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Nice!

One thing that I immediately noticed:
you only allow for certain categories to be excluded.

I, for one, would love to exclude (e.g.) "early access" titles, "pre-orders" and "coming soon" titles.
Just to not have these clutter the results.

Now, I don't know, whether it's too complicated, to give users the capability to exclude more (best case scenario: all) categories, but if that would be possible, I would appreciate it.

However: I also understand, if that's too much work or it's just something, that not enough people would want.

Again: overall - nice work!

Edit: forget the above.
Of course, I can simply check the "Released" box and get, what I was asking for...me stoopid. ;-)
Post edited 2 days ago by BreOl72
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BreOl72: Of course, I can simply check the "Released" box and get, what I was asking for...
*g* Exactly. When there are few mutually exclusive options within a category, it's easier to click what you want than what you don't want, which is basically how I determine what type of filter to use for each category.
Great work! Thank you!
I've already used the site to find some real bargain gift codes, well done on a great job gogtrial34987.
Just in case anyone wonders why there are suddenly 4 fewer games listed than there were an hour ago: I found four more soundtracks which were misclassified as games, and demoted them to goodies for the games they belong to. Improving data like that is an ongoing process, and I have a bunch of admin queues to work my way through whenever I'm not actively coding (or playing games). :)
Post edited 2 days ago by gogtrial34987
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Mornyngstar01: Could you run a test on the search and see if it pulls up all content having to deal with Dungeons & Dragons? I keep finding new stuff.

Thank you.
Yeah, there's no good way to find everything in one search via GOG's search -- and since they redid their search page several years ago, there's also no way to run several separate searches with all the results dumped together (which was a decent way to share an unorganized list of everything D&D-related).
So, I eventually started a personal document that collected info about all these titles together. Have a look.
(If the formatting looks a bit off in some places in Word, it's just partial incompatibility with the .odt file made in LibreOffice Writer. Also note that it's pretty much perpetually a WIP, and section with the chronology of individual games [with all its ugly footnotes] has been made largely obsolete by a separate spreadsheet which I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with.)
I've added the ability to sort the results. Now offered:
- by relevance score (default, only when searching)
- by price improvement (default otherwise)
- by price
- by discount
- by releasedate on GOG

I still plan to add sorting by original release date and title at some point down the road, but that's probably going to be a medium term thing.

I've also added a "jump to page" mechanism, only when there are more pages than can be directly addressed by the current mechanism.

Additionally, the current page will now be retained when switching between countries. Note than when filtering or sorting on anything price-related, the results will differ between countries (not a lot, but enough to be noticeable), so you won't get exactly the same results - but mostly the same games will still show on the same pages, so I figure that retaining the page number is still helpful.
Post edited 19 hours ago by gogtrial34987
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gogtrial34987: - by release date on GOG

I still plan to add sorting by original release date
Instead of using the cumbersome "release date on GOG" and "original release date", you might want to use the nomenclature employed by MaGog and more or less also by GOG, calling the former "addition date" and the latter "release date".
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gogtrial34987: - by release date on GOG

I still plan to add sorting by original release date
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mrkgnao: Instead of using the cumbersome "release date on GOG" and "original release date", you might want to use the nomenclature employed by MaGog and more or less also by GOG, calling the former "addition date" and the latter "release date".
"Date added" for me is when the game could be bought for the first time (or when it was first exposed in the API, which I also track, and which is quite a bit earlier again for "coming-soon" games). For preorders, these dates are quite different than the release date. GOG also (inconsistently, but mostly) updates the releasedate when early-access games leave early-access status, making the "date added" label even less true, and I'm basically leaning in to that, trying to make it behave consistently like that for all games.

I do in general need to take a second look at these labels, and how much complexity I can and want to hide from my visitors, but I do want the terms to give a more-or-less accurate idea of what they mean.
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gogtrial34987:
Apparently GOG has introduced dynamically-priced bundles:
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/26981125840925-Dynamic-Pricing-for-Bundles

Could you perhaps add a filter for these? I have no idea how to find them, but perhaps your API scraper does.

Found the current list to get you started, if you decide to implement it:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/were_rolling_out_the_first_batch_of_bundles_with_dynamic_pricing/post3

Thanks.
Post edited 9 hours ago by mrkgnao
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gogtrial34987:
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mrkgnao: Apparently GOG has introduced dynamically-priced bundles
They also turned them off again for the next week. When they return, I'll definitely have a look at the API to see if they expose anything different about these bundles by which I can recognize them.
I'm now showing the nr of sales and all-time/previous year's low price for items which aren't on sale.

The only games which won't show this information now should be games which have never been on sale.
Post edited 13 minutes ago by gogtrial34987