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firstly, thanks for this great bundle with great games for a great cause.

that said, my main issues with the current setup are:

  • that, unlike the library, the bundle download page isn't searchable
  • and going on a game's "store page" (e.g. from the search) it does not show any hint as to me owning the game already (via the bundle), but instead asks me to buy either the bundle or the game, and doesn't even acknowledge the fact i already have it in the purchase dialog but happily lets me spend multiple times on the already owned game.

so while not flooding the library sounds like a good thing, it also prevents one from actually seeing they already own a game, unless they manually click through 25+ pages on the bundle download page. this pretty much forces (from a UX perspective) people to either run a spammy javascript a million times over, click loads of buttons by hand, or be "tricked" (not on purpose i assume) into buying the games multiple times over.

tl;dr: the "you already own this game" banner (which currently only shows up after a game is added to the library) should definitely check for "hidden" games owned via a bundle.

also, in the long term, please provide a "add this whole bundle to my library" button (or a setting in the account settings/etc) for people who don't mind their library being flooded, because I (and judging from the comments here also lots of others) would just rather like to have a big library they can easily search using the itch.io or 3rd party clients/APIs instead of the website hiding things from them for convenience. don't get me wrong, i totally understand why you didn't want to spam people (and presumably your database), but some do want that, even if just for the "ease of mind" of knowing the games won't accidentally vanish when the bundle ends (have seen that question a bunch), and of knowing they won't accidentally buy them multiple times, and also just the convenience of library searchability and knowing you don't have to hunt down owned items in bundles.

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that, unlike the library, the bundle download page isn't searchable

Yeah, nor personally organizable. This is a huge issue.

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the organizability or lack thereof, while an issue, isn't as bad as the fact it literally lies to you about owning the game though, which without any search on the bundle you can't even double check (except by literally comparing 750 titles on 25 pages), which is why i felt it important to emphasize.

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Yeah, I just did a ctrl+f on all 25 pages, and discovered that a game that was recommended to me by a friend "one shot", which is listed on the game page as being included in the bundle, apparently isn't in the bundle. Kind of a bummer, since I really want to try the game my friend recommended.

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that should never happen and would be an issue you should take to the support then. we're talking about the opposite here: the store pages for games you've bought in the bundle don't know you own them and ask you to buy the bundle (and/or individual game) again.


also, just for the record, yes, OneShot is supposed to be in the bundle, and shows up, on my account, and at the time of writing this, on page 21, ymmv.

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OneShot is on page 21 for me too. Just a heads up that the game's title is just one word ("oneshot" not "one shot")

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Are you sure it doesn't show? Remember that you have to first manually find the game in and download it from the 25 48 pages of the bundle (page 21 according to others) before it will show as registered to your account on the game's individual webpage.

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yes exactly, that's the issue. unless you do that it tells you to buy games you already have.


since the store page already shows you the bundle (and asks you to also buy that again) they just need to add a "does the user have this bundle" check in addition to the failing "is it in their library" one.