Quote Originally Posted by AmyRae View Post
Well, take a look at a site like GamerEscape, formally Eorzeapedia. Back in their FFXIClopedia days, they were one of the hottest Final Fantasy communities out there. They were just known as "The Wiki."

Now they're ghost town and charges for FFXIV haven't even started yet. How are they supposed to maintain a wiki site without a community to back them up?
FFXIClopedia was also the main source of incorrect and outright false information back in the day, with it's mods and admins encouraging said activities which is outright ridiculous (WS's can be paralyzed guys).

The fact is, though, that many, many more sites related to collecting information have popped up since the start of the service, which is because FFXIClopedia doesn't have such a tight grip on the game as it did with XI. Personally, I wouldn't like to see GamerEscape be the #1 wiki site this time, considering their shady tactics before and the fact that the damn site doesn't even work for me half the time.

While one, main site has yet to emerge, there are countless more people trying to succeed in being 'the one' than before. I think this kind of competition will only make the "winner" be much better than what XIClopedia ended up to be.

And I don't think they will be going anywhere anytime soon. XIClopedia can crash and burn for all I care, if they don't have what it takes to become number one.

The only problem I see with the current trends is that information can be slightly scattered around, and actual contributors like Kaeko of BG post their findings in blogs or 3rd party forums. Nevertheless, the lack of contributors is hardly the issue here. I especially like ffxiv-db so far and I hope the best for it.