Fake Steam wishlists: why bought bot wishlists hurt your game

Some services sell wishlists in packs: 1,000 wishlists for a flat price, delivered in days. Those wishlists come from bot accounts or account farms. No one behind them will ever buy your game.

• They don’t convert. Launch-week sales come from real wishlisters; see wishlist conversion benchmarks.
• They don’t get you onto Steam’s lists. Visibility depends on real players; see what Popular Upcoming takes now.
• They can confuse Steam’s algorithm. Wishlists that never click, buy or follow make your game look like one people don’t want.
• They ruin your data. You can’t judge your store page, price or launch timing on numbers that aren’t people.
• They break Valve’s rules. Steam acts against fake activity, and the risk lands on your game, not on the seller.

• A fixed number of wishlists for a fixed price, guaranteed.
• Delivery in days, with no audience, video or channel named.
• No way to check results in your own Steamworks reports.
• Rewards for wishlisting: giveaways, keys or payments to the people wishlisting. That breaks Steam’s rules too.

Pay for results you can verify in Steamworks, from people who chose your game. On Wishlistme, creators show your game to their audience, and you pay per wishlist only when Steam’s UTM report attributes it to their link. Viewers are never rewarded for wishlisting.

Pay creators to showcase your game instead, or work out what a real wishlist is worth to you.