[Bug 42970] Add Origin, Uplay and Battle.net as Licence type

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42970

Olivier F. R. Dierick <o.dierick at piezo-forte.be> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |o.dierick at piezo-forte.be

--- Comment #2 from Olivier F. R. Dierick <o.dierick at piezo-forte.be> ---
What was the point of adding Steam and GOG in the license field in the first
place? The other values are license types. Steam and GOG provides at least
retail, free to use and demo license type applications AFAIK. I think Steam and
GOG licenses are confusing.

Uplay and Battle.net are not the same as Steam, GOG or Origin. The former are
the developer's own proprietary distribution service, while the later are
independent distribution platforms. Uplay and Battle.net are synonyms of
Ubisoft and Blizzard, respectively.

AFAIK, there are games that are available on both Uplay and Steam (Far Cry 3,
Driver San Francisco, to name a few). Some are even on all distribution
platforms (star wars battlefront is available on Steam, GOG and Origin).

The main interest in knowing if a game is from Steam, GOG or other distribution
platform is because they often provides modified versions of the application.
That information should go into the version field.

IMO, a change that would be more beneficial would be to split the version field
into "platform" and "version number". The "platform" field would list
distribution platform (Steam, GOG, Origin, Discs, other). The version number
field should be the free-form alpha-numeric version number. Search on the
platform field could be added to the AppDB.

The "other" entry (a better name can be found) would mean Uplay for Ubisoft,
Battle.net for Blizzard or whatever proprietary distribution service used by
the developer. There would be no need to list them because there already is a
developer field to search on.

-- 
Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the
above URL to reply.
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching all bug changes.