World of Warcraft

Wowhead.com acquired by 'Affinity Media'

Posted Sep 17, 2008 by Nimloth

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Today we have seen another success, or disappointment, however you may view it, of another large World of Warcraft site. Wowhead.com, one of the fastest growing World of Warcraft fansites, was aquired by Affinity Media.

Reported by several sources, the deal was for approximately $1,000,000, purchased by a company with ties, whether they are still intact or not, to virtual currency marketing.

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  • Zexi said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    well crap.

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  • tehpmd said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    =(

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  • Percytriledge said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    aww crud :( An other site has sold out. First thottbot then this?

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  • Zinor said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    Allakhazam was in the middle :)

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  • Deadage said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    "...money makes the world go round world go round..."

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  • Eldredd said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    I don't even know what to think about this. Everybody is entitled to make their money but the quality of WoW sites really takes a major hit from it.

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  • Jarlaxle said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    Damn, thats ALOT of money. Maybe I should start a site like that

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  • amoa said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    Yes but it also costs YOU alot to get a site to handle all that data, and all the traffic :D

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  • BlackZam said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    Can't be good thing that Thottbot, Allakhazam and Wowhead has the same owner. :(

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  • Flisher said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    I can't get this out of my head... "all your base belong to us, resistance is futile..."

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  • frag971 said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    That is crap, i dont use allakhazam nor thottbot anymore since WoWHead appeared (those 2 sux tbh :P ) and with almost 0 ads. Now.... I hope it stays the same as it is. to the end-user. Otherwise it's another "You got EAwned" situation.

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  • thmo said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    Quite a shame - Was without a doubt my preferred site to lookup items and quests...

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  • Athrapy said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    Jarlaxle, "Damn, thats ALOT of money. Maybe I should start a site like that"


    Too late. ;o I'm starting one right now with 3 other people. :D

    http://wowwatcher.com is getting totally redone and gonna be worked on.

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  • Eldredd said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    With this WoWhead news it makes me even more confident about using curse as my 1 stop resource for all things WoW and MMORPG related.

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  • g00na said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    Maybe Until Curse gets boughtout too :P

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  • Nimloth said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    IGE tried to do that once a few years back for more money than WoWHead got and we turned them down. Curse will never be the propery of Secondary Market vendors.

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  • Critters said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    F*ck! All of these sites are selling out! I guess I'm relegated to WowWiki and Curse for all of my WoW info.

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  • Taldren said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    WoWHeads calculator was the best, though. Very fast and small URLs that would fit into comments in Ventrilo. :(

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  • Jarlaxle said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    Hell yea, this is actually good news for Curse... didn't actually think about it that way

    @Athrapy : Who says your site will be any better than mine ? :D

    @amoa : Well, in the beginning it isnt as much, but as the site starts growing you'll get money from ads anyway... both for yourself and the servers

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  • Kody said 
    Sat, Jun 23 2007 6:07 AM ()

    Agreed. When it comes to talent calculators, WoWHead really shined. I think that's part of where their popularity increase came from, even more than items. During TBC beta they always had the latest talent calc available for every class, even before the official Blizzard calc was updated, and it ran even better.

    It's a shame to hear this news as a player for sure.

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