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For consoles it still makes sense to buy discs... they're discounted a lot more and faster than the digital versions.
And with me having a more than respectable backlog, I almost always buy on disc and almost always after it's discounted by 50%.
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Steam can list/launch your non-Steam games, but it isn't open source. Listing non-steam games is also a manual process and there probably isn't any library art associated with the entry if it comes from Battle.net or whatever.
GoG Galaxy can handle Steam games too... Probably not the proprietary launchers for the top predators... Blizz, EA, Ubisoft...
I've heard that other tools like Playnite work better but I've not gotten enough motivation to try as yet.
I prefer Steam's well-integrated interface. It would be nice if it could scrape other launchers too.
Pretty actually. How hard would it be to include physical Playstation games by scanning the barcode or something like that? For consoles it still makes sense to buy discs... they're discounted a lot more and faster than the digital versions. And with me having a more than respectable backlog, I almost always buy on disc and almost always after it's discounted by 50%.
[1]: https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det...
Pretty actually. How hard would it be to include physical Playstation games by scanning the barcode or something like that? For consoles it still makes sense to buy discs... they're discounted a lot more and faster than the digital versions. And with me having a more than respectable backlog, I almost always buy on disc and almost always after it's discounted by 50%.
Pretty trivial, I built a browser scanner for my phone using a QR scanner library[1], while browsers are contemplating adding an API natively.[2] You would just need to use a lookup service for the UPN of the game title. [1]: https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det...
Have you used Playnite? Have you built features / plan to make features that would set this apart from Playnite?
But feature wise, the main difference is that we're targetting all platforms instead of just PC. You could have GameNode in your phone when you only have a Xbox/PS console for example.
If you have any suggestions on what we may do to set us apart aside from this, please let me know
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GoG Galaxy can handle Steam games too... Probably not the proprietary launchers for the top predators... Blizz, EA, Ubisoft...
I have been using GOG Galaxy to try and track my entire collection but of course its connections to other gaming services are always broken. I've heard that other tools like Playnite work better but I've not gotten enough motivation to try as yet. I prefer Steam's well-integrated interface. It would be nice if it could scrape other launchers too.
At the least I have two copies of Mass Effect Andromeda and two of Valkyria Chronicles because they were very cheap and I forgot I already got them :)
Does this do anything differently from https://backloggd.com/ ? I've been using Backloggd a lot over the past year and I'm not sure how this is different (aside from being ad-free, which is nice)
We both use IGDB as source, so there's no difference in the actual catalogue of games.
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I have been using GOG Galaxy to try and track my entire collection but of course its connections to other gaming services are always broken. I've heard that other tools like Playnite work better but I've not gotten enough motivation to try as yet. I prefer Steam's well-integrated interface. It would be nice if it could scrape other launchers too.
Tbh my problem is not with launchers, I can live with separate launchers, but with having a full list of games I already bought on my phone when i'm digging through the console bargain bins. At the least I have two copies of Mass Effect Andromeda and two of Valkyria Chronicles because they were very cheap and I forgot I already got them :)