Separate new historical low from matching historical low

Royalgamer06

It would be a nice feature, if they were separated. SteamDB deals does the same thing.

SirHazza

Love this idea, so simple but communicates some really useful information.

Royalgamer06 SteamDB deals does the same thing.

This is how SteamDB does it:

I would suggest we use a similar green/blue system.

The site already uses green for historical lows:

Add in blue if its a new low.

remike

Bump. I wonder if anyone else finds this suggestion useful.

TheSameDunce

remike This would be highly useful and I think it should be taken further than this.

Right now we can show only Historical Lows. We should be able to show more than that and you could color code each one. For example, currently Historical Lows is green. Change this to New Historical but make it blue and also add Matching Historical Low and make it green. Then, go a step further and add Near Historical Low and make it a different color, say yellow. Then add Distancing(this name could use work but it was a quick thought) Historical Low and make it orange. And then finally, the last one could be something like New Release or Recent Release and make it red.

Now whenever people view the website they'll know exactly the games that are currently priced at a new historical low, matching a previous historical low, are nearly hitting a historical low, whether they're distancing themselves away from a historical low or if they're just released or recently released games. It's like a warning system of sorts, exactly like Defcon but backwards on how we react to it. Blue means no risk of overpaying and maximum readiness to buy. Green means little to no risk of overpaying and very elevated readiness to buy. Yellow means neutral risk of overpaying and elevated readiness to buy. Orange means high risk of overpaying but above normal readiness to wait out a future buy. Red means severe risk of overpaying but readiness to wait out a future buy.

Something to think about. Take this and tweak it as you wish. The goal is to make deals stand out exactly as they are versus having to look further into it ourselves.

SirHazza

TheSameDunce Then, go a step further and add Near Historical Low and make it a different color, say yellow. Then add Distancing(this name could use work but it was a quick thought) Historical Low and make it orange. And then finally, the last one could be something like New Release or Recent Release and make it red.

Whilst I think power users like myself would be okay with this, a system like this risks being too complex for your average user. The SteamDB system seems to have worked well for them, so I think it's best to start there.

But you did raise a good point about new games, currently it's not easy to tell if a game is a new release.

I have raised feedback on this in a potential solution here: Add 'New' and 'Pre-order' badges to games

TheSameDunce

SirHazza Whilst I think power users like myself would be okay with this, a system like this risks being too complex for your average user.

Then make it 4 colors instead of 5. Get rid of Distancing Historical Low, leaving it to look like this...

Blue - New Historical Low
Green - Matching Historical Low
Yellow - Near Historical Low
Red - New/Recent Release

I like the Near Historical Low a lot because it lets people know about deals they would not be significantly overpaying for and often times a game is at a Near Historical Low price instead of actually matching it. Especially games released many years ago and no longer hit their Historical Low that maybe occurred a decade ago. Introducing a Near Historical Low would give said game a much greater chance to be purchased and some recognition that it even exists.

To determine a Near Historical Low it could maybe be based on a percentage away from its Historical Low, say 5-20%.

The point is that while I browse SteamDB I always wish there was a Near Historical Low on there because outside of browsing all the Blue New Historical Lows and all the Green Matching Historical Lows, I'm then just viewing everything else.

With a Near Historical Low, it narrows the rest of the games down, just as the Blue and Green ones do. It gives you an extra set of games to sift through that you'd actually consider buying.

Royalgamer06

I do have a use case that applies to me quite often, where I am looking for specific shops (e.g. gamivo or indiegala) where their listing is Near Historical/Current Low. But I am not sure how you would integrate this.

alif

What happens when the new historical low is negligibly less than the historical law? It will just be noise.