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1. 3D covers

   3D view of game covers, being able to view the front, sides and back sides.
   Could be nice when having many regions and scanned images of all sides of a box art.

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   Long-Term Consideration  ·  AdminIGDB (Admin, Twitch) responded

   Hey! For now we’re focusing on a single cover standard. Which we’ll then expand to other regions to be able to cover more types of users for this standard.

   Once we have good coverage of those we may start looking at additional aspects such as sides, back of cover etc..

   Thanks!

2. Actually be a database of all games

   Currently the IGDB is only a database of video games but is the canonical source of twitch's game list. It should include all games if it wants to be called the IGDB and not IVGDB. This includes board and card games that do not have a digital version. This choice on the data front results in non-digital games all having to be lumped into the broad board game category and having to push for individual inclusion. Either make all video games jump through the same hoops or make IGDB live up to its name.

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   Long-Term Consideration  ·  AdminIGDB (Admin, Twitch) responded

   Hey there!

   Understandable about the naming expectation, but i can confirm that at this point in time, and the near future at least IGDB is strictly focused on video games.

   Few reasons for this:
   - Coming up with video game taxonomy to set industry standard is already a monument of a task, and it makes sense for us to narrow down this goal by excluding board games, card games and other physical types.
   - Twitch does have some very unique use cases beyond video games, which is why there is a distinction in being the database that powers Twitch’s gaming need, rather than being Twitch’s database itself. Our data being used by many more services than Twitch alone, we remain focused right now on video games.

   It’s totally possible that in a long term vision we start tackling taxonomy of non-video game products, but likely not in the near future while we concentrate our efforts.

   Thanks!

   Hey there!

   Understandable about the naming expectation, but i can confirm that at this point in time, and the near future at least IGDB is strictly focused on video games.

   Few reasons for this:
   - Coming up with video game taxonomy to set industry standard is already a monument of a task, and it makes sense for us to narrow down this goal by excluding board games, card games and other physical types.
   - Twitch does have some very unique use cases beyond video games, which is why there is a distinction in being the database that powers Twitch’s gaming need, rather than being Twitch’s database itself. Our data being used by many more services than Twitch alone, we remain focused right now on video games.

   It’s totally possible that in a long term vision we start tackling taxonomy of non-video game products, but likely not in the near future… more