Sony has partnered with Wikia to launch the first Wikia official community for Planetside 2. Sony and Wikia will work with players to help them along in games and provide a way to directly communicate with the publisher.
"Teaming up with Wikia was the natural next step for us in providing the necessary tools to further embrace and empower our players," said John Smedley, President, Sony Online Entertainment. "This new partnership is truly about community collaboration, and Wikia's reputation and respect for its dedicated global network of players offered the ideal platform for SOE to further support its players and the community. We are excited and looking forward to the creative and compelling ways fans will utilize this custom channel to expand community engagement outside of the game."
Sony and Wikia will actively endorse fan communities and allow them to collaborate with developers during production. "We want to work with vibrant, existing Wikia communities at the grass-roots level," said Linda Carlson, Director of Global Community Relations, Sony Online Entertainment.
"Partnering with sites such as EQ2i serves to recognize and support the efforts of thousands of dedicated fans on Wikia, be they individuals, guilds or fan-sites. It's about time, and we can hardly wait to get started!" From my internet experience, this could either go really well or fail in a terrible and hilarious way.
There are some really amazing unofficial wikis out there, the one for The Elder Scrolls comes to mind, but it seems like they operate on the unfettered passion of the fans of the game. The Elder Scrolls games tend to be good, but also very complicated and littered with secrets and Easter eggs that player could only find if they regularly checked the wiki. It is unclear to me if Planetside 2 warrants that sort of dedicated wiki, but I supposed we’ll see how this pans out.
