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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The ads are going to be personalized, which at this point seems to be standard practice and necessary for good revenue. This means that, based on other websites you visit which also serve ads, the ad company creates an anonymous profile of your interests, and tries to show you ads you're more likely to be interested in. This is also called "tracking" of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.
Nope. Screw off.
"tracking" of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.
No, it makes it sound like exactly what it is.
Anonymous, but we can use it to identify everything about you.
Best case: he has no idea what he's talking about. Worst case: he has and still writes that.
Yeah, if he said "tracking is bad but because of the market dominance I have no choice" or whatever I could understand his position. But fuck that.
Google stopped pretending the profiles are anonymous a while ago.
Oh no, I guess I'll just have to continue using ublock
Just use an ad blocker? I've used that wiki loads and honestly can't blame the guy for wanting to try and make a bit of money for his and other people's time and effort.
That said maybe patreon or something would have been a better idea.
I can.
He mentions in the link that everything everyone added was explicitly licensed to not be commercial.
Sure, but hosting the wiki itself has a cost.
Not a huge one.
But more importantly, he thinks installing open source updates on a community project with community data constitutes a full time job. His guess is that it will generate "significantly higher" than 15k per month and he wants a big chunk of that.
Wouldn’t pay as much.
It sounds insane to me when he says maintaining a wiki for a video game, is a full-time job…
Maintaining high quality content is harder than it sounds, especially for a topic as expansive as BG3.
It's a wiki. With literally over 100 people who have done a large number of edits. He's not doing anywhere near all the work of documenting the game.
Curating a wiki is not as easy as you think. If anyone can edit the content, you have to be willing to open your site to all kinds of low-quality, off-topic, or counter factual edits. Reviewing the work of hundreds of users to maintain a consistent style and tone can absolutely be a full-time job.
I don’t know if it’s the case here, of course. But there’s a whole lot of “curating isn’t REAL work” shaming going on in this thread.
It's not anything in the neighborhood of a full time job. He absolutely does not deserve to make a living on it.
And when those 100+ users contributed explicitly under a license dictating it not be for commercial use, he doesn't deserve to earn a penny more than his expenses.
I strongly agree with the licensing issue. Noncommercial means noncommercial.