LogFAQs > #980008435

You know, it wouldn't actually be that hard to turn GameFAQs into a multi-purpose wiki site instead of being oriented more around published FAQs and guides. A single site with community-generated wikis for (nearly) every game is actually something that the modern Internet would value (and in some ways what Fandom as a whole is trying to be, to pretty much everyone's chagrin because their sites are awful), saving the need to search for different wiki pages for different games and possibly even posing a real challenge to official wikis run by studios themselves (the convenience of having everything in one spot is hard to compete with, provided the GameFAQs versions of wikis aren't completely incompetent compared to official versions, as is often what happens now with Fandom wikis). Toss in better integration with modern social media and maybe some sort of Likes/Upvotes system (as much as I don't care for it, people expect that sense of validation from their social media these days and not having it huts the platform), and you've got something that might gain traction among younger users.

Except, of course, it's a given that Fandom's efforts to make that shift would inevitably just make the site more like the wikis they already have (which is... bad. Very bad.), plus developing GameFAQs to be the definitive wiki destination would undermine all of the other wikis they've bought out, so I don't think it's particularly likely that they'll actually make any such improvements. The biggest value owning GameFAQs has to Fandom is that they can take any guide content users create/have created for this site and copy it to more successful wiki pages to divert GameFAQs-bound traffic there.