Bug#810059: game-data-packager: tag games not available for sale anymore

[Alexandre Detiste]

Package: game-data-packager
Version: 43
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

It doesn't make sense to tag games not available for sale
retail anymore: that's almost all games supported here;
or any other game after a 3 year time-span.


What's not commonly expected is that games disapear from
Steam or GOG.com

Even if these games can not be bought anymore,
user may already have it in either in a local file
(~./steam or setup-<...>.exe) or marked as owned &
downloadable in it's portfolio ("lgogdownloader --list" or
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/<steam_id>/games?xml=1").

http://www.pcgamer.com/gog-holds-interplay-sale-but-removes-descent-from-store/
http://www.pcgamer.com/duke-nukem-is-being-removed-from-gog-but-he-will-
probably-be-back/

So a new tag should be added to the gog: & steam: dict
with either a bool or the approximate date game was pulled off.

Better: this could be checked semi-automatically like
tools/steam_native.py does check for Steam "native games".

Alexandre



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