User/Game ID's Permanent

[BarryCarlyon]

See also this recent post on Game ID’s

How often does game ID/name association change?

I’m working on a rewrite of my bot that also involves migrating to the new API, and the answer to the question in the title of this thread influences how I cache the game ID/name associations. I don’t care about thumbnails, just the text. Here are the two methods I’ve come up with: An LRU sort of cache, which removes records only to conserve space. The few “game” titles that my auto-host is currently scripted to ignore (not really games, but things like IRL, social eating, talk shows, and E3 …