samhayne

@marino, @bigsocrates

Well, I think the question should be: “What information does a user want to draw from the platform info?”

Btw… if we look at the wikipedia article for Pac Man:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man

Something similar happened to me recently.

Most older Halo Games are available as part of the Master Chief Collection for PC. Their GB wiki description text even mentions this.

I‘m also tracking my games on Darkadia (which uses the GB API) - and as purchased them for PC the Halo games are now “uncategorized“ there for me. To fix this I added PC on GB as a platform, but that change was undone by @marino. Now I feel bad as I only did this with best intentions. And have some nasty uncategorized Halo entries in my Darkadia library.

Yes, I can add the entire Master Chief Collection instead… but it‘s bad for play tracking and rating. Hmph. Frustrating.

The platform rules seem to make sense from a collector‘s point of view. But not from the view of someone who wants to look up if a game is playable on any of his available devices.