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WoW Database Site Sells For $1 Million
MattHock writes "Wowhead (a WoW information database) has been sold to ZAM (Affinity Media) for the price of $1 million. ZAM is the owner of several other WoW databases, including Thottbot and Allakhazam. Until recently Affinity was also the owner of IGE, a highly controversial company that sold in-game wealth for real life money. Affinity recently sold IGE, which Wowhead claims as the reason they allowed the sale to go through. But did ZAM really sell IGE? The blogger who put this story online doubts that IGE and ZAM have actually distanced themselves. He believes that the supposed sale was just actually a means of restructuring to hide the relationship, similar to how IGE's relationship to Thottbot was hidden for a number of months through a convoluted set of parent companies."
this is just an attempt to suck someone else into buying into it. no wow site is worth 1 million or even CLOSE
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
No, your brain really does have to adjust. It reminds me of when I tried to play Counterstrike a few years ago after having played a lot of Counterstrike: Source. While I was able to play it with no problem when it came out, returning to it after several years was difficult because it no longer appeared to have depth to it. It looked like a flat cartoon with no dimensionality. It was a strange experience.
And that was the same experience I had when I tried to play WoW a few months ago. My first thought was "I don't remember it looking this crappy" followed by "wow, it almost doesn't even look three dimensional".
And yes, Vanguard is a deeper game. Enormous world. Great crafting. Far more character creation and less forgiving of stupidity in one's style of play. However, it's still just another level treadmill and is very much derivitive of WoW (right down to every inch of the interface and combat system). But the point is that WoW is old and like every MMORPG that has been, is or will be - it will lose steam as new players have little interest in joining an older game and people who have been playing the game decide it's time to try something new.
Not to mention all of the people who finally grow out of the fisher-price stage and want to try something a little more complex than a Tomagotchi with a maul and hoofs after several years.
I know that Blizzard is working on something as we speak. I don't know the details about it and I haven't asked the people I know who are involved (why ask when you know they're not going to tell, right?) - but it isn't going to be the current iteration of WoW, surely... and that will render the database useless and cut off the revenue generation rather quickly.
Even if it has another three years left in the game... How are they possibly going to generate at least $1.2 million (about what you would need to justify the purchase at all) in only three yeras? Just from banner ads!?
I first parsed the title as "DoD Database" and wondered why it only fetched $1m. And then I saw that it was this boring drivel.