There is a variety of arcade games on IGDB, but there is no differentiation between the different arcade hardware. For example, Chunithm and maimai Finale are both on IGDB under the platform of simply "Arcade", despite Chunithm running on the Sega Nu 1.1 board, while maimai Finale runs on the Sega RingEdge 2.

While there are a lot of platforms that would have to be added should this change be made, I do believe that this change follows the mission of IGDB, as the website strives to be a collection of all relevant information for a game, and there are few things more relevant to a game than the platforms that it's accessible on.

It seems rather common that users want to post the release dates and other info into the original releases of titles, such as Ports, Bundles, Remakes and Remasters, when these points have already been documented in the respective entries.

While you will almost certainly never fully eliminate this, I feel a large portion of it has to do with people not realizing the entries exist, and often need to scroll down to areas they may not frequent as often to notice the options exist.

I would suggest possibly moving these sections for Ports, Remakes, Bundles, etc. into the same area as About, Add to (list), and Share options.
(There is the possibility this can become crowded when something includes main of these connected Game Types, but more than 5 I feel is exceptionally rare. (I also feel Add To and Share don't need such prime real estate as they currently have and could also be moved into a place like below Want/Playing/Played.)

Additional Search Keywords: Expansion, Expanded Game, Mod, DLC/Addon, Fork, Season, Standalone Expansion

Hi,
recently a super-admin had to merge two games wich actually was the same game, which just changed name and modality meantime.

In the fact I'm talking about Pagan Online (Action-RPG MMO) which became Pagan Absent Gods (Action-RPG Single Player).

While before they were registered as two different games, with two different pages, now they got merged as single page on Pagan Online's page (renaming the game), marking Pagan Absent Gods' old page as dupicate.

The consequences of the merging, anyway, are doubtful, because:

• In IGDB website: if you search both for Pagan Online or for Pagan: Absent Gods, you always find Pagan: Absent Gods only, which anyway brings you to the deprecated (marked dupilicated) page: pagan-absent-gods .
  So there's actually no way to reach pagan-online page from the search tool, containing the right info about the game.

• In Twitch website: now the Pagan: Absent Gods category disappeared.
  And so did the game boxart from my "recently broadcast categories" list (I streamed it as Pagan: Absent Gods on monday), and also I had to set Pagan Online on my past broadcast vod.
  So this also means if you play Pagan: Absent Gods on Twitch, now you'll have to set Pagan Online category... which, in my opinion, at the moment is wrong to be done, and not intuitive nor for streamer, nor for viewers.

So, in my opinon, the game and category to be deprecated and/or mark dupicated, should be the old one (Pagan Online, in this case), because new streams should have the new game's name as category, and because this wouldn't create issues while searching the game on IGDB with the new name setted.

Currently, when titles do not have an included Screenshot, the highlighted backdrop of the page displays a green background color. While I'm sure this is intentional in order to entice users to always be sure to add one, there isn't really anything that communicates this is what caused the green background. Further from an aesthetic point of view, it highly clashes with the purple "theme" of Twitch/IGDB.

As a suggestion, Twitch channels that don't include a background image will display a repeating pattern of the user's name. Or, an icon to signify a broken image to tell users to add a screenshot would also be helpful.

As some reviews age, some sites can go out of business or just shut down. However there doesn't appear to be an automatic way the database removes or reports broken links or updates scores as they go away. Additionally, some of these will push scores averages down if they continue to inaccurately are placed as Review Scores, yet hold broken links.

Steel Battalion
https://www.igdb.com/games/steel-battalion
- 404 Review Links (Gaming Trend)

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
https://www.igdb.com/games/fatal-frame-ii-crimson-butterfly
- Inaccurate count of 3 reviews on Game Page, but 2 reviews listed on Critic Reviews breakdown page.

Disgaea 2 Dark Hero Days
https://www.igdb.com/games/disgaea-2-dark-hero-days
- Worth Playing: Review scores 8/10, but is listed as an Unscored Review
- 404 Links for Gaming Trends, Digital Chumps.

Jak & Daxter Collection
https://www.igdb.com/games/jak-and-daxter-collection
- 4 active links rate at 85-75, but 2 broken links rate 70-66. (GameZone/Digital Chumps)