Twitch category name collision
Currently two (or more) games with the exact same name (usually reboots) share the same category in Twitch. And all the cover art, description, tags are taken from only one of the games. This usually means that the other game(s) effectively completely lacks a page on twitch, despite being a completely different game and having unique gameplay. Can something be done about this?
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Hellifyoudont66 commented
Been getting updates on this post since I voted on it over two years ago. Baffling that literally nothing has been done outside of God of War. Even just muting this and seeing the hypocrisy would almost be preferable since people keep ending up directed here as a "solution". Friendly URLs for categories of shared names/ franchises and the individual IDs tacked onto it with the platform, release year, remake, remaster, or whatever community distinction added to the drop down menu when selecting the game you're playing seems like the best option yet the only thing that happens is more half-baked features that only serve to bloat the site and solving practically nothing for anybody most of the time.
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Lex_Limbo commented
They also refuse to acknowledge that their system prioritizes urls based on release dates
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Lex_Limbo commented
They will tell you to come here and post to create a category for a game that already has a category on twitch
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Lex_Limbo commented
All of which could be solved by IGDB but they refuse to budge
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Lex_Limbo commented
Welcome to the graveyard of forgotten twitch categories
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Lex_Limbo commented
This post needs traction more than my car in the rain
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Lex_Limbo commented
The fact that igdb is owned by twitch, is the root cause of this issue and is unable to help solve this is ridiculous
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Lex_Limbo commented
Is there a way to get a separate url for levelhead?
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Lex_Limbo commented
There is a name collision with levelhead as well
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Lex_Limbo commented
How do we get this fixed for Levelhead... It has been months with no resolution... We have an alternate official name that is being rejected in igdb which would fix this issue
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Lex_Limbo commented
I was told to please reach out to Twitch support about creating a category for Levelhead as it currently has a name collision, has an alternative name already approved - "Levelhead: Platformer Maker" and the other game is defunct & abandoned (no streams have ever happened on Twitch).
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3MERGx commented
There seems to be a game collision for Shadowrun, where only the RPG release is being listed but the FPS, which is a completely different and separate release isn't.
The IGDB team said that Twitch themselves would have to push thru the game thru the UserVoice ticket here. As a community, we are currently streaming under a similar name but would love to be able to stream under the correct category, even if that means adding an 'FPS' to the end of the name to minimize any confusion for Twitch users searching.
Thank you very much,
https://www.igdb.com/g/5wb -
HannyS commented
Another games colliding. Especially problem for our Mafia speedrun community. Since someone added this old C64 game it keeps throwing us into that category. I would kindly ask for fix since IGDB page just would not accept to slightly rename that recently added game....
https://www.igdb.com/games/mafia
https://www.igdb.com/games/mafia--1
Thank you
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GMP__ commented
Seems like this issue is temporarily fixed for God of War. So the priority for this sadly seems to just be silencing the louder communities case-wise rather than doing a site-wide fix that an intern can probably finish in half a day.
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NoobJr commented
Unfortunately, Twitch is not likely to take action while this has such low visibility. Most games impacted by this have small communities so the only thing we can do is raise awareness and get more votes here.
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jRoy7 commented
Here's a idea on how to handle collisions. I'll use Ixion as an example.
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Ixion would bring up every matching game, not just the first one in the IGDB database. Live Channels, Videos, etc would show all matching games combined.
You'd list each matching game, with a Follow button for each one. If you want to limit the list of Live Channels, Videos, etc to a specific game a new drop down could be added for that on the page someplace. Or perhaps that'd just redirect you to a page such as:
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Ixion/40345
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Ixion/152258Where only the one specific game's info would appear, with the Follow button, Live Channels, Videos, etc only being for this one specific game. Those are the IGDB ID #s.
This way all existing pretty URLs will remain working, but you can dial down into the correct specific game you want to stream or watch or subscribe to.
As it stands when Ixion releases tomorrow, streamers will be forced into the category for a typing game from 1980 that happened to have the same name.
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jRoy7 commented
How can this still be broken after 18 months? Twitch is primarily a video game streaming platform. Not being able to choose the correct game you are streaming or want to follow via the Categories list should be a priority fix.
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Mello42 commented
Is there any other way to reach out to the team at Twitch about this?
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FakeHair commented
Trying to watch Levelhead but a game/art piece that requires a physical controller took priority over it? Fix this category please! Not sure why that other game would ever be on this site anyways.
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Mello42 commented
I'm the developer of the recently released horror game Saturnalia. Opening a ticket because there's another game with the same title (from 2017) on IGDB and the two games are getting merged together on the Twitch side of things, resulting in the older game being shown (cover / description) on streams for our game.
Is there a way to separate the two and get people playing our game to the correct category?