User:A.Saturnus

Who's that?
I'm enjoying Guild Wars since October 2005, own every campaign and GW:EN. My main character is a Mesmer by the name Magus Secundus. I'm founder and Spiritus Rector (that's to say leader) of the Guild Order of Spiritual Knights [Budo]. Here's our website (sorry it's German): Budo forum My main focus is on having fun in this game. I like making up new builds and doing quests. I mainly play with Guild Members, but I still believe in PUGs. I'm mostly a PvE-player, but I have at least a little bit experience with every sort of PvP except Hero Battles.

In real life I'm from Germany, male and 28 years old. I'm psychologist by profession (which is actually the same as Mesmer, really).

The Wikia-affair
I don't understand the fuss about it all. People behave as if they were robbed of anything. Let this get straight: whatever any user contributes to GuildWiki, he doesn't own his contribution. He or she does that for free and has no claims coming from that. That's because of the license but much more importantly because the stuff we wright about here is already copyrighted. If you wright a guide about FoW farming for Paragons, that's not yours, because the Fissure of Woe is copyrighted, the build you're using is copyrighted, everything you may get dropped is copyrighted and the game mechanics affected are copyrighted. Everything you see or appear to own in Guild Wars is not yours, it's all property of NC Interactive, Inc. The EULA allows derivative works for non-commercial, personal use only, which makes GuildWiki legal. If anyone, including Wikia and you, uses any content of Guild Wars for commercial purposes - such as offering a FoW farming guide for money - it is a violation of NC Interactice's copyright. Thus, whether or not the take-over of GuildWiki was legal is a question that concerns NC Interactive's legal department. And not you or me.

Obviously, Wikia did not buy the content of GuildWiki. Firstly, it would be illegal to do so as it is a derivative work of Guild Wars. Secondly, as that content is free to use for everyone, Wikia just could have copied it anyway and use it on an own website. Wikia bought the name of GuildWiki. It may have been the community that made that name great, but it still belonged to the host, and the host could sell it to whomever he liked. I do not see anything morally or legally questionable in that.

As for me, I mainly come to GuildWiki to look up skill progression tables and where to find elite skills. As long as I can still do that, why should I think twice about who owns the name GuildWiki? Why should anybody do that?