An idea for a Gaming Library without a Plex Arcade Sub

[nuvoli]

I’m a Longtime Plex Pass Lifetime owner, and super happy.

When I saw Arcade being announced, my initial reaction was: “Wow, finally a great way to catalog my ROMs” - Plex does a tremendous job of neatly organizing Shows, Movies, Music and Podcasts. Games (and Books / Comics) are obvious additions.

Being in the Tech industry, I understand perfectly the tech limitations on running it on Linux.

Given the original Plex DNA (i.e, bring your own media), reading the headline, It seemed obvious to me that I could catalog my games, and maybe download them on a device to run them locally even if the server didn’t support it.

I was very surprised when I saw that i couldn’t even add a Game library on my ubuntu/ansible/docker setup because playing wasn’t supported.

I can’t understand (outside of business reasons) why this initial implementation strays away from the Plex way and forces a subscription and Server-side support.

I believe this simple change in the feature’s delivery would make a lot of geeks happy. And maybe ease the current frustrations around this topic.

Is there a chance that this feature is brought closer to the original Plex view of the world, that owned content can be organized locally for free?

[rflick]

I agree with you. I was under the belief that having a Plex Pass Lifetime membership meant something. Anything new I would have access too and wouldn’t have to worry about another monthly subscription, but I guess we were mistake. I almost see this as saying you can watch movies but we now have a option to watch tv shows but it’s going to be an add on you have to pay for.