neumi5694: Actually your post supports the request to be able to filter by store tags.
It shows quite impressive, how bad our user tag system is.
With over 2000 games and multiple possible tags this could take a few weeks.
I do agree we should be able to use the innate tags present. And since i can't make the changes myself i can only pine and wish about what i COULD do. But since i can't...
trusteft: You are replying like you are some sort of Diogenes in your mind.
A what? Never seen that word before. But doesn't matter.
trusteft: The only thing you keep doing is presenting your input as some sort of helpful input when all you do is repeating my original question, in the form of a statement/solution.
Because that's the only way i see it working at present, unless they actually do something. But if you don't want to use what's currently available by all means do it however you want.
trusteft: I know the store has tags.
I know you can manually one by one put your own tags in your games.
You are not saying anything I haven't already said in my original question.
Soooo... what's the problem?
Not to defend GoG or anything, but the slow upgrades over time and artifacts of the original code are definitely showing, from when you could rearrange your games on the shelf to any order you wanted.
As a programmer they have the store and the user dashboard completely separated, making user tags their own thing (
and likely their own tables too), while store tags are for the store. Not confusing. The tags would require a userID, the gameID, and the tagID. It was probably originally seen as tacky as importing tags for every game with their original, especially if people were deleting them and wanting to put their own stuff like 'first game played in 1990' or something else. Did that happen or were tags added in the last couple years? I am not sure. I don't remember user tags when i joined in 2013. Rather than doing a lot of work that may mean nothing, it's easier to leave it blank.
With the various forum bugs, like new threads not having italics button, to wanted features, GoG probably has a skeleton crew who are likely swamped with tickets, and the '
if it's not broke don't fix it' is paramount. On top of that, anything that may involve user data (
and accidentally screwing accounts up, owned games or user data) would likely need extra scrutiny, or possibly only one person is authorized to touch it. No doubt the tables and database is a headache as it is.
I'll say it again. If i could fix it for you, i would.
