Creating an open source WoW database

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12-08-2008 @ 2:49PM

el said...

The main value the large database sites add isn't the raw data. It's community, usability, and ability to make increasingly complex patterns "accessible".

And all this overlooks the irrational circus of Blizzard obfuscating information and third-parties reassembling it.

The rational conclusion from that is Blizzard simply open up its internal data, and let third-parties make it accessible to the player-base. Something they've consistently been better at doing that Blizzard. I could go on...

(As aside, Blizzard own all the raw data, and I expect would challenge anyone that declares anything derived directly from WoW to be "open source". So that term needs to be used with exceptional care.)

(Also worth mentioning Adys' http://www.wowwiki.com/OpenWDB .)

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