Oh wow, as a player these are all horrible options. I've bought the game, I want to play it without popup ads for your next game. Stuff like this might actually convince me to leave a negative review.

One thing I don't get though, and it doesn't work for unreleased games, but why not just create a bundle with all your games with a token discount like 10%?

[–] Berin@mastodon.social 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

@savvywolf @gamedev That doesn't really serve the purpose these cross promotion methods were devised for. These are meant to help you gather wishlists for your upcoming games, which is supposed to ensure a successful launch by getting you into steam's promotional algorithms (e.g. Popular Upcoming) as quickly as possible.
I agree that most of these techniques are too intrusive from a player perspective, though. I'd add a link in the main menu and heavily discount old games at most 🤔