Ah no, this wasn't what I was talking about at all.... This is more the "scene disappears for 3 months, then reappears for 3 months." Over and over.
Disney definitely did this with DVDs (and BluRays) although now I think (almost) everything is on Disney+ indefinitely.... And of course, they give customers everything and their stock price tanks.

If you don't think a scene is representative or good enough and you decide to pull it, that's your call. But coming from someone who made a LOT of scenes I thought were only so-so (especially early on).... The producer is often a poor judge of his/her own work.
In other words.... Some scenes I think are average or worse have REALLY sold well over the years. I've even gone on record and stated how bad I think "Scene X" is.... And people still buy it!

They did it with VHS and (I think) laser disks as well. It goes back well over 3 decades

Yeah I 100% remember VHS commercials before the film saying, "Get it before it goes back into the vault forever!" and then it would be available again a year or two later.

Not defending the practice, but back then I was working at a music store that also did brisk business in used DVDs/BluRays.

Even the biggest, most beloved mainstream movie would eventually turn up used.... and be priced at $5. (Maybe $8-10 max.)

But you know which used DVDs STILL got priced (and sold) for $20 or more?
Disney films.

Getting back to the original subject, if a scene has a code number, the UMD store has a specific field for that, the "Product ID" field, which is in the last block below the model selection when you are setting up the download. Saves having to mess up a good title with a code, and can be searched on, so people can check if they've previously bought the scene.

I would argue that it still wouldn't hurt to pop that at the end or beginning of a filename. Microsoft folder searches can be wonky in their own right so it's just a "backup" way in case searching for the model's name fails (assuming you included the model's name) or you made the filename the exact title of the clip which is fine too.

I used to do programming so naming and structure are carved into my soul. Except naming within programming is often the wild wild west to most programmers who put zero thought into naming patterns for their code (I looked at so many other people's work to fix things when they would break but the person had moved on to another company).

Agree with that except I'd put the code at the start, not the end, as UMD file names are chopped off at 50 characters. Plus if you have a scene code at the start then the files will automatically sit next to each other in their download directory.

For example, the Dirndl Dress Gungetank scene we've just released has 2 files:
gm-4g007-lady-jennifer-dirndl-gungetank.zip is the photoset
gm-4g007-v1-lady-jennifer-dirndl-solo-gungetank-hb.mp4 is the video
The scene code is gm-4g007, indicating a series 4 gunge scene, No. 7 of the series. We always zero pad our numbers so computers will order them properly, hence 007 and not just 7. And a pure coincidence this one has that number, it's nothing to do with spy films.

But I was meaning there's no need to mess up the scene titie by shoving the scene code number into it - just put it in the Product ID field instead.


LOL! Know what you mean abut random code practices. I organise my collection by producer and scene name. So for instance that "Messy Swimsuit Comparison" scene I mentioned in my swimsuit filling poll, if I was to buy it, would go in:

K:/wam1-main-purchased-collection/Saturation Hall/Messy Swimsuit Comparison/(files)

I create folders for every producer and then within those, folders for every scene from that producer, usually just using the scene name the producer gave it copied and pasted from the store. That way the files can keep their original names, because only files from that one scene will be in that subfolder.