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Pretty actually. How hard would it be to include physical Playstation games by scanning the barcode or something like that? For consoles it still makes sense t

Pretty actually. How hard would it be to include physical Playstation games by scanning the barcode or something like that? For consoles it still makes sense to buy discs... they're discounted a lot more and faster than the digital versions. And with me having a more than respectable backlog, I almost always buy on disc and almost always after it's discounted by 50%.

Adachi91 2y ago
Pretty trivial, I built a browser scanner for my phone using a QR scanner library[1], while browsers are contemplating adding an API natively.[2] You would just need to use a lookup service for the UPN of the game title. [1]: https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Detection_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det...
- nottorp 2y ago
  No offense but it's not the barcode scanning that's the problem for this feature :)
- lamarcke 2y ago
  That looks really cool, and i believe we could do something by trying to match the game title's with our database. Thanks for the heads up!
lamarcke 2y ago
I would guess that's pretty doable for our mobile version, but I can't promise without doing some PoC fist But it would probably to this: - Scan the Barcode - Fetch the product name from it and try finding a match in our database (ManticoreSearch does a good job in finding matches with similar names) It all depends on if the product name would even be there at all, or if it can be retrieved easily
- lamarcke 2y ago
  Since i don't have a Playstation console currently, can you tell me if disk games are also featured in your library? (E.g. other users may see them when they enter your profile) If they are, you could import them directly from our PSN integration.
  - nottorp 2y ago
    Hmm the disc games don't show up in 'purchased' but do show up in 'played'. Not sure what the api offers. Of course, that only goes for discs that have been in the console at least once. Believe it or not, I have some still shrink wrapped.
    - lamarcke 2y ago
      Hmm i understand. I'm going to add this to our backlog and see how it can be done in the next weeks. Thanks!

Adachi91 2y ago

Pretty trivial, I built a browser scanner for my phone using a QR scanner library[1], while browsers are contemplating adding an API natively.[2] You would just need to use a lookup service for the UPN of the game title. [1]: https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Detection_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det...

nottorp 2y ago
No offense but it's not the barcode scanning that's the problem for this feature :)
lamarcke 2y ago
That looks really cool, and i believe we could do something by trying to match the game title's with our database. Thanks for the heads up!

lamarcke 2y ago

I would guess that's pretty doable for our mobile version, but I can't promise without doing some PoC fist But it would probably to this: - Scan the Barcode - Fetch the product name from it and try finding a match in our database (ManticoreSearch does a good job in finding matches with similar names) It all depends on if the product name would even be there at all, or if it can be retrieved easily

lamarcke 2y ago
Since i don't have a Playstation console currently, can you tell me if disk games are also featured in your library? (E.g. other users may see them when they enter your profile) If they are, you could import them directly from our PSN integration.
- nottorp 2y ago
  Hmm the disc games don't show up in 'purchased' but do show up in 'played'. Not sure what the api offers. Of course, that only goes for discs that have been in the console at least once. Believe it or not, I have some still shrink wrapped.
  - lamarcke 2y ago
    Hmm i understand. I'm going to add this to our backlog and see how it can be done in the next weeks. Thanks!