Feedback for issues regarding http://computergamecollector.com
> What I will never be able to agree to, however, are the availability > ratings. Most of what has been added so far is very common IMHO, or > uncommon at best. It's typically listed as "extremely rare" though. > Wouldn't be sad if that column were removed completely. Agreed. The merit of such a thing is certainly debatable. If no one wants this sort of information, I'll gladly remove this column from the DB. > It would also be nice, for someone like me (and I'm guessing like most of us > on the list), to upload a comma delimited file (in the format specified by > the site) that can automatically convert your collection...or at least give > you a huge head start. Working on a collection importer/exporter as we speak. It's pretty much done, but want to do some more testing before I unleash it. > At the moment I'm reluctant to do much > with CGC because it doesn't support bulk uploads. If there were a way to > load my entire collection at once (as well as bulk-suggest additions to the > master list -- I have a lot of obscure stuff), I'd post it in an instant. This seems to be many people's concern; I'm working on it :) > Interjection: it seems pretty useless to me to be creating yet another > master list of games when Moby already exists. Wouldn't it make more sense > to have a SOAP service or some other web API that people could use to access > the information from Moby, perhaps for some sort of licensing fee? Since > there's so much in the DB already (complete with screenshots, box shots, > etc.), it seems foolish to me to duplicate the effort. As was mentioned, Moby covers a limited number of systems, hence certain box releases of certain games, and games never released on pc compats are not represented. I realize Moby's is an unmatched resource, and I'm not looking to replace that at all. While Moby's is based mostly on providing information (to my knowledge), my site serves additional functionality. > I'd probably know his eBay ID > if I see it. Site is employing a price guide for mint sealed games, this > ought to create some controversy. Does anyone find this controversal? It's not meant to be, and is far from an ironclad value. If I see a new classic game that sells on ebay, I enter the mint sealed price in a $20 range or so. If nothing else, it's an estimate of the most recent copies that were sold on ebay. Of course it will be a very gradual thing for all the values to be filled up if ever. Thanks for the interest guys & let me know what you think, Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Greetings > > CcomputerGameCollector wrote: > > > > Starting to think nobody got my last email? Either that or this email list > > is awefully quiet! > > I think we're still debating what to talk about regarding the website. :-) > If you check the archives (details should be at the bottom of this message), > there is some discussion already on how we discovered it and what we think of > it. Answering these might be a good place to start :-) > -- > http://www.MobyGames.com/ > The world's most comprehensive gaming database project. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to > the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' > Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
