There have been a number of community efforts lovingly creating third-party services and software to help enhance the experience around Stadia gaming for one another. The browser extensions, the game databases, the Discord Rich Presence.
However, they all seem to run into a common shortfall: The games must be manually looked up and their data must be updated by hand, instead of there being an easy way to access the information for every published and available game off of Stadia.com. Because that detailed info such as language support or even anything other than a title and an image is behind a regwall, it can't be polled by scripts.
Having a reliable, Google-updated source for that info that could be spread with no further human error sources into the various fanmade services could really boost both the uptake of the services and willingness to make them in the first place. Maintaining an updated database with these shadow drops and whatnot happening is something of a responsibility, and some otherwise great projects risk falling by the wayside when their manual updates become too much of a chore.
It doesn't have to include prices or anything that would vary between regions. Just an interface for looking up the info that's listed in the bottom table on every game's store page, in whatever language. English should be fine.
Hi @Larris,
That is a good idea/question. Did you already shared your feedback with the Feedback option within the app or stadia.com?
If I may suggest how to ask for this feature: please provide a API that provides information about the game library. So it is easier for third party plugins to stay up to date with the correct information about that Stadia games at each region.
Hope this helps. ![]()
Hi @Larris,
That is a good idea/question. Did you already shared your feedback with the Feedback option within the app or stadia.com?
If I may suggest how to ask for this feature: please provide a API that provides information about the game library. So it is easier for third party plugins to stay up to date with the correct information about that Stadia games at each region.
Hope this helps. ![]()
That's an excellent suggestion. I don't know why I didn't use the phrase API as such, although that's exactly what the idea entails. Feedback option it is!