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sauvignon1: Magog, as in the biblical/Genesis character?
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mrkgnao: Gog and Magog have a long and complex history, ranging from Biblical nations to British giants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog
I found your statement on your Magog page a bit confusing:
MaGog does not stand for "More About Good Old Games".
Maybe it would be better to directly refer to this background.
One of the Gog members uses the name "JudasIscariot". I guess that has a similar background.
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eli2: I found your statement on your Magog page a bit confusing:

MaGog does not stand for "More About Good Old Games".
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eli2:
It's a kind of "inside" joke.
For several years GOG stood for "Good Old Games".
Then when GOG began releasing new games too, they came out with announcement (paraphrasing):
"GOG no longer means (only) Good Old Games, now it's just GOG".
There's a couple of threads on the forum where people suggest new meanings for the GOG no-longer-acronym.
I finally finished..phew!

So, because I like stats, the numbers are:
- 218 owned (classic titles, great ratings or played and liked)
- 56 owned, unsure (seem interesting but with average-good reviews, I'll see)
- 11 owned, unwanted (crap obtained due to packs or day-one bad freewares)

- 34 wishlisted (known great, yet to buy)
- 24 wishlisted, unsure (seem interesting, maybe worth buying?)

- 64 unsure (too few reviews or average and I can't decide)

- 327 unwanted (bad reviews or uninteresting for me)
- 68 unwanted, unsure (low reviews, probably bad, but maybe..)

total: 802
(including DLCs,removed,etc)
Post edited June 28, 2014 by phaolo
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phaolo: I finally finished..phew!

total: 802
(including DLCs,removed,etc)
Good show!
Perhaps you want to post a link with your "unsure" games (here or in some newly-created thread) and have people comment on it.
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ChrisSD: Ok I've hopefully fixed some of the smaller issues. Same links as before

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25688372/magog/exportGamesToMagog.user.js

As a quick hack I've add a list of ignored game IDs cribbed from MaGog but I've no idea if it catches them properly as i don't have any premium or DLC games myself. If anyone wants to adapt the script for themselves, feel free!
Impressive initiative!!! Good show!!!

I looked at it (once I figured out where it was, since I don't use GOG's "My Shelf", only the "My Games" list). Looks good.
I'm afraid that part of your issues, those related to the removed games, are my fault.

When I began building the database, I didn't have GOG's ID for the removed games (as there were no game pages for them), so I just gave them my own arbitrary negative IDs (-1000 to -1018). I never bothered to reasearch it further and change that. Sorry about that.
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mrkgnao: Good show!
Perhaps you want to post a link with your "unsure" games (here or in some newly-created thread) and have people comment on it.
Thanks :)

Asking for additional reviews for 64+24+(68) games? Quite hard..
I'd maybe do a poll, if GoG had them..
(wishlist already added)
So, is GOG going to hire you or is someone else going to?
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mrkgnao: P.S. I'm not a web programmer, so rather new to all of this.
And you're doing a damn fine job hiding it :-)

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Spinorial: Also, it would be a convenient option to link to the HTTPS pages on GOG.
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mrkgnao: Could you elaborate a bit? What HTTPS pages? What are the benefits and drawbacks of that?
N.B. I'm no web programmer either, so I'm going by cursory knowledge.

HTTPS is a secure protocol which uses SSL to encrypt any data you might send and receive. All game cards and fora have duplicate addresses: the default http://www.gog.com/<stuff>, and the secure https://secure.gog.com/<stuff>. Many people prefer to use exclusively the secure ones, whenever available. It's not critical for the purposes of your project, but it's a convenience. GOG itself is at fault here, because a lot of its own links break the secure environment and revert to default http.

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Spinorial: Might I suggest you also use the forum icons for the games - this way it also works for the removed ones.
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mrkgnao: Not sure I understand. There are already working forum links for the removed one.
So, here's the deal:

Search in MaGOG for all the removed games. You'll notice that there are no icons to display on the left, probably because they're not in the catalogue anymore. However, the fora for these games are still available,
e.g. https://secure.gog.com/forum/wallace_gromits_grand_adventures
Furthermore, if you go to https://secure.gog.com/forum and search for Wallace, you'll see that the link to the forum has its old icon. These appear to be the same size as the ones you're using, so I suggest you use these to fill the void.
Post edited June 28, 2014 by Spinorial
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yarow12: So, is GOG going to hire you or is someone else going to?
Heavens, no. I do not work for money.
I work for truth and honour and justice, to protect the poor and the downtrodden, and for the occasional giveaway.

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mrkgnao: Could you elaborate a bit? What HTTPS pages? What are the benefits and drawbacks of that?
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Spinorial: N.B. I'm no web programmer either, so I'm going by cursory knowledge.

HTTPS is a secure protocol which uses SSL to encrypt any data you might send and receive. All game cards and fora have duplicate addresses: the default http://www.gog.com/<stuff>, and the secure https://secure.gog.com/<stuff>. Many people prefer to use exclusively the secure ones, whenever available. It's not critical for the purposes of your project, but it's a convenience. GOG itself is at fault here, because a lot of its own links break the secure environment and revert to default http.
Fora... nice.
Got it. Will implement a switch to allow users to choose (non-secure will be the default).

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mrkgnao: Not sure I understand. There are already working forum links for the removed one.
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Spinorial: So, here's the deal:

Search in MaGOG for all the removed games. You'll notice that there are no icons to display on the left, probably because they're not in the catalogue anymore. However, the fora for these games are still available,
e.g. https://secure.gog.com/forum/wallace_gromits_grand_adventures
Furthermore, if you go to https://secure.gog.com/forum and search for Wallace, you'll see that the link to the forum has its old icon. These appear to be the same size as the ones you're using, so I suggest you use these to fill the void.
Now I understand.
I actually liked the fact the the removed games had no image, making them stand out. I even hid the Arma images when these games were removed. But I guess you're right. Will get them.
Post edited June 28, 2014 by mrkgnao
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mrkgnao: Now I understand.
I actually liked the fact the the removed games had no image, making them stand out. I even hid the Arma images when these games were removed. But I guess you're right. Will get them.
Fair enough. It actually makes sense. Your next project could be superimposing the two images ;)
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mrkgnao: Now I understand.
I actually liked the fact the the removed games had no image, making them stand out. I even hid the Arma images when these games were removed. But I guess you're right. Will get them.
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Spinorial: Fair enough. It actually makes sense. Your next project could be superimposing the two images ;)
I'll probably just place a small "Removed" icon alongside the game image.
Now, a question for you. Any idea where I can get images for those removed games that have one forum for multiple games (i.e. have only one image among them) --- that is, the Fallout series, the Guilty Gear series, and the Space Rangers series?

P.S. Silly me. Forget it. I know where to get the images.....


My Games
Post edited June 28, 2014 by mrkgnao
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mrkgnao: When I began building the database, I didn't have GOG's ID for the removed games (as there were no game pages for them), so I just gave them my own arbitrary negative IDs (-1000 to -1018). I never bothered to reasearch it further and change that. Sorry about that.
That would explain why the Bohemia interactive ones were working.

I still have some problems with the script but with less games so I must not have been completely correct.
I haven't had time to investigate. Maybe Sunday.

However if a game is borked, the user can just remove the tag for it and then the next time it loads some results it disappears.
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mrkgnao: Now I understand.
I actually liked the fact the the removed games had no image, making them stand out. I even hid the Arma images when these games were removed. But I guess you're right. Will get them.
You could still make the removed games stand out by editing their images. Adding a border, X, or greying them out should do the trick.
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mrkgnao: Now I understand.
I actually liked the fact the the removed games had no image, making them stand out. I even hid the Arma images when these games were removed. But I guess you're right. Will get them.
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yarow12: You could still make the removed games stand out by editing their images. Adding a border, X, or greying them out should do the trick.
Indeed. I already did something along these lines. See attached image.
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Damn, this is amazing. Not sure if genius or mad but I like it!