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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Baldur’s Gate 3 fans have created their own ad-free wiki (www.polygon.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uesp.net is another one. It's actually quite a bit older than fandom but I'm still going to count it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UESP is ancient in game wiki terms, even just internet terms, wasn't it made shortly after the release of daggerfall?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Arena was 94, uesp was 95, and daggerfall was 96. It was originally fansite that followed development news for daggerfall.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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!