Re: A Completely Out-of-the-blue Gripe

On 10/3/2024 9:00 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 Prepare for the stupidest complaint I've yet made!
  <rant>
  Look on any digital video-game storefront -Steam, GOG, UPlay,
whatever- and you'll find all sorts of information about the games.
What the title is, what genre it falls under, who developed it, who
published it; why, you might even find user reviews if the store-front
is any good! And one of those pieces of information you usually find
is the release date. Not the most important bit of data, no, but it's
usually there. And because it's a very objective fact, it's the same
on all the store fronts. It's the game the day is released, after all.
How can it vary?
 Ask GOG. Because _every_ game I've gotten from them, the release date
has always been one day earlier than everywhere else. Get a game from
Steam, Epic, EAOrigin, and it says "release date: Oct 29 2002". Get
the same game from GOG and the release date is "Oct 28 2002". And this
discrepancy is driving me mad!
 Yes, it's stupid. But I want consistency in my data! Especially since
I upload all my games into a central database, and GOG's proclivity is
messing things up! I have the same game released on two different
days! It's a paradox! My brain explodes! Do you know how hard it is to
get exploded brain out of carpeting?
 (In fact, I suspect this is purposeful; if you use GOG's own launcher,
or a third-party app like Playnite that combines multiple game
libraries into one mammoth list, GOG's games will always show up first
if you sort by release date.)
 And sure, one day really isn't that bad. Arguably, it's even
permissible; if a game is released officially at 12:00 AM is the date
Dec 31 or Jan 1st? Who's to say? But it annoys me, especially since it
seems an intended tactic by GOG, and not just a misunderstanding or
accident. Stop trying to rewrite history, GOG! Just use the same date
as everyone else!
  </rant>
 Thus ends the most idiotic rant I've ever written* ;-)
 

I'm actually with you although in my case it's Steam, because I look a lot at older games, and it's the date it appeared on Steam, or was re-released on Steam, as such I find their release dates about useless.
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-Justisaur
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