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[MZ per X]

i like the new logo. really sweet looks better and more professional than the orgegami-logo

I'm not saying that the logo looks unprofessional, or ugly. No, it's the perfect logo - for a site with flash games for kiddies.

[Independent]

A logo should be meaningful and that it is not in my view by MG.

[gene]

Mobygames asks for your money:
They have set up a "patreon" (never heard of this before) where you can donate money on a monthly base (!).
The "rewards" are from nothing (ah no, their "gratitude") to a link to your website in every Mobygames site in the footer.

This is the most important part of it:

How your contribution will help
Your contribution will help us to continue modernizing the site (including making it mobile-friendly), improve contribution tools and flows, get the catalogue further up to date, attract more contributors and build a publicly accessible API.

Additionally, in the medium-term we intend to make MobyGames data available under some form of Creative Commons license so other sites, apps and organizations will be able to easily use our data for other purposes. There's less point to doing this without an effective API - so that's what you can help with!

While this sounds as a move in the right direction, I still have a bad feeling about it. It's still a "commercial" project, since the owner is a company. Well, we had this discussion a while ago
Who will give money for a project, that can be cancelled or sold to anybody at any time without warning?

[Ultyzarus]

Meh, I just want Oregami to be up and running I'm eager to rebuild something from scratch, but making it as flawless as I can

[Rola]

My girlfriend Paranoia finds it difficult to comprehend how those things like donationware, Kickstarter or Patreon work...

Patreon is less than year old, never heard of it either. Quick glance reveals people who make web comics or ...video game reviews on YouTube. Surely MobyGames offers more to the public.

Still, I doubt it will allow MG to hire me

[MZ per X]

Who will give money for a project, that can be cancelled or sold to anybody at any time without warning?

Besides that, transparency is key here. People must know what's done with their money.

I never understood why the old owners of MG kept their financials hidden, and why Blue Flame Labs continues to do so.

[MZ per X]

Surprise, surprise!

After over a year of silence, VGList is live. Doesn't look very functional, but I didn't sign up until now. Will check it out soon.

[gene]

Surprise, surprise!

After over a year of silence, VGList is live. Doesn't look very functional, but I didn't sign up until now. Will check it out soon.

I registered but did not yet get the confirmation mail.
Did anybody manage to find one of the 7 available games and display some data?

[hydr0x]

Same here, registered but no email

[gene]

[MZ per X]

Will check it out soon.

Never mind, this is as basic as it gets.

http://vglist.net/vglist/game/1/1/

(If you replace the first "1", you can view the other games.)

[hydr0x]

Basic indeed!!

[gene]

http://vglist.net/vglist/game/1/1/

Sucht mal bei Google nach ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also referred to simply as E.T.) is a 1982 adventure video game developed and published by Atari""

[hydr0x]

Let's hope that's just test data then Oh, English please

[MZ per X]

Okay, now they have 20649 games in 58235 variations in the database!