My experience with Steam wishlist

So I've been several months with a different number of games in my wishlist than shown in my wishlist. Games went from 1 to X, but wishlist count (top left in pretty much all store pages) showed 2 more games. I had 2 hidden games. I saw some threads and guides about it, some old, some simply weird and not worth mentioning. The one I think is the best of all I saw is this one:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1746978201

It all started smelling fishy when the site to list your wishlist incorrectly pointed Noita as one of the two hidden games. Incorrectly because it was shown in the wishlist page without any problem.

So one of the games, I located correctly, Before We Leave, still in the works and TBA but removed from Steam (appears in Epic). The other? I used a custom method, rather cumbersome, but well.

First I load the wishlist, view source and locate a big variable which contains all the appids and other little data from all the games in the wishlist, which then other parts of the scripts use to gather the info to list for your viewing pleasure. Some text substitution and I got all the appids in my wishlist.

Then I middle-clicked all the games to open their pages, and used a Firefox extension (Foxytab, one of my most useful ones) to copy the URLs. With LibreOffice Calc I compared all shown games against the real wishlist. Of course there were two missing, the already mentioned Before We Leave, and Monster Sanctuary.

Using the guide, I removed easily Before We Leave, and then removed Monster Sanctuary with the manual method. For the first time since... Months... I had the same number of wishlisted games than shown games. It's silly, but it's something that bugged me for long. So I was satisfied, and happily readded Monster Sanctuary. Refreshed wishlist page and again... Monster Sanctuary didn't show. I had one hidden game again, shown games and wishlisted games mismatch again. Something was rotten in Denmark.

So I thought, what the hall, let's send all this shut to crop and back. I deleted all my wishlist. And since I already had the URLs of all my wishlisted games, I loaded all of them (using Multiple Paste And Go Button extension, also very useful to me) and readded all the games. Again, my shown games and wishlist count matched. My only problem was that all games had the number 0 next to them, and I had to reorder them in the way I liked again. As soon as you do some movement, assign a number manually, or look weird at the monitor, the wishlist smartly adds consecutive numbers to all those unranked games with the zero. And at the first action, the numbers automatically were assigned to... One less than my wishlist number. I had another hidden game again. Not Monster Sanctuary, but another one.

So well, I think I'm going to discover that whatever game is in position X in that variable with all my wishlisted games, for some reason, will never show. I'm pretty sure it's going to be something like that, a bug somehow somewhere that will always affect me with one hidden game.

Since Steam support for client problems or webpage oddities is next to zero, I'm not even bothering searching for how to file a bug report that would be unlooked and unfixed for decades because Steam wins millions from us but works with 30 vicepresidents and 2 developers.

Right now my option is to find what position is the bad one, delete all games again, readd them all but when reaching that position, add there a game I don't want at all. So my hidden game doesn't matter, and the games I care about show. And having to resort to this solution is really pathetic.

I'm sorry I can't add a GA or something decent here for the amount of text about an unimportant thing for 99.9999% people, but if you reached here, I'll leave a pearl for you, related to this experience. As an ex-software developer doing my first tries with programming in the 80's I truly feel the sentiment in this article, and even an average user should read it:
https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

(Available translations in Chinese French Italian Korean Portuguese Russian and Spanish)

Now for the other little unimportant thing that has been bugging me for months too: how to remove a game from my library that's part of a bundle without removing the rest of the bundle. Can't find a way.

Thank you for reading.

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