Restore removed game category that was still in use (Unreal Tournament)
Hello,
It seems like the game category „Unreal Tournament“ was removed since it can't be found anymore. I am not sure if this was by accident or based on a conscious decision after the development of Unreal Tournament 4 was stopped by Epic last year.
However, the category „Unreal Tournament“ is still needed. It is in daily use by the Unreal Tournament community that is maintaining and still actively playing as well as streaming the original game from 1999 (usually referred to as “UT” or “UT99”). Besides that, Unreal Tournament 4 (“UT4”) is also still maintained by the community as well as played and streamed.
Therefore, it seems inappropriate to remove the game category „Unreal Tournament“. On the contrary, it needs to remains available. If not, there’s no way for us to obey to the Community Guidelines that mandate a proper category selection.
Tank you.
NOTE: I opened a ticket about this issue that was handled with a generic reply which was besides all points raised. After messaging back, I was met with silence. Obviously the AI has decided not to talk to me anymore. This process is tedious and needs improvement.
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YahiroPT commented
We need this game category. Still lots of people play and stream UT.
Please re-add it. Thanks -
dxeh commented
We need this game tag back.. as this game is almost Ancient by now, but is still very much active. We highly rely on twitch to increase our communities. We stream many events and competitions still occurring on a regular basis. It helped us grow since the covid pandamic days!
Please bring back the tag!
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StormyStrife commented
I had just streamed Unreal Tournament yesterday, it doesn't make sense to have removed the category as the status of a game shouldn't make a difference if it's technically playable.
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soupyEU commented
Previously, we had the 'Unreal Tournament' category which both housed communities for Unreal Tournament 1999 and Unreal Tournament 4 (2014).
Recently, the Unreal Tournament (2014) game has been cancelled on IGDB, which has caused the Unreal Tournament category, along with the hundreds of thousands of followers to disappear from Twitch.
I've spoken with IGDB and at least the 1999 version of the game should be ingested by Twitch, but is not.
This means that now the Unreal Tournament 1999 community, as well as the Unreal Tournament 4 community, no longer has a place to stream on Twitch, and we have lost all of the followers of the game.
We are requesting that you please re-add the Unreal Tournament category to Twitch, along with all the followers. In worst case, Unreal Tournament 1999 should be added in as that game is still active, and is not cancelled.
Could you please ingest one of the following:
https://www.igdb.com/games/unreal-tournament
https://www.igdb.com/games/unreal-tournament-game-of-the-year-editionThanks,
Unreal Tournament Communities