User blog comment:Arcaedia/Enabling Article Comments/@comment-368004-20150506212750

One reason why Dishonored has more editors than Deus Ex could be that Dishonored is a relatively new franchise, so the wiki had no competition, while our community already has many websites devoted to the game. The forum on EidosGames.com seems to be the most popular. I don't think enabling comments would boost the stats in any significant way.

On the other hand, I do believe the comments are superior to the old-fashioned talk page system. Not only because of no necessity to put 4 tildes on the end (although people do tend to forget doing that), but general accessibility as well. When you say something on the talk page, you need to edit the entirety of it and make sure everything is in the right place. Unexperienced user can mess it up pretty badly, including the edits of other people. With comments there's no such risk and therefore they feel more welcoming.

I'm more concerned that the existing talk pages with valuable discussion will become inaccessible.