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Latest comment: 9 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Release dates are provided for primarily English-speaking regions, especially if the game is produced in those regions, but when there are multiple releases from different regions and the first release is actually in a non-English country, should the collapsible list's |title parameter be that first non-English release or not? I'm referring to this recent edit, Japanese release is a couple of days before the release in English-speaking regions. ภץאคгöร17:25, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments1 person in discussion
Because the focus of these guidelines is about video games, it should be more clear when saying "Settings" that this is about the locations or places that events within the game are occur. I know when I first read "Settings", my initial impression had been that this is talking about the "Gameplay Settings" such as "Aim Assist", "First Person" vs "Third Person" perspective, "Camera Lock Mode". But these are very different than saying if I was in the case of League of Legends, trying to write about the locations within the game such as, "Summoner's Rift", "The Howling Abyss", or locations within the game's lore that while not directly observed, are understood in what the values and culture of these locations consists of. "Demacia" is known for there prejudice against mages, "Noxus" is known for their culture of being able to rise up through one's strength. Hail~Fire18:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I am sharing this because I don't have a lot of experience as a wikipedia editor so I don't want to assume that what I am saying I see is sufficient reason for me to go and change a page about how pages should be written. I have been an editor for the [1]League of Legends Fandom Wiki]] for the last 4 years, but I don't want to assume that things are the same here as they are for the League of Legends Wiki. Hail~Fire18:42, 2 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 6 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Can I put forward that the use of past tense in lead sections for discontinued yet publicly-released games be revisited as a concept. While I can understand the use of past tense for projects that never released, given we can't actually say they were ever a complete piece of media, the continued use of past tense stands out in contrast to the view taken in both the general manual of style (MOS:TENSE) and those used on comparative media ones too (MOS:TVNOW,MOS:FILMNOW). Rambling Rambler (talk) 21:45, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
Unlike other media which is usable even after a final printing or discontuation, once released but shuttered games that rely on the online connectivity become no longer playable following the shuttering, so for all purposes, the game no longer exists in a playable form. Hence why we have used past tense for those games. — Masem (t) 23:28, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
While they may not be playable that still doesn’t remove the fact they exist though.
There are plenty of examples of lost media items that we still refer to in present tense because it exists (wiped tv episodes for instance), so it’s odd for video games to still have a MOS that conflicts with the others. Rambling Rambler (talk) 07:47, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Reply