Posted February 18, 2019
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mrkgnao: No. It's not possible. And it's not a question of filters; it's simply that the data is not there. MaGog does not keep a history of regional prices, only of the base price.
P.S. If you have a specific question, it might be possible to answer it by writing a program that scans MaGog's historical logs (the ones she generates on her update runs, every six hours). I keep them all (currently upwards of 21 GB of text), just in case. [...]
HypersomniacLive: Fist off, sorry for the very belated reply. P.S. If you have a specific question, it might be possible to answer it by writing a program that scans MaGog's historical logs (the ones she generates on her update runs, every six hours). I keep them all (currently upwards of 21 GB of text), just in case. [...]
Thanks for the offer, but my interest is more about being able to look up when and how things change.
Curious, since you keep all of her historical logs (i.e. the data I'd like to see are stored albeit in a non directly usable form), may I ask why they're not made available for look ups through additional/special filters?
1. MaGog's server's disk space is limited. I can only keep the last 1-2 GB of logs there. Every few months, I download past logs to my home PC and delete them from the server. So when I say I have all historical logs, I mean on my home PC, not online.
2. Even if the logs were available online, they were designed to allow me to quickly browse them every six hours in order to detect GOG changes and to debug potential GOG and MaGog bugs. They were not designed for querying. Writing even one filter for querying the logs for my own use would be quite a task. Having a general purpose publicly available search engine for the logs would be a monumental endeavour.
3. Even if there were such filters, running them would probably takes many minutes, if not hours, per query, instead of the current 1-2 seconds when querying the database, making them much less user friendly.
mrkgnao: [...] P.P.S. BTW, the case you point to in the link above is not one of changing from flat to regional. It's from regional in a few countries to regional in a lot of countries. Ubisoft games have been regional for years now.
HypersomniacLive: I'm aware that Ubisoft release all their games regionally priced post the introduction of regional pricing here. The reason I mentioned it is that I recall their early catalogue (i.e. released before mid 2014) being flat priced (or at least with only discounted prices for the usual regions?) until recently.