Fantasysci5: I miss the flash sales and community picks. It had me much more involved, always checking every few hours in case I missed one. It also gave me hope that some of the not-on-sale games would come up. They won't be adding any more discounts, will they?
Don't think so. It's a lot less stressfull at least. This way I can just check out the sales now and buy something when I feel like it rather than wait for the final day checking every 8 hours to see if the games I actually want are on 'extra' sale.
But I understand the 'feeling less engaged' part of it. Maybe they can gamify the spending and put a top 10 leaderboard ;)
I have a 133 item wishlist but I doubt I'll get many if any of them, most are on there because they're too new or too high priced (for sales to be interesting). Mostly hoping to finish up DLC's for some of my games so I stop putting them off till I have them.