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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Looks like Taylan has made his decision: he intends to put ads on bg3.wiki

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[–] symthetics@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Just use an ad blocker? I've used that wiki loads and honestly can't blame the guy for wanting to try and make a bit of money for his and other people's time and effort.

That said maybe patreon or something would have been a better idea.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can.

He mentions in the link that everything everyone added was explicitly licensed to not be commercial.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but hosting the wiki itself has a cost.

Not a huge one.

But more importantly, he thinks installing open source updates on a community project with community data constitutes a full time job. His guess is that it will generate "significantly higher" than 15k per month and he wants a big chunk of that.

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