Anyways, it's fucking retarded...
On one arm they have their ZAM properties Allakhazam, Thottbot, and now WoWhead, where they make a bunch of money off gamers via fucking annoying ads (including keyloggers appearing on Allakhazam).
On the other hand they make a shitload of cash off gamers by selling in-game currency for RL currency, which of course pisses off other gamers, because of all the negatives associated with gold farming. This company also does other things unpopular with gamers, like flooding google (google bombing) with a zillion fucking pages of shit when you try to search for gaming news to try to drive people to their REALLY bad ad-infested websites that just rip news feeds of other actual mmo community sites.
Meanwhile profits all go to the same group of people who own the parent companies that owns both groups. Even if IGE isn't technically owned by Affinity Media anymore... By supporting sites like allakhazam and now wowhead, you are just enabling those same people to invest more in RMT business / farming operations, which allows them to buy more community websites... which allows them to invest in more gold-farming operations.. which allows them to... you get the idea
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