Welcome to Planbeast
Planbeast is a free service that lets you
find people to play your favorite Xbox 360 games with online.
Planbeast allows you to schedule and join new
online events for any Xbox Live-compatible title.
Have you ever called up the multiplayer mode of a 360 game you enjoy,
only to see that nobody else seems to be playing it online — no matter
how often you check? Or perhaps you can find other players, but you
wish you knew a little bit more about your opponents before spending
the next half hour with them?
Planbeast is here for you.
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I've been scratching my head about why the database seems to be missing so many titles that were published in 2009. Since newer games tend to get much more online play, this discovery has been a little embarrassing.
I have finally discovered the culprit: Planbeast's source for getting new game data, 360voice.com, at some point last year changed the numeric IDs of their game database, as part of the process of merging their data with their new parent company, GamerDNA. Since Planbeast's database uses 360voice's game IDs in order to figure out which games are new and which it already knows about, this led to Planbeast getting confused, and effectively ignoring a lot of new titles.
I certainly don't blame GamerDNA for consolidating their own DB, and recognize the responsibility is wholly mine. This is simply the sort of thing that can happen when you leave a project with external dependencies alone for several months, as I did with Planbeast. There's little for me to do about it other than clean up the mess, and I sincerely appreciate all the help y'all are giving me with pointing out games that ought to be in our database. I add them as fast as I can, when you do, so please keep them coming!
