u/aurorialus

Not sure if anyone else has experienced this... but I just encountered a devastatingly cruel glitch with Steam's new Wishlist Categories.

My wishlist contains over 900 items (a mixed bag of games, DLC, and software), and I had spent a significant amount of time manually ranking everything in my preferred purchase priority order.

Today, I decided to try out the recently added custom category tags. I created a couple categories, watched them appear as filters underneath the search bar in real time, clicked around to see how they worked, and immediately got excited. This is a wishlist feature I've been wanting for years.

Then I had a brilliant idea: Priority Level Tags!

I removed a category tag from a game, intending to come back and reorganize it later. I clicked "Done"... and that, my friends, is when horror struck.

My wishlist page flashed for a brief moment, and my beautiful ranking order was left completely scrambled.

Panic set in.

I refreshed the page. Nothing.

I toggled the sort-by filters. Nothing.

I changed the options filters. Nothing.

My carefully curated ranking appears to have vanished into the digital void.

Unless this is somehow intended behavior, I'm calling this a bug. But also a PSA: if you've spent countless hours manually organizing your wishlist, you may want to be careful experimenting with the new category system.

TL;DR: 900+ item wishlist. Manually ranked order. Edited new customizable categories. Removing a tag completely scrambled my ranking.

EDIT: Just to clarify that it didn't delete anything, thankfully, just randomized the manual order.

EDIT 2: Valve has apparently fixed the bug, and is looking into restoring my rankings. Changed flair from Error/Bug to Resolved.

FINAL EDIT: HUGE THANK YOU to Valve! My wishlist has been restored to its pre-bug state! 🥳