IGDB Data Switch Discussion

I just discovered this button

not sure why but I never noticed it being there until now. This is going to save me a ton of clicks in the future, absolutely love it!

Where is this link taking its data from? For example, why is there a steam link for Potion Permit (2022) | Grouvee but not The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily (2025) | Grouvee ? Both games have a link to their respective steam page configured in the websites > stores section.

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I just added that in the last week or so. It’s pulling data from all of the years of Grouvee users linking Steam games to Grouvee games. If no one has ever gone into the steam/import_help page and linked The Great Villainess, it won’t have the data. I’m sure there are some incorrect links, but I actually haven’t run across one yet. IGDB does have this data, I just haven’t gotten around to adding it to the import. In theory I wouldn’t need to have Grouvee users link the games if I was downloading the IGDB data.

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I had Root (2020) | Grouvee in my “Playing” shelf (or maybe the non-igdb version of it?) but it has been incorrectly auto-replaced by Root (2015) | Grouvee - can you check up what happened there?

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TBH the Root 2015 game also looks cool so if this is guerilla marketing it is working

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Let me look into this. I’m suspecting it’s because IGDB gave me a huge list of GB → IGDB mappings, and I’m sure some of them are mismapped. I can see 3 different GB games were mapped to this 2015 entry. I’ll go back through the game backups I have and see if I can figure it out. I’m sure there are more of these out there. I was just looking at Giant Bomb’s wiki the other day, and there appears to be no way to look up games in their database by that old Giant Bomb ID I have stored. I hope they have those stored somewhere and put them back on their new pages at some point.

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That is indeed what happened. That mapping list they gave me had GB ID 80377 (2020 game) mapped to IGDB 24036 (https://www.igdb.com/games/root). They also had the correct game (GB ID 51605) mapped to it. This scenario is also why I built that move data functionality. I knew there were going to be screw ups, and at least people can move their data pretty quickly. I’m not too sure what else I can really do. Maybe I can create a forum thread for people to report them so other people can move their data.

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