Keyshop integration on GG.deals - process explained

remike · 2021-02-24T11:42:27+00:00

What are keyshops? Keyshops are unauthorized game distributors that resell cd-keys at market price. They don't have ties with official game publishers and t...

renyo

I would also like to know if there is an ETA for stage 4

pedrornd

games are really expensive here in brazil and having keyshop integration is amazing for us! thanks!

remike

pedrornd I actually bought half of my Xbox library from Brazil store because it was cheaper there 😃 But yeah, I understand, I can't wait for stage 4 myself.

We've accomplished a huge backend milestone of reworking the indexer queue. That enables us to merge both "worlds" and add resellers to the Deals page. Hopefully, it should be ready in a few weeks.

pedrornd

our currency is weak so for people living here games are expensive

thank you again for the amazing work!

xxJIYOxx

I saw the update! 🙂 It's completely here! Thank you much for the hard work guys. Is there any place I can give back or donate? This integration is a huge help.

remike

Update - 27.09

Stage 4 is underway:

The updated wishlist is now LIVE. It's fully functional with official stores and keyshops. The Stores and DRM filters are no longer disabled when keyshops are active.
The Deals & homepage integration is nearly ready. We're testing it on the production server. Once we make sure that everything works as intended, we will unlock this integration for everyone. It's just a question of days now - maximum 2 weeks.

xxJIYOxx I saw the update! 🙂 It's completely here! Thank you much for the hard work guys. Is there any place I can give back or donate? This integration is a huge help.

No need to donate. Just keep coming back to GG.deals and use our website regularly. That's the greatest help. 🙂

PS: apologies it took so long.

jcjhys

I think there's a problem with the wishlist showing keyshops when the option is disabled, it seems fine everywhere else, but otherwise it's really cool to have DRM filters and everything available now, great work.

It seems to happen for me when applying a preset filter for sorting lowest, and filtering a few DRMs, it seems the DRM filter is the cause.

rob006

jcjhys It should be fixed now. Thanks for the report.

remike

Stage 4 is now live. Thank you for your patience, we realize it took a very long time.

Now the only thing left is enabling price alerts for keyshops (stage 5). It also happens to be one of the most requested features site-wide. It is therefore our top priority.

der_saucier

Thank you for all the great work you put into this so far!
I noticed that when I turn off Keyshops the Historical Low's are still counting them. That means an Offical-Store Historical Low is only displayed if it's also lower than all the Keyshop prices of all time. I think there should be an option to unselect keyshops for recognizing and displaying Historical Low's.
Because when I turn off Keyshops I'm aware that they useally beat the offical prices and taking those prices into consideration when I unselected them is not helpful for evaluating deals from offical stores. Since the Price-History of every game already allow to look up an Historical Low excluding keyshops, I hope this will be fairly easy to integrate.

rob006

der_saucier Keyshops will be completely ignored if you disable keyshops in menu

caenaz

I think is necessary an update for two keyshops: kinguin and g2play. Their precalculated fee with paysafecard is not realistic. 90% of people use paypal or credit card.

As fix you could add an "Special Discount" negative for kinguin and g2play that disable paysafecard discount and get a paypal/credita card fee.

For cheaping games the fee is very important and showing these kinguin prices confuse doing lose the useful of a price compare app.

anna1

Thank you for finally including all stores.

Blinkamum

I am sorry to be this person, but is there any update on the timeline for adding keyshops to the price alerts feature. The last mention of it in this comment chain is in Septemper of last year. I know that 7 months is not that long when talking about designing, implementing, and releasing a major update like this, so I am not looking for a concrete date, just an rough update on progress.

Thanks!

remike

Blinkamum

The implementation on keyshop Alerts is very difficult and we still haven't figured it out. :/

We're focusing on different tasks in the meantime. For example, this one should be ready soon:
Filterting by OS / platform on Deals & Wishlist pages
We're also looking into adding console games to GG.deals (or at least some basic BETA implementation first)

I'd say that we'll tackle the keyshop alerts afterwards - so we're looking at end of Q2 or Q3. Apologies for the long wait.

czubai

remike

Hi remike! Could you share if we can anticipate this anytime soon? Thanks!

remike

2024 unfortunately. We're currently focused on another major task. Alerts redesign is next.

Keebz

Hello! Has there been a new update that has changed the way keyshop prices are displayed? I liked the previous version where I was able to see keyshop prices if I wanted to, but had the slider always on "official" stores as I prefer to support devs through those when possible. Now it seems like if I want to see what the lowest price for a game is from "official" stores, I have to turn off keyshops entirely. Am I missing something?

Gorthezar

Keebz I agree would like to keep keyshops on but I don't want them displayed in my overall results for the cheapest option as I prefer to buy from official stores but would still like the option to see the price at keyshops.

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