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Get list of currently recognized active games.

One of the biggest hurdles to communicate with the ITAD API is to get game IDs that are needed by our endpoints. Usually, you will get these IDs by doing a lookup or search when you are trying to get to specific game, or they will be a part of the response of other endpoints, e.g. Deals list.

With this endpoint we are experimenting with returning a list of all currently active games, which could be used to bootstrap your application.

However, this is not a load once and forget solution. Each game on IsThereAnyDeal has associated products, which are basically entries from shops that we cover. Think about "game" on ITAD as a container, that includes products and has some other associated information or metadata.

Once a game loses its products, it will become inactive. This can happen for example if the game is renamed. In such cases, new game entry will be created, and products will be reassigned to the new game. This can happen automatically by a system, or manually.

The automatic product to game assignment is not perfect, and sometimes needs to be fixed manually. This may happen because of various sitations, for example:

• developer changes the game's name, but some of the shops don't reflect the change and keep using the old name
• shop lists a game in a slightly different way that our system can't manage automatically
• remaster of the game is released with the same name as the old entry
• a different game with the same name exists and products needs to be split to correct entries

To make things even more complicated, the shop may change their product ID, or may use different product IDs for different regions, based on their internal structure. To get a better understanding of this, you can check any game on ITAD for its products. As an example, here's Red Dead Redemption 2.

The game IDs are ensured to be ascending. You can check for new entries by using your last known game ID to get only new entries. However, there may be a case, where an old inactive game becomes active again

• it stopped being sold, but has since returned and is being sold again.

We are looking for a feedback about this endpoint. You can currently use it to bootstrap your application, but it should not be relied upon for 100% coverage all the time. At the very least, if you end up relying on this map and omit doing lookups, you should check for new entries, and periodically (e.g. once a week) recheck the entire list.

There is a possiblity to return all known game entries, including the inactive ones, but this would include a lot of dead entries that will never be used again, like when a shop listed a game with typo and such.

The maximum number of games you will get is 10000. Use last parameter to get more entries.

This endpoint is supposed to be used in concert with Game Changes endpoint.