Corrections and recommendations

What this page is for

This directory holds 813 sources across ten markets, all verified by a weary human. That is the best thing about it and it's also the obvious failure mode. Sites move. Outlets fold. A description that was accurate in July stops being accurate without … lord, why did I make this thing.

So anyway corrections are welcomed and encouraged, and so are recommendations. Tell me sources that shouldn't be here, outlets or people or a community that is missing, a link that has stopped resolving. All of that. Arguments count too. If you think a whole section is framed wrongly, say so and say why.

What to send me

Useful corrections are specific and checkable. 'The Korea data is off' is a feeling. 'This row links to a 2019 report and the association has published three since, here is the index page' is a correction, and it takes about a minute to act on.

You should know what's not a correction, because that'll save you or your robot the writing. Nothing here is ranked or scored, so there is no position to be moved up and no top of a list to be added to. Nothing here reports or analyses, so a disagreement with a figure belongs with the outlet that published it rather than with me. And a paid source is not an error: where a vendor holds the better numbers, the row names it and links to it deliberately. Method sets out both of those boundaries at length and is worth a look before you write.

How to lay out the email

Subject line

The market or the section, then the word correction or recommendation. 'Japan, correction' tells me what I am opening and roughly what it is going to cost to deal with before I open it, which is a small courtesy that makes a real difference to how quickly it gets looked at.

Which row

Name it as it appears on the site and say which page you found it on. There are 813 rows and several near-identical trade bodies among them, so 'the ESA one' has more than one candidate.

What's wrong

One sentence usually does it. The link is dead. This thingy shut down in 2024. The description says weekly and achtualllly it's monthly. Precision here is worth more than politeness, and you are welcome and encouraged to use both.

How you know

A link, a date, a screenshot, or the name of whatever supersedes it. Nothing changes on assertion alone, which is not scepticism about you, just the same standard every row on this site had to clear to get here in the first place.

A suggested fix

Optional and very welcome. If you already know the right link or the right sentence, paste it in and you have done most of the work. I will still check it, for the reason directly above, and because I'm probably procrastinating doing something else.

Who you are

Optional. Say if you would like crediting when the change goes in, and if you say nothing you will not be named. If you are connected to the source in question, mention it. That disqualifies nothing. It gets recorded the way every other stake on this site gets recorded.

Where to send it

Email

games@thisisdelightful.com

What happens next

A correction is made in the workbook first and published on the next pass, rather than patched onto the page you found it on. The spreadsheet, the download files and the pages you are reading are one artefact compiled from one source, and fixing the page alone would leave the CSV still cheerfully serving the old answer to everyone who had downloaded it. So the files and the pages change together, or they do not change.

Which means there is no turnaround to promise you! Updates go out in passes as the research proceeds, which is to say once every sometimes. A dead link and a debatable description are not the same kind of urgent, though, so if the thing you found is broken rather than merely stale, put that in the subject line and it will be treated accordingly. Either way, thank you. You're the best.