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IGDB denied the request and posted the comment below (screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/RBr5Hmc)
"IGDB Admin says:
Hi! Twitch sent you in the wrong direction, IGDB only tracks video games. We have also been trying to work with Twitch to have them manually create a category for this, please be patient. Thanks!"So hopefully they get it sorted out.
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Twitch Support said to create a new IGDB game for the category...
I've created this request: https://www.igdb.com/games/pinball--19/changes/2326848
But... again, the current category at https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/pinball-2 just needs an image/description. No real need for a new game/url with /pinball--19 in it.
So maybe approve the request with just the /pinball URL :) Thanks!
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This started with a request to change the category image and description. (I made one and a few other streamers in the Pinball streaming community did as well.)
Twitch support said to do so on IGDB. But /pinball wasn't linked to IGDB. IGDB said the /pinball url on Twitch was linked to the Wii U game. (But the Wii U game was actually not at that URL, it was at /pinball--2 with two dashes).
They denied the changes. Twitch then deleted /pinball url category on Twitch and created another at /pinball-2 (one dash). That is the current one that we use. In the process they reassigned a bunch of old pinball VOD's to the IGDB game Play It Pinball at the url ending in /play-it-pinball (yellow icon with pinball). All of my old videos were assigned to this one for a day and some streamers still are. My VOD's and most others were fixed and linked to the new /pinball-2 category (generic icon/no description)
I sent support another email and they said to post a User Voice post and another IGDB request. IGDB came back and said Twitch was wrong and that they couldn't do anything because "pinball isn't a game". So I sent that reply back to Twitch Support... and that's where we are at. It's messed up because the current Pinball category at /pinball-2 doesn't even have the "pinball" tag assigned to it.
On mobile it's a bit more weird because the Pinball category that pops up first is the one linked to Play it Pinball, so you see streamers streaming in that category now instead of the actual Pinball one. Or some just stream in IRL or Just Chatting with the pinball tag on their stream, but if you go to the Pinball category you don't see their streams because Pinball doesn't have the pinball tag assigned to it.
It's all lame and an easy fix. Reassign Pinball back to the /pinball URL, add the Pinball tag and add an image and description (I don't care if it's the image or description I linked... just something the community is cool. I love the Twitch pinball community and it's all fragmented at the moment.