Thread:Byte Me/@comment-499247-20190714155638/@comment-10507735-20190716042902

Thank you for your recent suggestion but we are unlikely to proceed in this direction for the following reasons:
 * 1) Games have a life time or even a half life time (sic). This site gets around 20-25% of the traffic that the canon S.T.A.L.K.E.R. site (covering the three retail games) gets.
 * 2) Interest in this game tends to go in spurts after version releases.
 * 3) By the developers' own statements, the current release (v1.4007) is the final release. No further releases are expected.
 * 4) The devs never saw fit to create any form of knowledge base for their (incredibly complicated and ambitious) project and confined themselves to social media fora.
 * Which brings me to the essence of this reply:


 * 1) A few enthusiasts DID see the need for a KB. This is what the Lost Alpha Wiki is.
 * 2) There are well-known locations on the interwebs for talking things over, bitching about bugs, shooting the breeze, modding the mod, getting help, etc., - ModDB and GSC Forums being prime examples.
 * 3) Both of these sites have effectively 'died a death' as far as Lost Alpha is concerned (and STALKER generally as far as GSC Fora goes)
 * 4) While we stress that we are a WIKI and not a Helpdesk, we still offer help on the various article pages where we can, so that it is more focused on the problem.
 * 5) Since we're nothing to do with the devs, more esoteric stuff is referred to them.
 * But most importantly:


 * 1) I have seen some of these "Discussion" groups and the best that might be said of them is that they are "lightweight" in nature.
 * 2) At worst, social media type hangouts for trolls and webtrash.
 * 3) Buzz phrases like "..has been proven to increase activity.." and "Fandom data suggests that .." are all very well, but don't really cut the mustard. People are already free to blog their experiences here with considerably more "poetic licence" than in other fora.
 * 4) We don't need 'activity' for its own sake. Fandom might. But we don't need to know about anyone's 'Stalker LOLcat', 'what's your favourite gun?', 'my 9Gb photoalbum of "stalking in Novya Zemlya"'.


 * Sitb, I appreciate where you are going with this, but look at the facts, we had "peak stalker" a long time ago, and LA is the hydraulic fracking version of stalker.