If you want to buy a specific Steam game on discount, you can just add it to watchlist and get a notification when it has one. If you want to buy some random g

If you want to buy a specific Steam game on discount, you can just add it to watchlist and get a notification when it has one. If you want to buy some random games because they are discounted, you can just go to the corresponding section in the Steam store. The point of the popup is to distract you from whatever you're doing right now to get you to make an impulse purchase, as opposed to a well-researched one. That's exactly how people end up with Steam accounts that have literally hundreds of never-played games in them.