Wishlist Usage Poll

I wish Steam allowed for multiple wishlists, like Amazon or something like that.

i arrange top 20 by how much I want it. The rest are the games I would like to play in the future or the ones whose requirements my pc don't meet. So I do use it, a lot

I add games I want to play to my wishlist; if something catches my interest but not in a "I need to have this as soon as possible", I click on "Follow" instead and review the followed games every once in a while and either kick them out or add them to wishlist

I add any game I am interested in playing at all to my wishlist. Then I automatically get email notifications when games show up in bundles or are discounted past a certain percent (I use isthereanydeal.com. I'm not sure, but gg.deals might do notifications as well). It is also helpful to view my wishlist and sort by price of discount percent when there is a major Steam sale to see if there is anything worth buying.

I don't pay much attention to Steam store as prices are nearly always astronomical compared to offers from legit retailers. I use ITAD and GGdeals for wishlisting games. You get notified via email if a game on your wishlist meets your criteria for buying same as on Steam.

I track games Id like to play, but I usually buy when I have time to play them and when they get near max discount.

I do wish there was more than one wishlist, so I could separate "games I'm going to buy as soon as I can/goes on sale" and "games I want to remember otherwise I may forge, but still want to play", but overall I just put anything I am interested in on there.

Augmented Steam/Enhanced Steam also just works better with me doing it this way.

I'm using it actively to keep track of games I intend to purchase. So, a step above "just interested in". I'm focused on clearing my backlog right now, so there is only one released game in there along with a few unreleased sequels to other games.

I mostly add games which I feel like I might like a lot. Kinda like a "yeah, I think these look pretty cool" list. And, yeah, I do rearrange stuff if I found out something new than makes me more interested in a particular game. ^_^
I also always keep it under 100 games, so if it's threatening to go over that number I go over all the games and reassess some of them in more details to make free up space.

...All of that is a rather meaningless gesture since I very rarely buy games for myself nowadays and quite a few games there are way above what I'd be willing to pay, even on sale (I'm looking at you, Code Vein!), because I'm stingy and also because no money. :X

This is actually a good line of questioning, as many sites accesses the Steam Wish List (including SG) but as users use their wish list in different ways that can ''pervert'' the way users and sites interact with it.

My take on it is that the Steam wish list is probably made so that you can add the games you wish for, games you really want and want to play, but are not in a position to buy for yourself at the moment. Then friends on Steam or users on different sites can access that list and gift you the game, or like here: Make GA's for those games.

But I don't use the wish list that way at all, not even close. I place any game that catches my eye in any form at all on my wish list, so I get an e-mail alert when it is on sale. Then I can revisit the store page, read up on it again, possibly look into some YT game play videos, and then possibly buy it or decide against it and remove it from the list. Or let it sit until it's even cheaper.

This, of course, makes my wish list virtually unusable for anyone else than me. Firstly it is vast. There's many many many games on there. You will simply not get a sense of what type of games I really like by watching it. And sites like SG and its users will frown upon such a wish list, as it doesn't "fit the bill" on what many here think it should be like.
And lastly, for myself it makes for harder browsing of the wish list GA's, as that page is a horrifying mix of games I want, of games I might like, and games I just thought oooooh, what nice colours when I was drunk one night six months ago.... Worth it though. Totally worth it.

Possibly something sites should explore more, because a community statistical wish list popular game might just not really be that, but possible be a I'll buy this shit if it goes for below a dollar-game instead.

I add games to my wishlist when I am (pretty) sure I will like it, I always just sort it by discount since I only buy good discounted games, games that look nice but are either not out or don't really have reviews yet and so I can't be sure I add to my Follow list.
When I see a game has a nice discount I will check the game again to be 100% sure and then I usually buy it.

I add anything I'm interested in enough to potentially purchase to my wishlist. Arranging? Sorting? I'll pull my most-wanted up to the top X spots to participate in the occasional giveaway but otherwise who has time for that?

I add everything that looks more or less interesting to me (that's plenty, currently I have 310 games on my wishlist, although maybe one-third of them haven't been released yet or maybe will never be released) and filter it by discount. Needless to say, later I can buy something with 25-30% discount and ignore other games with 75%+ discount.

If i'm interested in playing it I add it to my wishlist, but my backlog is still pretty intimidating so I just have it sorted by discount so I can pick something up if it's a "can't pass that up" offer.
Whenever a big sale hits I usually buy the highest discounted games off it and one or two I absolutely want to play. I'm cheap. :P

I use wishlist to easily keep track of games I have some interest in and to see any discounts on them.
Pretty much any other game gets ignored using the ignore feature. Makes it easier to find things I am interested in if most of the trash is ignored/hidden.

I use it as a way to keep track of games that might be interesting as well as games I know I want to play. I tried to put the games I really wanted to play on the top of the list and the ones that are out of interest are simply in the rest of the list unorganized. I find it more useful for games I might forget exist than really popular AAA games. There's been times where I really like a genre so I look up that genre on Steam and wishlist high rated games that look fun in that genre.

Added to all this, my wishlist is synced with isthereanydeal so I can track deals for games or find out if they've been bundled. I also like wishlisting unreleased games that look interesting (tend to add lots during game conferences like E3 especially), so I can see when they're released. If the release doesn't seem so great in terms of gameplay or reviews I might then decide to remove the game from my list or move it up the list if the release shows the game is really good.

One last use case is I have a couple of games in other platforms that I own but keep in my wishlist at the bottom if I ever want to see some games I really want to play that are outside of Steam. Once I've completed such a game I remove it from the wishlist.

Because I use the wishlist this way, my wishlist is pretty large. I consider it more of an "interest list" for this reason as there isn't really any other way to keep track of interesting games on Steam that I know of. I have gotten a bit more strict in recent years as to what I put on the list probably as a result of the lists size. A couple of times I've ordered the wishlist by rating and try to prune out low rated games that might not interest me anymore.

I used to use my wishlist to "bookmark" games, back when i only browsed steam in the client. As a result, stuff went in that later was removed. Then and now, I use it to keep track of stuff I want urgently, want to play someday, etc. Sometimes I will add a game to my wishlist--even though I have no intention of spending money on it--just to make easier the task of searching for SG giveaways for that game. In a few months, not having won it, that game might come out. Or not. I should spend more time sorting it, but....
I try to keep games I really want in the top 50/100. (As I sort through it, I will sometimes say "this game belongs at position X" and then send it to position X, without caring about the game I sent to position X 5 minutes ago, which is now X+1--or even X+20.)
That being said, I sometimes just plunk games in there and leave sorting for later.

I, too, wish steam allowed an "interested in" list and a "track to buy" list.

I almost always leave the wishlist filtered by "75% off>discounts. I really wish that steam allowed adjusting/sorting by numeric order when filters are applied.

Probably over 95% of games on my WL are games, that I've found about through SG GAs and find particularly interesting for different reasons. By defaulf my WL is ordered by discount, so if I check it, I see, if any of them are on sale, but usually it has to be 90% off before I consider buying. But then I'm happy with my GeForce 940M and older games ;)