User blog comment:Crazy sam10/An open letter to the Call of Duty developers/@comment-1142365-20150729191915

There are plenty of good points raised here. This reply goes out to anyone from Activision or Call of Duty devs who (hopefully) will eventually see this and genuinely read and try to understand the main blog and the comments.

Reiterating what Crazy sam10 said, this website, while part of the for-profit Wikia network, is still maintained and built exclusively by dedicated fans of the series. A lot of our older users and also new users have played nigh every game in the series, and our website reflects that; we have all the info we could possibly glean from pre-CoD4 games as well.

No one who edits and maintains this website elicits payment from it. It is done, in the grand scheme of things, because we love the games, and we love writing about the games even more. So hopefully, you can understand why at least a handful of users are a little soured that you can seem to willfully ignore the existence of this website. It is well known that YouTubers and MLG clans receive direct attention from the game developers, whether it informally via Twitter, or going as far as getting custom skins in-game created for them. While they ostensibly offer a method of advertisement, they also get at least some form of monetary incentive; whereas we over here do it for none.

Before Christmas, some admins of the website received a copy of Advanced Warfare with all the expansions available upon release. This was warmly received and looked to be the start of more solid relationships between developers, publishers and the wiki. Unfortunately, while the gift is still appreciated today, it didn't seem to be the start we were hoping for. Our content isn't perfect, but as a community we uphold the responsibility we have given ourselves to make it as perfect as is possible. And, perhaps most importantly, we present our content as descriptions of in-game content. Opinions, from minor opinions on how a gun handles to grandiose statements on what one game is like compared to another, are not permitted on articles. We let the games stand on their own merits.

Drifting away from appeals to emotion now. Practically, we could build our content faster if we had a helping hand from devs or Activision. That helping hand doesn't have to come in the form of free game and DLC handouts; but surely some communication can go a long way. We are more than willing to uphold relations of some sort, even if they must start small on something like Twitter. Right now, it feels like we have absolutely nothing when it comes to relationships with developers and publishers. We are a pretty big fansite and no doubt we provide good content in an accessible format; it would help us grow and henceforth help the community have a more expansive database to learn about the series, and maybe improve their game.

The Call of Duty online community is still a real force. That's evident in the echelon of YouTubers that receive recognition and support from developers and/or Activision. We would like to be a part of that recognition network: in a way that lends help to us as a collective website and therefore the wider online community.

Thank you for reading. We hope we can hear something back from you.