Quote Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur View Post
The decentralization is likely due to the sudden death of one of the big info sites towards the end of HW(?). At that time there existed a site (XIVdatabase?) with a very large and easily searchable database of gear, FATEs, instances, quests, mobs and NPCs than most of the western playerbase used heavily. One day the owner of the site stopped updating it, sold it to someone else and the new owner quickly shut the site down. Since that happened the information support portion of the playerbase has been a bit wary of going all in one basket.
Yep I remember that. There's been other attempts since then like the Moogle Post, which imploded because one of the creators had some serious allegations levied against them, but almost all of them have gone up in flames in some way or another. Given how it's happened more than once and just how many people are content running individual sites for specific niches I doubt we'll ever get an all-in-one website for this game. Not without significant efforts.