Wowhead.com sold to Affinity Media

[Laven]

wowhead is pretty good use it every now and then, but I still use Allakhazams more then anything because that was the only good EQ site around after everlore went to shit

[QforQ]

Originally Posted by Kodylan

Yeah I find it hard to believe that Affinity Media sold off IGE. Is there a press release anyone could provide as concrete evidence to it?

Here's something I found on a quick search on Virgin Worlds
F13.net - Usefully Cynical Commentary » Brock Pierce Goes Legit? Yantis buys IGE? Cats and Dogs Living Together?
Allakhazam.com: World of Warcraft

[nosf]

Originally Posted by Saban

i miss eqmaps =***(

Wasn't EQmaps the first one to start charging for access to fan made maps? Or was that EQatlas? Or was EQmaps the asian fellow who made those awesome multi level maps?

And what happened to Brock Pierce's partner at DEN who fled the country to avoid statutory rape / sex with a minor / et cetera charges?

[Antarius]

It's all rather simple.

IGE hires/buys out Yantis.

IGE/Yantis Form "Super big evil corporation" to more easily manage every company they aquire, and for tax puposes.

Wanting to rid the tarnish of IGE from the rest of it's holdings, the "big evil corporation" sells IGE back to Yantis... probably to the tune of about $0.01

"Big evil corportion" then gets to claim it doesn't own IGE. (troof)

[Kolle]

vivendi will force blizzard to run an exchange while affinity gets to run it

[Garthilk]

So whatever happened to the shell company that Owned Ogaming, what was the name of that shell company, I forget. RPG Holdings that's right. I thought they bought Allakhazam? I clearly remember IGE telling us that they were not related to RPG Holdings when they bought Allakhazam and formed Zam Network. I'm clearly lost, so Affinity Media comes from nowhere, with a million dollars, and buys up a website. Wait a minute, what funnel is the IGE money going into this week?

[QforQ]

Originally Posted by Garthilk

So whatever happened to the shell company that Owned Ogaming, what was the name of that shell company, I forget. RPG Holdings that's right. I thought they bought Allakhazam? I clearly remember IGE telling us that they were not related to RPG Holdings when they bought Allakhazam and formed Zam Network. I'm clearly lost, so Affinity Media comes from nowhere, with a million dollars, and buys up a website. Wait a minute, what funnel is the IGE money going into this week?

Sure can be a bit confusing

[Tyen]

Originally Posted by Antarius

It's all rather simple.

IGE hires/buys out Yantis.

IGE/Yantis Form "Super big evil corporation" to more easily manage every company they aquire, and for tax puposes.

Wanting to rid the tarnish of IGE from the rest of it's holdings, the "big evil corporation" sells IGE back to Yantis... probably to the tune of about $0.01

"Big evil corportion" then gets to claim it doesn't own IGE. (troof)

That sounds about right.

[Dynalisia]

Seems to me the only way this circle could be broken is if someone sets up a database site that *everyone* then uses, so they make a ton of cash from advertising and never be tempted to sell out. Until then, whatever is the latest and greatest site will always be gobbled up by these guys.

[Antarius]

Originally Posted by Dynalisia

Seems to me the only way this circle could be broken is if someone sets up a database site that *everyone* then uses, so they make a ton of cash from advertising and never be tempted to sell out. Until then, whatever is the latest and greatest site will always be gobbled up by these guys.

Someone already made that site... it was wowhead...

1,000,000 dollars in cash is kinda hard to pass up though, you gotta admit.

Advertising revenue pays the bills, sure, but it doesn't quite make you rich, especially when you aren't accepting money for advertising that contains trojans or a million popups.

[Gorthor]

Originally Posted by Dynalisia

Seems to me the only way this circle could be broken is if

Why broke the circle at all? I do not see any problem for fansites being bought out for such amounts of cash. You know what happened when Thottbot and Allakhazam got bought out? Their services didn't improve and wowhead.com came up, a polished and improved version of old services.

Know what happens to wowhead now? I doubt we see any improvements there. A completely new website will spawn and be bought up in 12 month, making new/old guys wealthy. Being locked into such a network always cripples your freedom to improve the site, some not-bought-out site will exploit, just like wowhead did 1 year ago.

[Blumpster]

Start using World of Warcraft Quests, Items, Maps, Forums - The Goblin Workshop ! It's run by a single man!

[Furism]

The best feature of WoWHead is that you actually get a decimal for locations (last time I checked Allakhazam and Thottbot, it didn't exist). Makes a big difference to go to 43,3;53,4 instead of 43;53

Also, the site uses AJAX extensively. The "page doesn't reload when I click next!" thing. It actually loads in advance but hides the content, when you click next it hides the previous page and shows the next page, while the next and previous in line are cached.

So overall, the "behind the scene" code is probably as good on both sites, but the Web code is 100 times better on WoW Head.

[Warrian]

I haven't been able to load WoWHead for like 2 days now.

[Xurlitil]

Originally Posted by Warrian

I haven't been able to load WoWHead for like 2 days now.

They are probably switching some things around since they have been acquired.

Try this

Start->run->cmd-> ipconfig /flushdns