Introducing Game Swag

Awesome!

Wow! Very helpful site indeed. Thank you much for putting in all this effort for fans. I already checked it out and bookmarked immediately. ^^ In the meantime…can I have your autograph?

This is so useful! I’m on the hunt for a Player’s Guide to get for my birthday/Christmas and this a great site rather then browse Ebay endlessly. Thanks alot Tomato!

wow!! stoked =D
such a good idea for a site!!!

The approximate collection value gives the price for (Pre-CD) games without the box and manual right? It would be great to have the option to mention that the game is loose/complete/missing manual/hairy/etc.

Great site. I hope a lot of users will come around 😀

How are you so awesome?!

Now I have to catch up though, this site looks chock full of things relevant to my interests…

Oh and a feature that would make it better? RSS FEED for the news items!

Saturnome: Right now it does the overall average – it wouldn’t really be possible to get specific average prices based on condition until I can get a full data license, which is really expensive 🙁

Halloween: There is a news RSS feed – http://gameswag.com/feed You can also subscribe to comment feeds for any page.

This is very neat. I’m checking it out right now.

I’m pretty sure this’ll become yet another one of those sites I visit daily.

For some reason I can’t write a review or submit it on game swag, does anyone know why?

Did you sign up an account first?

I’m so glad you made this site. Definitely signed up and made an account. You’re a genius, Mato.

Great concept for a site. The pricing is still sketchy on a lot of things, but I suspect that will work itself out eventually. Good articles on there as well; reminded me to keep tabs on Ni no Kuni and its awesome included book.

Question: What kind of swag are we allowed to submit data for? Because I’ve got a ton of stuff I’d be willing to photograph and enter, mostly small things. (Coffee mugs, notepads, shirts, posters, misc. stuff) Is that the kind of thing you want to have accounted for on Game Swag?

Yeah, until I can get a full data license pricing’s going to be a little generic – basically we ran the auto-pricer on most of the stuff at least once but can’t keep ALL the items updated regularly. Still, if you find some items you think are absolutely priced wrong, let me know so I can look into it.

As for what kind of stuff you’re allowed to add – pretty much anything. Big stuff, small stuff, boring stuff, awesome stuff, it’s all good. Just as long as it follows the basic guidelines on the site, of course. Coffee mugs, notepads, shirts, etc. are all perfect for the site I’d say. There are a lot of games on the site right now, which is cool and all, but the more non-game stuff, the better 😀

Cool. I had a feeling that you were looking for little things like that. I’ll take some pics later, and add a few items (under the name Bacon Tree, of course). Should be fun to try and catalog my assorted stuff.

Glad to see it’s finally rolling out. It’s beautiful work Mato!

You made metafilter! Awesome! Congrats Mato!

But…I can’t help but feel lazy about not contributing. Sorry about that bro 😀

Heh, it’s odd – I’m almost certain I chanced upon the site a few days before you posted this, and I had no idea… 😛 Certainly an impressive endeavour, no doubt.

Its nice to see its finished now. It looks very promising.

Whoa, you’re certainly pro when it comes to web design… Not that I’d doubt the list ends at translation, sweet work there!

Mato,would this by any chance conatain….Klonoa merch?The series is kind of unknown so I doubt you know,but if iyou do,it can give the series more recognition.

chaosbreeder: The merchandise database is created by the community, so if you want Klonoa stuff to be on the site, it’s pretty simple to add some on your own. Just follow the help & tutorial stuff on the site and it should be a cinch!

I love you. This site is so awesome! 😀 Yeah, @TGP, for a translator/hacker dude, Mato has some impressive site design skills. 🙂

Not a bad idea Mato,i’ll add to it later in the day,time to make Klonoa mainstream!:D

Now all you need are scrolling Stock increases/decreases on the bottom of the screen.

EB (+0.02), CT (-0.4), M3 (+0.3)…

I tried registering on the site, but I keep getting login failure messages whenever I go to submit my info. Any idea what’s going on?

It does various checks to make sure you’re not a bot, it’s possible you’re accidentally tripping one of those checks. The biggest things are to make sure you enter the code right and make sure you have Javascript on.

Just tried again, and it decided to work this time for no apparent reason. 😐

So Mato, how’s your life now that this site is finally launched? Enjoying some free time I hope! 😀

Where did the $72 price for the EB standee come from? Did I miss any auction?

This is really an incredible site! What’s more, it could easily be expanded to all sorts of non-game-related collectibles, though I can understand wanting to limit the scope of the enterprise, at least for now. But this is a fascinating model.

I don’t know that I’ll have much time to help with it, but if I can, I will. Good luck!

LucasTizma: Still same level as busy as usual, mostly just lots of real-life translation work bogging me down.

Hmmm: I can’t remember off the top of my head since we made that page so long ago, but I’m pretty sure it’s based on old auctions from some years ago. I seem to recall scouring the really old Starmen.Net forums for it.

Zinco: Thanks, if it actually does well enough (not sure it will, since it’s pretty slow-going) I might branch out into other genres I’m interested in too. Big “if” though 😛

Every time I go to the site my computer freezes…

Its fun saying swag…swag swag swag…
SWAG!!!!!

You’ll regret naming it game SWAG. Ever hear of swagfags? They’re bad. They rape pets. Just look it up.