I just got a bundle of over 700 games, and decided to make an account for them. I've made an account, and it says the games are linked to the account, but they are not showing up in my library. Am I doing something wrong? Please help!
We’ve made a few changes, the bundle download page will now appear on a few more places when logged in:
Please do not run scripts to issue 100s of request to the site. It is not necessary to go and click on everything to own it. You already own everything as soon as you’ve bought it. We decided that more people would rather their library not be flooded with hundreds of things they don’t want, and let them choose the things they do want by making all the bundle items hidden by default.
We also made this change to reduce load on the server, since there are thousands of people buying the bundle. After the bundle hype has died down we’d be glad to look into adding a button to show everything in your library at once. In the meantime we’ll be making more changes to how games are displayed on the bundle download page to make it easier to find what you’re looking for.
Thanks
Just wondering: Is there no way to add the games to the "Owned Items" section of the Itch.io desktop app aside from manually clicking the Download button on each of the >700 games in the bundle? I ask because I find it way too time consuming to add them by interacting with each of the games manually. I know that I already own the games and can access them freely from the bundles page, but I want to use the convenience features of the Itch.io desktop app to manage them (queuing downloads from the right-click menu, pre-defined install locations, automatic updates, etc). But even when I open the bundles page in the app's web browser, I am not able to use these features. It seems that the games need to be in my Owned Items list, first. I am unconcerned with cluttering my library since (in my opinion, at least) it's far easier to search or filter it to find what I want than it is to manually download games from the bundle page (especially since, so far as I can tell, the bundle is not searchable from the bundles page!). As such, I would really appreciate a way to unhide the bundle items en masse.
Thank you!
Could we get the choice to hide them instead? Buying 700+ games and now I have no way to sort/browse them. the app should show all my games. You have filters and everything. :( I expect to see games I own when I press "Library" in the app. And instead I can not use the app to see my games at all. I am a sad gamer.
Is it possible to expose these games as owned to the API? I use Playnite to manage my library and it doesn't have the games listed.
If it would cause more issue or is a lot of work to not break other things, no big deal I can wait until things calm down traffic wise. A big thanks for putting this together!
firstly, thanks for this great bundle with great games for a great cause.
that said, my main issues with the current setup are:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for this bundle and your support of change. At some point, please make it so we can either claim all to our library (I'd prefer that to having an unfilterable unordered 25 page list). Or make it so we can search/filter the list of bundle games, or make it so that we can go to the store page to add/install the game please. Right now, I have a lot of games I wanted to play in this bundle, but I can't find half of them, and don't really feel like spending hours going through all the pages to look for them. The bundle is little more than a donation right now since we can't play most of the games without putting in a ton of work getting them added to our library so we can install them.
If you go to explore, you basically go to the normal site. You have your account on the top right and can navigate to your purchases. It's under the bundles tab.
It's a workaround but don't worry after the bundle ends I'm sure we'll get an option to add it to the library. It's still a growing bundle though.
I don't see why there cannot be a zipped(compressed file) of all the games for this download. Or even a simple "A-E Title", "F-J Title" etc. zipped downloads. Better yet: have a selection menu of all games, simple text form (no extensive html) with a check box and search that you want to download. Have a max game limit if you want, but a batch download of the games in a compressed file so you're not wasting bandwidth. Compressed files will definitely lighten the load for those who wish to see every game they just bought and for me that's why I bought it. This is my first time using Itch so I don't know if other bundles offer zipped downloads for multiple games or whatever but it would be a good feature to have and save bandwidth. There should be something available like that. I understand hosting problems and costs associated, thus suggesting a compressed file version. Still could be large but even breaking them into segments would be a great benefit. Id like to own all the games I just purchased and being disallowed use of scripts for batch downloads( I understand why ) Not for myself particularly but for my family and extended family(shared computer) to have a wide range of games to play upon their choosing.
EDIT//
After seeing some of the games in this bundle and how poorly they are optimized with their file sizes for what they offer - NEVERMIND. This option is completely off the table. Some of these small/short games with none-high graphical detail and they're over 1Gb in size, my option would not work at all. SO JUST FORGET I SAID ANYTHING LIKE THE *IDIOT* I AM.
Thanks folks.
Thanks for setting it up this way -- I, for one, did not want my library to get spammed with everything (the many game asset collections, for example). I prefer to add these individually. At some point, though, it would be nice to have a simple list of all the content in the bundle, maybe as a downloadable text file.
Do you know if there is a way to add all the games to your library at once? I already know that I want to add all of them, but the process of doing this is cumbersome - you have to click on the "Download" button for each game, wait for the download page to load, then go back to the bundle page and click "Download" for the next game. It would take at least a couple of hours to do this manually.
I found myself copying the URL and opening it up in multiple tabs so I could add multiple games easily (use find on the page if you know the name). I believe the interface was only built in by leaf in the last few days. https://twitter.com/moonscript/status/1269068365991010304 Perhaps if you suggest, he may be able to make changes at some point.
Itch.io have some selections from the bundle as suggestions:
https://itch.io/c/891735/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality-selections
You can't. They some how came to the conclusion that people who are purchasing hundreds of games at once want their library to be completely empty without spending 3 clicks per item adding each individual game to the collection. Apparently they thought we'd like to spend two hours adding everything to our libraries before we can easily view and sort them. It's really dumb.
I'm glad they didn't add all of them to the library at once. But I also should be able to download the game from the game's normal page. And I need to be able to search for games that are for mac, since a lot of them aren't and I get disappointed when I have to look at all of the other ones I can't even use. :-)
The games are still not searchable in library though, and if you search through the itch.io main store search feature the game download link is not available until you've added it to library via the bundle page download link. I assume itch.io will get this sorted out at some point, but until then I'll go ahead and paste the following link with higher-profile games and their respective page numbers on the download links as it may prove helpful and maybe prevent some from being turned off the itch.io platform which I truly hope continues to develop the user interface as I think it is hugely important for the future of gaming to have this space for so much independent creativity:
Hiya,
First off, I would love to say thank you for the bundle. Great value, great cause. I just want to add my support to this topic. When I go to a game's page and click download, it doesn't add it to my library. I have to click download from the bundle page, which seems to be in a random order. For example, to get Desktop Goose to show up in my library I had to search page by page to find it. It was on page 20.
I would love a "claim all" button.
Thanks!
Still says this on the bundle page: "Note: We will be updating this page soon, we know it's difficult to navigate so many games. We know you want a button to add show everything in your library. No need to reach out. Any new games added to the bundle will automatically show up here. Thanks!"
Anybody know if this button is still in development?
It shows under Bundle. Then you have to get a game at a time. Or like someone suggested, paste Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality by itch.io and 1391 others - itch.io in the itch app and it'll show them all and allow you to install them directly