How should we handle the paid version of Desktop Dungeons?

Question

With the paid version of Desktop Dungeons now in beta, it is time to figure out how we are going to handle it. Specifically, while the game has many similarities to the free version, there are a number of changes to how things work. The creators have said that they have no plans to circle back and apply these balance changes to the free version of the game. This means that many of our existing questions, especially the ones dealing with strategies, really only apply to the free version.

Should we create a new tag for the paid version of the game? Should we create a new tag for the free version, and transition all existing questions to it? How should we handle questions that would apply equally to both versions?

I'm particularly worried that it won't be clear to new users which version we're talking about. So I think we'll likely need to both rename the existing tag, and create a tag with a new name, so that either one by itself is clear (and maybe keep the current tag for things that apply to both versions)?

Answer 1

Add desktop-dungeons-free and desktop-dungeons-paid tags, migrate all existing questions to desktop-dungeons-free, and delete desktop-dungeons.

It's not entirely accurate but it is very clear what each is about, and both have the same prefix for auto-completion. I also thought about desktop-dungeons-free and desktop-dungeons-unity, but I have not seen unity as an official version name, so we should probably avoid that.

As for questions that ask about a feature shared between the two games, then they can either receive any one of these tags, or both of them. The advantage of not creating a new tag is that the feature in question may later change for one of the versions but not the other, so it would no longer be shared and should get only one of the tags anyway.

Answer 2

I know that Oak's answer has already been implemented, but I wanted to add an alternative suggestion because I don't feel that the desktop-dungeons-paid tag fits very well (and there isn't an accepted answer yet).

I would like to propose the following solution:

• Questions that are relevant to the full Desktop Dungeons game should be tagged desktop-dungeons (this would include questions that are relevant to both the free version and the full version)

• Questions that are related only to the free Desktop Dungeons game should be tagged desktop-dungeons-free

The rationale behind this being that most users coming to the site will ask questions about the full version (especially when it comes out of beta) and should not have to distinguish between selecting between the paid or free tags; they will just be able to select the desktop-dungeons tag.

Answer 3

We can create two tags: "desktop-dungeons-alpha" and "desktop-dungeons-beta"