# Restoring organization reviews, and decommissioning the game developer chat badge **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [October 18, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/restoring-organization-reviews-and-decommissioning-the-game-developer-chat-badge/61473 "2024-10-18T21:23:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![jbulava](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/jbulava/32/6777_2.png) [@jbulava](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/jbulava)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/restoring-organization-reviews-and-decommissioning-the-game-developer-chat-badge/61473/1 "2024-10-18T21:23:27Z")
Two years ago, we introduced the [game developer chat badge](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/introducing-the-game-developer-global-chat-badge/40033) to provide a unique way for game developers to be more visible and verifiable in chat. While this feature has been beneficial for some developers to identify themselves on Twitch, we have made the difficult decision to decommission this chat badge to restore our Developer Organization review process. ## How is the chat badge related to Developer Organizations? [Developer Organizations](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/companies/) allow multiple Twitch accounts to collectively manage game categories, Extensions, Drops campaigns, and more including the visibility of the game developer chat badge. The increased volume of organization requests as a result of the chat badge, both legitimate and illegitimate, contributed to a noticeable delay in our reviews and an increasingly difficult-to-manage queue. To restore organization requests, the Game Developer chat badge will be decommissioned and the current organization request queue will be cleared. ## What’s changing? On or soon after **October 21, 2024** , the game developer chat badge will no longer be visible on Twitch and the toggle in the developer console will be disabled. Developer Organization reviews will resume in November according to the details below. ## Do I need to take action? - Twitch accounts with an enabled game developer chat badge will automatically have it removed and no action is required. - Developers who have submitted a Developer Organization request _ **that included** _ a game ownership claim prior to November 1, 2024 will have their review completed before ~~December 1, 2024~~ December 20, 2024. An email will be sent upon completion. - Developers who have submitted a Developer Organization request _ **that did not include** _ a game ownership claim prior to November 1, 2024 will receive an email that the request was denied to reestablish our review process. Developers who receive this email are encouraged to resubmit if they intend to use Developer Organizations for features other than the game developer chat badge. ## Would the game developer chat badge ever be reconsidered? The current implementation of the chat badge has challenges to overcome before it could be reintroduced. A global chat badge was straightforward to release, but a contextual identifier that shows only when a streamer is playing your game would be best. There are no plans to consider this functionality at this time, but it may be re-evaluated in the future given the potential to facilitate communication between developers and the creators who love playing their games. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/restoring-organization-reviews-and-decommissioning-the-game-developer-chat-badge/61473)._