Forums > MobyGames > Does anyone add patch info?
yellowshirt (1583) on 8/12/2016 11:13 PM · Permalink · Report
Genuinely curious. If there is the demand I will try and add some.
Havoc Crow (29904) on 8/14/2016 6:59 AM · Permalink · Report
I do. In particular, see here
Simon Carless (1834) on 8/14/2016 4:16 PM · Permalink · Report
This is a great example of 'MobyGames does EVERYTHING but some stuff not very well', haha - we do support patch info but not in a particularly user friendly way and not for all platforms, I guess?
Evolyzer (21843) on 8/14/2016 7:16 PM · edited · Permalink · Report
Yes, patch support fo Android and iOS are completely missing.
And we count the different versions (V0.83a, V0.83b, V0.84 etc) of a lot of open source games not as a patch, but as a new/independed release, because you have to redownload the complete game to get the new version and not a patch. This may be correct if you take our rules literally but... A game wth 80 worldwide releases (sometime it does only take two or three days until the next version) just looks stupid and doesn't help anyone..
Patrick Bregger (302032) on 8/14/2016 7:33 PM · Permalink · Report
As I said before, I think it would be best to have version history instead of patch history.
Tracy Poff (2094) on 8/14/2016 7:55 PM · Permalink · Report
If I were reinventing the rules, I'd probably say that a new release should only be added if it has different countries or companies, or is otherwise somehow special ("Statue Included Edition"? Sure, new release, whatever. "v1.04"? No.) and everything else as a 'patch' (and then we should allow the official patch notes to be uploaded in addition to whatever commentary we add). Then we could display everything in whatever clever way we want.
So, yeah, what Patrick said.
Patrick Bregger (302032) on 8/14/2016 8:18 PM · Permalink · Report
But every version must be allowed to be used as initial release for a new game submission. Just for practical reasons, sometimes it is just impossible to track down a reliable date for 1.00.
Harmony♡ (21847) on 8/14/2016 11:53 PM · Permalink · Report
Whatever version the earliest public release is. Personally, if a date for 1.00 can't be found, I'm okay with accepting whatever is the earliest version information can be found for, and then submitting a correction later on if an earlier date is discovered. It's not ideal, but it's better than holding off on a game entry while trying to find info that may or may not exist.
Игги Друге (46653) on 8/15/2016 10:57 AM · Permalink · Report
[Q --start Patrick Bregger wrote--]As I said before, I think it would be best to have version history instead of patch history. [/Q --end Patrick Bregger wrote--] I thought everyone treated it as such?
No approver has ever questioned my patch info submission when they in fact weren't patches.
