Recebi e-mail hoje cujo título é "Important Changes to MobyGames API Access"

Uso essa API com o plugin MediaDB do Obsidian para adicionar jogos. Dava preferência de uso à API da Moby Games por ser bem consolidado e com ricas contribuições dos usuários, incluindo raras fotos de estojos e manuais de jogos antigos. Além de conter informações sobre jogos atuais e nem tão antigos (foi lá que descobri que o "Stranglehold" estava disponível no GOG).

Pouco tempo atrás, indiquei a API a um amigo, mas ele informou que era um serviço pago... Estranhei; agora, isso.

Acho que os motivos são explicados nesta postagem:

https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/114038052085043219

#MobyGames #API #Enshittification #GameDataBase #GamesDatabase

digital preservation and archivist friends: it came to my attention recently that mobygames was bought by some trashy atari holding corporation a few years ago. all of the scans and item entries that many of us slaved over for the past 25 years were sold off. anyone submitting mobygames entries/updates are effectively working for free now.

i can't say i'm unhappy to see it going downhill with the new owners. updates to entries went from taking 1 day for approval from moderators, to 4-6 months.

it also had a frustrating limitation of declaring any software outside of its very traditional definition of game as out-of-scope.

that being said, it's a critical service for those researching and writing about games.

i'd like to know if there are any publicly-owned database initiatives in development to replace and/or subsume mobygames.

and if not, let's build one.

#mobygames #digipres #gamePreservation

#Backloggery is useful for me because it’s simple and doesn’t rely on a database, so no missing games. But sharing it with others? Hardly useful, if at all!

So I did a few things:
– Lists on #MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/user/120552/onsamyj/collection/ Sailing and Nausicaä-like migrated from my blog, and Recommendations is for games I, well, recommend.
– An improved version of a site map (index, really) for my blog: https://no-pe.netlify.app/map/ @bmo has details.
– Backloggery is still there for *everything*.

How not to do a user-generated content.

#MobyGames

Developers adding translators into the credits after they left them out at first (because of a simple oversight or agencies not handing over freelancer names) is incredibly helpful to us. Unfortunately, it also means any Youtube videos will likely show the old version, which have already been entered into #mobyGames as well.
So I spent some time today editing the mobyGames entry of a game. From experience, the edit will take about five months to be inspected and published. By this point, the game itself will be one year old.

#TranslatorsInTheCredits #videogames

It has been 25 years of #MobyGames already? Wow.

https://www.mobygames.com/forum/3/thread/265850/happy-25th-anniversary/

Ever since MobyPro by MobyGames was made available a few weeks ago, I am working hard to upgrade my entire retro library to include all these high resolution scans. It is taking forever - and they don't have everything, but the quality is often so much better than what you could download before!

Here's a quick comparision.

#MobyGames #MobyPro #RetroGaming #Preservation

It was to be expected, but now it becomes a reality: The new owner of #MobyGames has started to try making money with user-contributed content.

And should you not be aware of: MobyGames was bought by #Atari not long ago. They also recently bought #AtariAge. I guess that means we all know what will happen over there as well. Atari is not a philanthropist - they want to make money.

#RetroGaming