Edit: I'm going to add to this original post and go into a bit more depth than I originally did (adding the suggestions made from the community in this thread too).
The idea is to implement a new page on to the website where you could build up a catalogue of games you own and are in possession of. An example of this would be, I rented and completed
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand from a local store, I'm known (amongst friends) for not trading games in and keeping them which has led to me being asked to help with games that are attached to my profile but games I am no longer in possession of and so it would be useful to be able to compile a complete list of games I own so rather than people having to guess, they'd know for 100% that I do still own this game. - That's the general idea being supported here.
I think the best way to display this page would be on a grid style page, similar to how most online retailers display their products, an example of this can be seen
here. Obviously we'd want to expand on that and have a few little extra features.
Firstly, if possible it'd be nice to display the games with their game art, I just think it'd be a nice touch for the page rather than using the games icon art. Naturally the games would be displayed in alphabetical order.
In addition, under each game it would be nice to display:
• The users star rating for the game. - Note, the users rating and not the community rating.
• Display the users current gamerscore/TA score for each game
• If the option to "Add the game to boost list" has been selected, have it displayed under the title so friends know not only do you own "this" game but you're actively looking to boost "this" game.
Now, this feature won't be tied to the tracking side of the website at all so it will not affect the ratios of games. Think of it as a place to show off your collection or check and see other peoples collections.
Naturally we should be able to limit who can see this information, the normal options we use would be fine, I don't know the exact wording used but something like; "Anyone" and "Just friends" would do I'm sure.
For completeness's sake, here is the inital OP:
Jayour said:I was looking around on TA the other day and I couldn't see this feature, I know we can click "My Games" and see all the games we've played but I rented/borrowed lots of those games and don't own them myself.
What I was thinking was to have a feature where you can build up your collection, it's quite a basic feature I know, but it'd be nice to be able to put together a list of the games you own, I have about 40 unplayed retail titles just sat on my shelves which I'm slowly working through, some of it comes down to needing to boost them etc, now if a friend could look through the list of games I own and go; "Oh yeah, he has COD3, I need to boost that too, I'll let him know", that'd be dead useful.
You could further implement a "Date Completed" tag below it, in green, "Date First Played/Last Played" whichever really, in red and perhaps a "Unplayed" tag in a light grey.
It's not that much different from the Wish List section of the site, except this would be 100% accurate to what games you currently own, the only times it wouldn't be accurate it when the user hasn't updated it!
Thoughts, suggestions?