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Faalagorn (talkcontribs)

Hey! I noticed your recent edit at the Back to the Future: The Game and that you removed the episodes for it from the DLC tab. However, it is currently the same for other games, including Sam & Max Save the World (which originally had it that way), Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Tales of Monkey Island, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse and Hector: Badge of Carnage!. All the episodes for these games appear as multiple game entries in Steam, but there's a single article for each of them on PCGW. Other Telltale games do not use this mechanic, and each episode is a part of the game. I tried to keep the same format for all [[Company:Telltale Games ]] titles, so whatever you decide, can you please keep the partity for all these titles? Thanks!

Blackbird (talkcontribs)

Sure. I don't know who added it, but these episodes aren't treated as DLCs at all (SteamDB shows so too).

Faalagorn (talkcontribs)

I only own the games on Steam, so I'm not sure how GOG or retail versions treat them, but yeah all these titles consisted of each episode as a different game. I guess the original author wanted to indicate that in the first Sam & Max game – I might have removed it from the first game instead since eventually it turned out it was the only one structured as such, but since it was the one I started with I added the info to others.

"Upload a new version of this file" does not work properly

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Jigen123 (talkcontribs)

Hi man, i'm experiencing an issue on this site lately. When i upload a new version of game cover, the new version of the picture does not show up in the game's page. And yes, i have tried the usual CTRL+F5 trick already. Thank you.

Blackbird (talkcontribs)
Jigen123 (talkcontribs)

Oh, i see. Thank you.

Store order in availability table

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Vetle (talkcontribs)
Blackbird (talkcontribs)

Because Garrett renamed the Windows Store name to Microsoft Store which causes them to be improperly sorted. Garrbot already corrected few cases, but not all.

User that keeps reverting my edits even if i proved him wrong

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Jigen123 (talkcontribs)
Blackbird (talkcontribs)

Add reference to the key point if you can. I'll look into it later.

Jigen123 (talkcontribs)

I put all the necessary infos in the discussion i opened.

Jigen123 (talkcontribs)

You could have warned me about my error in a more kind and appropriate way (like, for example, by opening a thread on my profile). Besides, "second warning"? Never got a notification or a "warning" about that.

Outlaws availability

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Osprey (talkcontribs)

Hi, Blackbird.

I noticed that you undid my "Adds historical missions..." note to the Notes field of the expansion. That's fine, if that's not what the Notes field is for, but I'd like to understand what the field is for, so that I either don't add to it again or add the right thing. I guess that it's not for describing what's included in the expansion/DLC. Is it supposed to be only for notes that pertain to availability (like "included with GOG release, but not with Steam," for example)?

Thanks.

Blackbird (talkcontribs)

I removed it because you added it into a wrong field (field meant for game keys). If you check the old revision you'll see the problem. If you want to add it to DLC notes, feel free to do so (although this kind of thing is better suited for wikipedia). I was just lazy.

Osprey (talkcontribs)

Oh, I didn't even notice that I added it to the wrong field. Usually, I'm quite diligent and check everything in preview before I save the page. I guess that it's because I was adding half a dozen things to the page at once and the expansion/DLC section was collapsed, so I overlooked it on my final check. Thanks for the correction and the explanation.

Pac-Man: Adventures in Time thanks

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WolfBoy980 (talkcontribs)

Thank you for editing the page! It was my first page creation for the wiki, so I expected it to need rough patching from a more experienced user. Are there any suggestions I can get from you for future edits and page creations? I've done my best to follow the Sample Article and Editing Guide.

Blackbird (talkcontribs)

Welcome to PCGW! For the first page it was rather decent. I'd suggest

  • Don't remove any part of the default templates even if it makes no sense. Imagine if the game gets released on GOG/Steam etc. later. It'll be annoying for editors to re-add the GOG/Steam stuff.
  • Don't put too many key points. Only focus on important technical stuff. The ones left are fine-ish imo.
  • Game cover name should always be Game name cover.jpg/png. : is not allowed in filenames so you need to omit it.
    • If you want to do this easily just put the image name first, hit the Show Preview button, middle-click on the red link and upload it there. Then save the edit.
  • Network play modes only accept Versus (Player vs Player) and Co-op (Player+Player against AI) since that way PCGW can scrape the info into a list. If you need to specify actual modes then use the notes line below.
  • Don't fill in false in the API table for stuff that the game just can't have due to its age. If you're not sure just hit the Show Preview button and if the X doesn't appear it means only true value is needed.
  • For System requirements section you need to check the Editing Guide's part of it since PCGW tries to keep it consistent and cuts lot of fluff that isn't needed.

Glad to be of service and happy editing :)

WolfBoy980 (talkcontribs)

This is all incredibly helpful! It was hard to traverse the thick editing guide, so your guidance simplifies that prospect. For clarification...

  • I see entries left blank don't show up. I didn't know the API was selective enough on sections to omit when they're left blank, it was my attempt to keep the visuals of the guide clean. I'll note this for the future.
  • Great advice. I'll keep things simpler in the future.
* I immediately regretted the file name when I was introduced to the page showcasing uploaded files after uploading my file, it will be noted for the future. (How on earth did you manage to tab the bullet point in your reply? I wanted to copy the format for your answers so that it would be easy to see which question I was answering. I've been struggling with it, because pressing tab on my keyboard makes me select elements outside the typing window instead.)
  • That's really helpful. I thought I would have to track down the upload menu in the editing guide every time. It was just now while typing this that I realized there was a link to the page in the sidebar.
  • So that's what those weird marks () were representing, missing information! No wonder it was impossible to remove! That leads to a question though, what do I do if the multiplayer supports various modes? For example, a game has a horde mode and a versus mode in online play. Do I choose Versus or Co-Op in this case?
  • Noted, i'll keep an eye on it for the future.
  • "Any requirements beyond "Recommended" are considered overkill at the time of launch. That being said, these requirements can be added to the section as an information ({{{ii}}}) footnote below the tables." While you didn't do this necessarily, i'll take it that I should just leave the section blank for games not mentioning recommended specifications.

Again, thanks for the help! My reply serves as a self reflection for memory and an acknowledgment of your detailed answer!

Rea987 (talkcontribs)

Enabling multithreading is essential to get higher frame rate on Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Shuldn't "Enable multithreading" remain in "High frame rate" section?

Blackbird (talkcontribs)

I get what you mean, but no. You can't add custom fixboxes to default sections ie. anything not in the standard tables. In this case it could even be in Essential improvements if it's really really needed.

Your "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided" edit

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Notex (talkcontribs)

The command line argument "-nonixxes" you provided to skip intro videos does not seem to work for me.

Blackbird (talkcontribs)

I didn't provide it. I only changed the formatting. This guy added it

MEGA theguy (talkcontribs)

Thank you for your help in editing the page.