User blog comment:Mjb24v/Motivations/@comment-4783389-20121029223303

Given that ‘learning’ the game might be considered one of the main motivations for playing, why doesn’t using a wiki spoil the fun?

I think that Wiki's are a pick and choose. I wouldn't really consider using a wiki spoiling. If someone really wished to look up the information, that's their choice to either ruin their own experience or better their experience. For myself, I enjoy looking stuff up on wiki's when I don't know what something does or need to look up data on weapons or enemies.

Might you consider the use of a wiki to be cheating?

I wouldn't really consider using a wiki cheating in a traditional sense. With Dark Souls I find the game experience is based on skill. A wiki can give an advantage on ease of use of the game, but I wouldn't consider it an unfair advantage in terms of actually playing the game as everything relies on skill and strategy rather than just crunching numbers. Yes it tells you how to obtain certain items easily rather than you figuring it out for yourself, but a Wiki (just like any other guide) can only get you so far without any skill involved.

Why do you contribute to the Dark Souls wiki? What is your motivation?

I covered this before but I will reiterate it. I contribute to this wiki simply because I enjoy the game and, with the information I have, I feel that it's good to give back to the community for such a great game. Having all the information available through one source is a very useful tool so that locating what a weapon does for upgraded damage or what an enemy will drop can be learned with ease rather than having someone spend their own time and waste upgrade resources on a weapon that they end up not liking the end result of or trying to farm an enemy to find out that it's not even capable of dropping a specific item you're looking for. A wiki I find is a very convienent source of information that saves time and the more extensive we can make our wiki and the more convenient we can sort it, the better off it will be for standard users to allow them to enjoy the game as much as we have.