Hello. My name is M1 and I'm the newest addition to the staff team on the Infinity Blade wiki. Only recently have I begun to take notice of the community surrounding the Infinity Blade games; I was a lurker who scoured the wiki and other sources to gain information for my individual game. I've played these games for over eight years now, and only now am I beginning to see just how large this community is.
Did you know about Infinity Blade: Bloodlines? It's a fan game being worked on by Xhat and Kralich, two active community members in the Infinity Blade discord. It's been progressing slowly but steadily over the past year or so. I am mentioning this because it highlights the largest issue facing the Infinity Blade community. We have very little communication.
That changes today.
When I first joined the Infinity Blade discord, founded in January 2017 by former ChAIR marketer Brad Cummings, the consensus was that we were the last remaining members of the community. We were the present and the future of the game. If ChAIR, in an attempt to amass their entire community on one platform, could only reach ~250 players, who else could possibly be a part of the community?
By the time the discord was created, the Infinity Blade wiki had already been in a deteriorated state for over 3 years. It was well known by the discord that the wiki had a very shallow pool of information on Infinity Blade 3 topics, and by early 2018 many community members began to amass information about the game in their own guides and tables. It didn't matter that they weren't readily accessible; the entire community was concentrated on the official discord, so everyone was able to check the discord and learn whatever they needed to be successful in the game.
But that wasn't the case. There are thousands of active users that play Infinity Blade every day. Don't believe me? I cannot reveal specific information, but I can say that my conviction arises from page analytics. Infinity Blade discord members aren't the ones visiting the page; these are equally active and engaged users that have yet to see the scale of the community in which they preside.
So who am I? I'm one of you. I was an active member who had no clue that there was a single person who still enjoyed the games on the same scale I did. I would play Infinity Blade 2's NewGame+ on my own between classes and before going to sleep. I would look at six-year-old guides to help assist me and I would create my own playstyles to more effectively play the game. I would experiment with gem combinations to see if there were undiscovered forges. And I would reference the wiki when all else failed.
I joined the Infinity Blade discord in October 2019 and thought that was it; there is nothing left of the Infinity Blade community. I had discovered the haven of players. Some were old. Some were new. Some were active. Some were not. But I was wrong. Very, very wrong.
You. The reader. The active player. The fan who has no one to talk with. Become known. Join the Infinity Blade discord, and there, we may endlessly fight deathless and level our characters and gems!
The wiki's future has never been more unsure. It has been deteriorating for some time due to current and previous administration slowly losing interest in the game. Wiki Bureaucrat Noctefleur/Arctic Blue made a post 4 years ago regarding the future of the wiki, stating that she could not tolerate the decline of the wiki, but boredom (likely) took the better of her and she has not made a wiki edit since May 30th, 2016. Don't get me wrong: I don't think it's bad that she moved on from the game. All people will. But my point is that old community has moved on.
It's time for a new generation of Infinity Blade fans to take over.
