Portal talk:Digital Games

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"Digital game" is remarkably uncommon wording, and there doesn't even exist a Wikipedia page for such a term. I propose renaming this portal to the common term that users will expect and search for: "Video games". In fact, every digital game on PFWiki already falls under the infobox type "Video game". Changing this portal's name could possibly be accompanied by changing the names of Category:Digital games, Category:Licensed digital games, and Category:Digital games by year. --Descriptivist (talk) 13:33, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

"Digital game" was an intentional choice over video game because the first to warrant the wiki's attention was Pathfinder Adventures, a digital adaptation of the card game rather than a new game, and calling it a "video game" suggested otherwise. (Pathfinder Online had its own separate wiki instead of being incorporated into this one, so that conversation didn't happen then either.) It was generic enough to allow inclusion of video games but also VTTs (like 2012's Paizo Game Space) and other digital play aids (cf. 2011's iCrit and iFumble). But those things didn't take off.

It also predates Wikipedia's reclassification of digital adaptations of tabletop games as being categorized alongside video games, which IIRC happened around 2019 or 2020 with the creation of articles like Digital tabletop game and Digital collectible card game.

I don't mind it changing now that most digital games related to Pathfinder are video games. Not it for the recategorization, relinking, and portal revision work, though, have fun. -Oznogon (talk) 22:27, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

I thought I remembered another angle to this, and there was one: Paizo consistently used "digital", and particularly "digital game", to describe Pathfinder Adventures, and not "video game". 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; all used some form of "digital game", "digital version", or "digital port", and none used "video game". -Oznogon (talk) 22:44, 6 September 2024 (UTC)