The History & Corporatisation Of Japanese Game Wikis and Walkthroughs (Why You Should Be Cautious)

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This ended up being longer than expected but here's a video hopefully explaining how Japanese Game Walkthroughs & Wikis came to be, how they got massively corporate at some point and where they are at now.

Also included is some bits of me doing bad jokes and also explaining why to be wary of accepting all that these companies say as gaming gospel.

I've added the resources I refer to in the video down below. They are in Japanese but if there are enough people interested I can translate the articles fully for viewing.


Reference Articles:
https://irnote.com/n/nd4bb948061fc - Gamewith Business Model
https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/1803/30/news030.html - Cases of Plagiarism in the Industry
https://www.j-cast.com/2018/03/16323857.html?p=all - Additional Plagiarism Case Info
https://matomame.jp/user/mixmio/e417f63cb935b583bbf2 - Altema Stealing from Pokemon Wiki


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Timestamp
00:00 Intro
01:12 The Origin
02:05 The First Era - Individually Run
08:44 The Second Era - Community Driven Wikis
18:37 The Third Era - Part 1, Corporate Takeover
31:05 The Third Era - Part 2, They Fell Off
46:26 Where Are We Now
53:07 Summary for thosn who tl;dr
55:04 Closing Talk



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