User blog comment:Crazy sam10/An open letter to the Call of Duty developers/@comment-4159450-20150729183421

I think this letter's very important since despite our quote, "one million views a week" it doesn't quite add up to the tens of millions of views youtubers get on all their videos regardless if the content in the video is actually quality, cited, speculation, ranting, in poor taste, or even plagerized or rehashed information. And YouTubers have a more accessible grounds of advertising their content via YouTube's recommendations. Our wiki has no ads, and content from our channel on YouTube is trumped by thousands of gameplay videos from everyone else; whether officially recognized by the devs or otherwise. Official recognition is a step needed to turn this wiki from a small community to a great community. If we take the time to look at examples of other large and active communities, we could mention Bungie's community. Bungie's community is all together a single coherant community that Bungie devs take pride in recieving not only feedback, but fan content that goes beyond reviews or gameplay videos. We can see a clear split between the CoD community, divided between YouTubers and Non-YouTubers. This divide is careless and unethical as it goes in favor of the money and marketing rather than an actual community of players and fans of the game. In the end we could blame the "money and marketing" on business decisions, but community recognition falls towards respect by both the public relations and the entire dev team in general.

If the developers want to show support to those who only use CoD to garner reputation to themselves rather than a group of diverse individuals who enjoy CoD and all that can be taken from it, then that reflects on the devs. More than recognition as a wiki, but recoginition as a part of the community is what can really be taken from this. As this community grows, so does the wiki and so can opportunities for both developer and this wiki arise.

And people who don't fall in support of this are in denial -- no repercussion is greater than knowing we made no ends to try and better ourselves as a community and a wiki. We have to take risks, and the risk we're taking here is that we'll just continue on as usual. This is not an issue, but if we overcome this small hurdle we can move forward unto something brighter.

We can at least hope; or to put it in something less fantastical, we can get off our asses and make a name for ourselves and hope that people would rather read a detailed article about a weapon than hear high-pitched, nasally white kid with no job talk about how cool a gun is for seventeen minutes featuring gameplay from someone who's not him.