>game has two wikis
>game only has a fandom wiki
>>743313187the fandom one is always shit
>reditbob
>game has no wiki>the information I need is in a fucking IGN article>adblocker starts maxing out my CPU just loading their web page
What is it about indonesians who make for the worst wiki editors?
>>743313395most do when they get big enough
Custom Wiki> Miraheze>adslop wikis like wikigg, fandom>Fextra embeded streams and half baked info(only good thing on these sites are the fucking comments)
>Twins characters share a wiki page
>>743313452This nigga knows
>>743313452>game has a mediawiki page
>>743313395The guarantee of an online forum (in the modern sense, which a wiki inherently belongs to because of the talk pages) being legally treated as a forum (in the classical sense) no longer exists. Multiple world governments can and will try to hold you accountable for the posts your users make. If you made a vidya and know the fanbase will construct an unofficial one without you, why would you open yourself up to a role in the inevitable grooming lawsuit years down the road? It's just foolish unless your company has the money and infrastructure in place to handle full time moderation on that scale.
>>743313187>the fandom one is abandoned and everyone uses the other onethe good ending
>>743313187>game has 3 wikisdark souls has fandom, wikidot, fextralife
>>743313452wikidot was the most based one before cucking out to the war
>>743313187Pretty bad.>>743313298Even worse.
>one of them is a dogshit unfinished fextralife wiki>another is a competent wiki buried under the dogshit fextralife wiki in google
>>743313187>One wiki is objectively better with more cobmntent and much better site navigation.>but people act like it's been fabricated by the antichrist and get mad if you lmgive a link to it.I don't get it.
>game has 0 wikis>nor a wikipedia page>0 faqs on gamefaqs>no ign guide>no youtube walkthroughs>the only result you can find at all on google is a single resetera threadbeing a fan of obscure japanese pc-88 games no one's ever heard of is a truly cursed experience
Real patricians don't need wikis. We use TVTropes + GameFAQs.
>obscure game title is one word>that one word is also used in multiple bigger series making it impossible to find anything about [GAME]
>>743314695I cant remember which exact wiki it was maybe the icarly one but it was full of literal fan fiction that spanned hundreds maybe thousands of pages
>>743314695>wiki has a dedicated shipping section
>game has a fandom wiki and a non fandom wiki>The fandom wiki has more info
>>743313187>The Unofficial Skyrim Patch fixes this bug
>>743313510>Twin characters have a separate wiki page>the content is exactly copypasted
Indie Wiki Buddy was one of the best extensions I got to be rid of .fandom cancer.
>japanese game's english wiki has accurate dialogue translations done by fluent JSLs who have been doing this for decades>out of nowhere it's hijacked by ESL 20-somethings who quietly replace the translations with inaccurate google translate localizations full of dialogue quirks that don't exist in the original
>>743314550>TVTropesgenuinely kill yourself
>Game has nice independent Wiki>Gets absorbed by a corpo who was then absorbed by FandomI haven't played FEH in years and I'm still upset
>>743314174>the fandom one is not only abandoned but vandalized and full of fake and intentionally misleading information that search AIs now pick up and repeat as realan even better ending
>>743315318I have seen games with better lore/guides in tvtropes than their actual wikis
>>743313187wikibuddy extention is your friend>>743313298this always fucking sucks though
threadly reminder to tack on -fextralife -fandom to every search
>>743313510>it's because they're actually a single entity
>be fan of an obscure japanese franchise>the only source for high-rez image assets of it are on an ancient wikia site>and they're all in .webp
>>743315006I think the extensive bulbapedia shipping pages were the first time I was exposed to shipping in any major capacity. At the time I knew about Pomfret and his petty rivalry with Serebii (Joe wasn't insane yet) and his "age is just a number" beliefs coupled with his alleged mod forum where the underage mods posted nudes so I've continued to have a negative view of all things shipping to this day. Thanks Pomf
>>743314534i'm surprised they actually talk about anything besides bitching about current games
>>743316030>everything is in fucking webp format>Looking for an official render>Wikia and Instagram eating up the top results>>743315006I have not thought about the Seddie Webm in years
>wiki starts raping faster than Gaben
>90% of the games discussion is done on the official Discord>Join the Discord>Get permabanned because I posted a meme in the meme channel
>game has a tranny wiki>game has a chud wiki
>>743317792always gonna choose a chud son over a tranny daughter
>game has no wiki>only thing close is a steam guide>it's full of shitty jokes and retarded low-quality gifs
>the games you like will never have a good wiki like OSRS does
>google my name out of curiosity >there is an entire wiki detailing my past life and future events
>>743313510Jeanette and Therese
>game has gamefaqs guide>first thing you see is a painstakingly done ascii version of the game's logo
>>743313187>play defunct mmo from the 00s on a private server>look up old quest information>i can still find forum posts from 20 years ago talking about it >realize in a modern day mmo, all this information would be in a discord server instead rendering nobody able to simply search for it >this is how every single game is now
>>743314534>not using the 4chan archives
>>743316370>look for transparent image of character>only results are on pintrestjust kill me
>>743313395The TF2 wiki is unique in that the devs themselves saw a successful resource and reached out to provide ad free hosting for it on their domain.Very few devs have that kind of care. And unfortunately nowadays most of the equivalent kind of effort is tucked away in an official discord instead.
>>743318492SOUL
>>743313187>its fextra and fandom
>>743315006
>>743313187>it's a wiki.gg one
I miss gamefaqs
>the details of the game's mechanics aren't explained at all>there's no wiki>everyone online also has no fucking idea whats going on
>>743319892It still exists.
>>743314174>>743315597name 1(one) wiki
>>743320263deeprock's wiki
>>743313187>they both are the most bloated laggy dogshit imaginable
>>743320263the warframe wiki's like that i believe
>>743318254you can solve this by using information overload
>>743313395Developers who care do and even host them. But it also helps when you make a game that is dense as fuck. https://cyberknightswiki.tresebrothers.com/
>>743318254Truman, get off the internet, NOW!
>>743320263For a long time there was the one that makes fanfiction combining Taimanin Asagi and Toho kaiju movies. Dude pumped out so many fake articles every day it launched the SEO into the stratosphere.
>>743313452>wikigg, fandom?wikigg is maybe 5% worse than miraheze but still several orders of magnitude above fandom.Your order is correct but saying these are equal when they're the biggest power gap of the lot is insane.
wikis were a mistake. why do you need one? metagaming?just play the damn game and figure shit out yourselfif you need help then have a discussion with other players
>>743313452what about compendium built into their discord?
>wiki sites like fandom typically have dogshit layouts or a dearth of useful information>still show up near the top of search results due to SEO garbageabsolutely cancerous development for the internet
>>743313187>game has three wikis>each wiki has half the items, npcs, enemies etc. named differently from the others>one wiki names an enemy "burning stake witch" which sounds like something you'd order from Quiznos>it's not the fandom.com wiki
my GOAT wiki is guild wars. it just works.
>>743313187>game has in game wiki
>>743321184>Hey bros can you tell me every pokemon that has iron fist and where to find its relevant TMs in this one gameNo one will know this offhand
>>743318492Unfathomably based when people do it.
>>743321808>game has in game social media>it's actually more social than real social media
>>743321915Most reddit thing I've ever read
>game has 1 guy still active in the gamefaqs forum that has been answering people's questions for years
>>743321184Yo dude how do I craft X? oh right just craft A, B, C, D, AA, AD and M, then mix them on, R with T and S, but mind you AA and AD are only from this and that dungeon.Used to think like you but playing Terraria, Starbound, and any "wiki" game seriously makes you rethink that
>>743322117Based autist
>>743313452there's actually several hundred pounds of elephant shit in the power gap between whatever and fextra
>>743320874it's mostly due to these pages having a stupid amount of shit that loads in every time you navigate to another page. open the network tab on even a small page like this one and you'll see what i mean:https://stardewvalley.fandom.com/wiki/Crops
>>743318492
>>743322117>game has one guy still active in the gameFAQs forum>spamming messages about the spawn time and current HP of a global raid boss>every thread ends with accusing someone of cheating using an in-game tactic the devs support but the autismposter considers an exploit >because he wants to monetize his predictions of exactly when the raid boss will die and anyone using the "exploit" throws all his calculations off>servers shut down five years ago>autismposter is still creating daily threads where he rants impotently about the cheaterspoor guy will never not be mad, I honestly don't know how he hasn't died of apoplexy yet
>>743322842Talking about someone specific?
>>743313395>game has official wiki>doesn't show up in google searches
>>743315318>genuinelyyou first
>game just has a ripped databaseA lot better than wikis imho
>>743318254>it even has step-by-step instructions for builds that shit all over yours
>>743313358>Chan pants
>>743320263Path of Exile devs ended up hosting their own.>>743320775>Digital Extremes officially relaunched the WARFRAME Wiki on their own subdomain, wiki.warframe.com, on January 31, 2025.>5+ years of dealing with fandom dogshit lolI hope all of DE is raped by migrants.
>>743320263Runescape
>>743313187>Any documentation is on the discord>Nothing is properly sorted>You have to search manually through thousands of messages>You get ban the moment you ask something>Can't search the messages now that you're banTotal death.
The runescape wikis are the absolute epitome of the perfect gaming wiki. Every situation, item and question answered right there. Even the quest guides have a short version and a "lore" version which is coolFighting game wikis can be useful for hitbox viewing, frame data and general overall of a character, but the combos are often very outdated. You can find better bnbs on youtube recent videosEvery other wiki is garbage like fandom or garbage but necessary like warframe's
which one's the one with embedded streams? that's the first one Google always points to when searching something and it sucks
>>743313187there's a great browser extension that hides fextraslop wikis and shows up the good oneshttps://getindie.wiki/
>>743313510>one twin gets a fandom article>the other twin gets a fextralife article>they're mutual
>>743325558probably fextralifefun fact, twitch a while back announced an update to crack down on embedded stream viewers. fextralife, who always had 10k+ "viewers" when the chat had 2 people in it, immediately stopped streaming as soon as this news was shown and never streamed again. Actual low life fucking faggot losers who knew they would be exposed
>/v/ has a wiki
>>743313187>>743313330>wiki starts on fandom >ok this company sucks, moving elsewhere>fandom refuses to take down the old wiki and you may not put up a "we moved" message>biased search engines put fandom first, which only gets more and more outdated
>>743321915pity the fake anti-social media is wrapped in something so gay as spiderman
>>743327115>twitch deciding to not crack down on any problems on their site because it would reveal 90% of it is fake views/comments or coming to watch titties
>>743318951>tucked away in an official discord instead.a discord channel in which you can't complain or be critical without some faggot mod giving you a warning or outright banning your assI wish it weren't this gay but here we are.
>>743327883>official discord bans you for critical comment because it might deter purchases of the productand yet retards, even in this very thread, will defend official wikis. when did the trend of online discussion of games being hosted on platforms run or at least owned by the maker of the game themselves start?
>>743328008>retards, even in this very thread, will defend official wikisa wiki is not a place of discussion, it's somewhere to get information that would not be readily available in-game. official wikis are usually shit because devs don't always know their game as well as the community
>>743313298Every time I accidentally click the fandom wiki, I have a physical revulsion reflex.
>>743315047MODS!!!!!!!!!!
>Game has no characters with meme pronouns>Wiki still has a pronoun box for all the characters
>>743313187wikis are for the spirtless
>>743317320>90% of the games discussion is done on the official DiscordGod I hate this shit, just use a generic discussion forum.If your shit's on steam, just use the BUILT IN discussion forum.
>>743318492That's how you know you're in the right place.
>>743318605>this is how every single game is nowI don't entirely mind it, not because I like having to join discord servers to find shit, but because I actually have to figure shit out.
What's so bad about fandom wikis? I'm just asking because I rarely use wikis at all.
>>743313298>early life
>>743334086They get forcefully loaded with ads for other irrelevant wikis, force certain formatting, come with a ton of rules like "you can't close the wiki down and move away, nor can you just say you're moving to another platform", have ended up vandalized by the people running fandom for the sake of advertising, and run heavy SEO while paying for first results which means it's the first link you usually see.
>game only has a fextralife wiki
>>743315597Based
>>743320263Terraria
>>743333859>just use a generic discussion forum.Most of them are dead because people for some reason decided discord, reddit, facebook and twitter are better. I guess Gamefaqs is still somewhat active, but that's about it.
>>743334086A ton of ads and videos. Opening more than one or two pages will slow your computer down if you have less than 16gb of RAM, discouraging the exploration wikis are good for.I installed noscript specifically because of how bad fandom is. I can't think of any other site as bad.
>>743334086Fandom has the worst formatting of anything ever loaded with extra filler crap the average person will not bother to block. Plus a bunch of bullshit like how you can't even read comments normally for an article without logging in
>>743334283>>743334996>>743335084Okay, that does sound pretty shitty.
>game has two wikis>they're both custom wikis
>>743338332>game has two wikis>they're both on fandom>it's not even like one is an older version/archive or that it's worse than the other one, there's just two
>>743316165ffmpeg -i image.webp image.png
>game has two wikis>one is a better source for technical information, the other is better for lore
>there's two wikis>one is full of MTL from japanese even though official TLs exist, so it's impossible to search anything if you're playing the official TL'd game>the other one hasn't been updated since 2006 and is a precious time capsule of that era
