They seem to work right, thanks!
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Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel
I haven't worked through the mechanics, but I think that linking to releases will involve linking to the product, then association the releases as a separate step.
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I can't expect how the eventual implementation will turn out, but I'm strongly concerned that, without some suffixes, linking to releases won't be so useful at least from the album pages.
A game title can differ depending on platform or region, but it's not always the case and a port could remain entitled by the same name, so like artists, we should be able to add some suffixes. For instance,
This album has tracks from FFIII DS and FFIV DS, but as there are too many related games and selected platforms, users can hardly get it at the first look (that's why the current platform table malfunctions, since it after all doesn't show which game each selected platform corresponds to). Even if we link them to each release page, users still have to click the links and go to the release pages until they realize those tracks are from the DS releases. That doesn't sound right to me.
So, I suppose an ideal linking has to be;
Final Fantasy III (Nintendo DS)", "
Final Fantasy IV (Nintendo DS), not
Final Fantasy III,
Final Fantasy IV.
Also, if "linking to releases" means a direct linkage to the lowest page in the product hierarchy (like
this) as I assume, I wonder if we ever need this function, since the suffix will perfectly serve the role, and it's common that there are multiple candidates to link.
This album contains "My Hands", the theme song of FFXIII replacing the Japanese one in the international releases, so I'd make the assigned product text like "Final Fantasy XIII (U.S., EU, Final Fantasy XIII Ultimate Hits International)", but we have five releases to link, mainly to due cross-platforming (
150,
151,
152,
153,
154). Which one to select is a bit too subjective, yet linking all of them just makes it messy.
Much simpler is;
Final Fantasy XIII (U.S., EU, Final Fantasy XIII Ultimate Hits International).
It's also helpful that we can sometimes change the assigned text from the linked one. We can already do the same for artists, although it's seen as alias. For
this,
Text -> Nier
Linked URL ->
Nier (Game)
Assigned & Linked Name -> NieR Replicant
So I can't just see much merit in linking to releases, but I don't intend to stop your current plan, or don't even know how it's going to be, in the first place, It's just my two cents.