no different.

Lua_2.0 14 Jul @ 3:49pm

Originally posted by Ettanin:
Unlikely to happen. Every business that seeks to make profit aims at upselling you more products, Valve is no different.

But why don’t they try to sell me things that I can buy

HikariLight 14 Jul @ 3:54pm

Originally posted by Lua_2.0:
Originally posted by Ettanin:
Unlikely to happen. Every business that seeks to make profit aims at upselling you more products, Valve is no different.
But why don’t they try to sell me things that I can buy

You can filter items in the store by their price.
So just adjust it by the price range you wish to have prices at.

Lua_2.0 14 Jul @ 3:56pm

Originally posted by Ettanin:
Unlikely to happen. Every business that seeks to make profit aims at upselling you more products, Valve is no different.

That’s actually a good point — it makes sense from a business perspective.
But that’s also exactly why this feature should exist.
Not everyone wants to top up more money just to spend a few cents more.
Having a filter based on wallet balance gives more control to the user, especially during sales when every cent counts.

In the end, it wouldn’t hurt Valve either — people would still spend what they have, just more efficiently.

Lua_2.0 14 Jul @ 3:57pm

Originally posted by HikariLight:
Originally posted by Lua_2.0:
But why don’t they try to sell me things that I can buy
You can filter items in the store by their price.
So just adjust it by the price range you wish to have prices at.

5€ it’s to far from like 2€ , I will spend so much time to find something that I can actually buy