http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26766
Summary: A lot of games are listed against distributors and not the developers Product: WineHQ Apps Database Version: unspecified Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: ASSIGNED Severity: trivial Priority: P5 Component: appdb-unknown AssignedTo: kennybobs@o2.co.uk ReportedBy: kennybobs@o2.co.uk
A lot of the games in the AppDB are listed against the distributors instead of the actual developers.
This is not a major problem but it would be nice to tidy this up and any bugs relating to certain developers would be easier to collect.
Other maintainers have, sensibly, simply added "Versions" for each distributor, and as each distributor tends to update their products as they see fit, rather than when the developer sees fit, this could affect the ratings for different implementations of the same game.
Assigning to myself as it's a fairly big job (some games have to be downloaded and run just to find out who developed them) and will take far too long for me to simply remember what's what.
Currently affected: Big Fish Games, PopCap, Steam.
Anyone: please feel free to help!
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Ken Sharp kennybobs@o2.co.uk changed:
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Ken Sharp kennybobs@o2.co.uk changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Ken Sharp kennybobs@o2.co.uk 2012-06-27 21:45:34 CDT --- I don't have the time to go through all these. Nothing major anyway.
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Miguel miguelsouto.sc@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Miguel miguelsouto.sc@gmail.com 2012-06-28 08:58:31 CDT --- Just as a suggestion, you can use the MobyGames database to find who company has developed most of the games, it can helps you a lot to do that job, because they have a really huge database, with all the names of both developers and publishers and with links to their official websites. And of course using that site and google will make the job more painless.
It doesn't have nothing to do with this, but i think it's also related, a lot of people when add a new game, they put the genres of those games wrong too. Like for example if it's a Point & Click Adventure game with a first person perspective, they've add that game as a First Person Shooter, and of course, are both different things. It also happens with a all the others genres. So if someone makes a search on the WineDB looking for a Strategy game, they will find a lot of games that doesn't fit with the search results, and maybe the strategy game that their are looking for, isn't appears in the search results because it has been added on other genres. Is very confusing.
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Anastasius Focht focht@gmx.net changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Anastasius Focht focht@gmx.net --- Hello folks,
is this issue still present?
If not, please add the list of items here. Without actual lists/work items this "meta" bug will stay forever.
Regards
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--- Comment #4 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- (In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #3)
is this issue still present?
It will always be present, because even if someone has the tenacity to clean up all the current entries (a huge task), users will continue to add new ones with the same problem. It's not really a bug, it's a housekeeping issue.
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Jeff D. Hanson jhansonxi@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #5 from Jeff D. Hanson jhansonxi@gmail.com --- I updated the Wiki and included clarification about identifying the developer: http://wiki.winehq.org/AppDB_Test_Results_Guidelines#head-177e5af0026b378452...
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--- Comment #6 from Jeff D. Hanson jhansonxi@gmail.com --- Should probably link the Wiki (or other guide) to the application submission form.
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--- Comment #7 from Ken Sharp imwellcushtymelike@gmail.com --- I've gone through everything listed under PopCap and corrected those. PopCap acquired a bunch of other studios and eventually EA acquired them.
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