I was looking through my collection, when I started to see many of my Nintendo titles now had a series of numbers in parentheses after them.
Example 1:
https://vgcollect.com/item/2163Example 2:
https://vgcollect.com/item/117965Example 3:
https://vgcollect.com/item/8167Example 4:
https://vgcollect.com/item/141215'
That's just a few... there are so many more! I understand keeping track of variants to a degree, but seriously? This seems like the sort of thing that those who wish to keep note of could do so in the "Notes" field in their collection. I don't even know if the version I have is correctly listed now because I was just assigned these, and I would have to go look through all of these games to see if what I have actually matches what is now in my collection here. But also I don't really care enough to do that. Yet now when I get a new game, I can't just have "Animal Crossing", I have to look to see "Do I have Animal Crossing (00101), or Animal Crossing (00100), or just Animal Crossing (00000)?" Why can't I just have "Animal Crossing" in my collection? Everyone who had Animal Crossing was dumped into 00101, all 1000+ of us, but surely not all of us actually have that number printed on the box that seemingly is meaningless. The other two are only in one collection each. Are they rare? Is this accurate? Does it even matter?
The database seems cluttered enough as it is, and now my collection is becoming cluttered with random numbers and letters. I know I'm probably in the minority, here, and at some point it was probably decided on by the community that this should be done, or at the very least it just doesn't bother anyone except me. I just wanted to throw this out there and say maybe this is unnecessary clutter.