Corporate-owned wikis have ads and other issues, so fans have decided to go their own way

  • JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One of the few successful fan wikis that got away from fandom has been the Path of Exile community. I don’t play the game anymore because it just got to be too much for me and demand too much time, but I really appreciate that they collectively got pissed enough at fandom that they made sure that poewiki.net took off.

    Edit: even better, the developers (Grinding Gear Games) apparently agreed to take over hosting of the wiki about a year ago so that the community members that started it didn’t have to deal with the financial burden. Definitely a good idea for them to take over hosting so there’s no concern of the owners taking a valuable resource offline.

    • HidingCat@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Successful games really should have the dev/publisher hosting the wiki. It’s better for everyone involved. I’ll always appreciate Arenanet for hosting the Guild Wars 1 and 2 wikis.

      • rambaroo@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        How is that better? They would stop hosting it once the game was old which leads to the same problem.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Heck, Blizzard was doing that in the D2 days, don’t know if it’s still the case, but everything was there!