Post by dcrockerjr in The new palestine bundle bundle page issues

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the problem with that is not every game on the bundle page link we were emailed has a download button, so there is no way to actually get all of the games in the bundle into your library, in other words a lot of games will never have that nice "you bought this" bar at the top even though they claimed to participate in the bundle.

and since leafo disabled the transaction occurring like it should those games will never actually be in our libraries

granted there are some crazies like aldenfen who like buying stuff then tossing it in the trash, but most collectors want everything they buy to be in their library

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aldenfen3 years ago (2 edits) (+1)

Excuse me? what do you mean by 'tossing it in the trash', you can still get the downloads from the bundle page, haven't seen a single thing that is not obtainable there. Reason I personally prefer things to be on the bundle page to begin with, rather than the library, is because A) at least the bundle page is paginated, and B) at least i can search by name. The library lacks either benefit. If they fixed the library with ANY ability to sort or search within and or pagination? I'd be glad if they autoa dded everything to the library.

And if you find games that lack actual downloads, you need to bring up the names here because they are supposed to have them, so they can actually fix the list an remove the ones not complying with the requirements to be in the bundle, like some games already did. (Some only offered steam keys, and some took time to fix, like the Framed collection originally didn't show me any download links, but now it does.)

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dcrockerjr3 years ago(+1)

the itch.io dev tos doesn't require a dev to provide anything, it also allows a dev to delete purchased games. so reporting a dev will do no good. having the product flagged as owned and in your library (even if there isn't actually a download) is still itch's responsibility though.

and "tossed in the trash" is completely accurate,

it's not simply the nice banner saying you bought it, which also helps prevent accidental rebuying,

the key thing is leafo didn't hide the games, he removed them. yes there is a bundle page where theoretically you could click download at some point in the future if the store page still exist but it is not a true tied to your account DL link. so if a dev deletes a store page which is very common then you will never be able to claim the game. this is very important because only a handful of bad devs will delete the actual download once you've purchased, just the store page. and if it is banner up top claimed then even if the store page is deleted you can get a support email that will take you to the download, but the bundle page is based on the store pages, no store page, no download, even if a download exist for that game. this is why it is important for the product to actually be in your library as opposed to having the itch.io equivalent of an unclaimed steam key

as far as searching for something in your library it is easiest to search the store then use the owned banner at top, or use a 3rd party game library tracker like isthereanydeal.

https://itch.io/t/1001232/developer-red-flags-game-red-flags

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tmky3 years ago

For people like me who actually buy things on itch and use it regularly, having upwards of 2000 items added to the library would make it unreasonably tedious and difficult to navigate. Until the ability to search and sort libraries is improved, keeping it functionally useable takes priority over some collector's need to demonstrate ownership of every single thing included in a $5 bundle explicitly organized for charity. Priority is the operative word there.

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dcrockerjr3 years ago

https://itch.io/my-collections has terrible coding, that coding is not going to get better if the solution is to only have 3 or 4 games.

my prefered way to search for a game in my itch library right now is to simply hit the main page and search then click on the you own it banner to download. also chrome/tabs outliner can be used to create a sort of favorites list, then there is always ITAD.

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