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Then I don't understand why you need the account?
Because it's easier for me to ask game stores for an account than to build an authentication and validation system by myself.
Most of the game stores has official way that allows me to use an account, registered on their platform, in the Gamescovery app, for authentication reasons.
Since I don't need to store any user data besides rated and recommended games, it's a win situation for me, because:
It's the same mechanism when you go to any new webpage/app and they propose to use your existing Google/Apple account instead of creating a new one.
So yeah, answering your question "why do you need to connect your game store account on Gamescovery?" - the answer is "to save money and development time".
Why is this necessary at all?
You also don't need to worry about this if there's no account to speak of.
Connecting my account to your site gives you access to large amounts of personal information, even if you're not using it. And I'm not okay with that.
I need the user to have an account so I know who rated what games and who requested what recommendations. To do that, I need to build a system on my webpage for users to be able create a new account, so I need to store their credentials, which I don't want to do. Or I can use an already existing account from the game store.
I don't think that's true. Or at least this is true if you allow that. When you try to log in with your itch.io account onthe Gamescovery page, they will tell you what data will be accessible to me. See the following screenshot as example: