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- mattrh, on 10/11/2007, -6/+29somebody just lost $1million
- Puppetfunk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13You still can! All you need is a Delorean, A Flux Capacitor, 1.21 Gigawatts of Power, and enough room to get to 88 mph. You might also need to steal some Plutonium....
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12I remember the guy who ran Wowhead.com posted on the official forums that he would never sell it. I called ***** on him at the time. I said "Everyone sells for a price." And I'd sell that bitch for $1 million without thinking about for one ***** nanosecond.
- atomicpoet, on 10/11/2007, -8/+18Someone must have not gotten the memo that less people are hopping onto WoW servers. Oh well. Even if such reports are true, someone is pocketing $1 million.
- KiSA, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14honestly, I was more taken but the number $1 billion in virtual assets sold each year. I enjoy games and the occasional MMO once in a while but why would you pay real money for a virtual item in a game.
I think I remember a story about an ebay auction for a FFXI item that was selling for $1,000 or $5,000 or something. I just don't understand the conept of a person with such an obsession with a video game as to spend that much money on it, who at the same time has a life outside of it that they can make that much extra money to buy the item. - NicksVideo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Because it's that easy.
- EBorg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Take a look at the site before you criticize the site.
It is remarkably well made.
Maybe a fan site of any subject matter designed this well would be worth 1 million bucks. - KiSA, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Actual asset vs. Virtual asset (that if you are playing for long enough you might acquire for free anyway)
- badken, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8While there's been a dip in simultaneous logins as traced by warcraftrealms.com, the overall trend is still increasing. It's too early to tell if the post-expansion dip is people burned out on the Burning Crusade, a slip in popularity, or just less people using the WoWCensus plugin. Give it a few months, after the summer slump, and check again.
- dptechie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6That's alot of WoW months
- skull24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5God Damn! I better start on that Killzone 2 and Halo 3 website now.
- KZM104, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Yeah, posting on here at 10:30pm on a Saturday night really shows that.
- GenericNumber1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Wowhead seems to claim the people they are selling to (ZAM) "have no relation with IGE."
http://www.wowhead.com/?wowhead-exciting-news - DeathBorn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"Late to the party" is an enormous understatement.
- BESTenemy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7It's Ultima all over again. This is a sign of change. An indication that people that were with the game from early days have now lost confidence in its longevity. They figured now's the peak point - time to sell. Maybe someone knows more than we do. Maybe some other game's coming.
- evensong, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3wtf, digg killed my line breaks.
- dadioflex, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I agree 100%. But there are games like Projest Enropia where it's routine to spend hundreds of dollars a month just to play the game. And most people probably haven't even heard of Project Entropia. They had a space station sell in that game for 100k. Yes. One hundred thousand dollars. THAT is nuts. And what's even nuttier is that the guy who bought it probably is turning a profit. But what happens if the devs of one of these games or communities (like Second Life) make an unpopular game change and they lose a lot of their subscribers? These virtual assets can drop away to nothing.
- Diorhomme, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Selling any website under 2 years old for a cool million is quite an accomplishment.
- GenericNumber1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Wowhead is much much more than a talent calculator, it USED to be a talent calculator before they left beta... now it's a very full featured item, quest, spell, etc database.
- aydoubleyou, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3An excellent website. I used to use it when I was played that life-sucking game.
But I dont think it's worth a million.
But who knows, maybe this guy has a plan. No one spends a mil-ticket aimlessly... or maybe Im totally wrong about that, we'll see. - evensong, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5Less people are playing WoW now is not because there's too little to do, but too much. There is too much content and too many things to do to access that content. You must first grind reputation with multiple fractions, which means running the same instance multiple times. Then you must run those same instances in a harder mode in order to raid. Then you must grind those raids multiple times, for more reputation, in order to access the larger raids for better epics. And so on, until the end of time. Mind you none of this can be done without a guild.
On the side, there is also BG and Arena to grind, because those are "free epics". Recently they have added "daily quests" in which you must log on every day to earn even more "free epics". The typical casual player won't scratch the surface of what is out there. Most players who still play WoW and have access to this content are not casual. Normal casual players play 1-3 hours a day, a few days a week at most. The WoW casual player probably plays 4 or more, multiple days a week.
I'm glad to say I'm selling my character. - NeuroMan42, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2There is a News.com story about IGE still with AM as of yesterday… IGE is still tied to Affinity. So both AM and IGE are talking BS about not being together. Anyone with decent research can SEE for themselves that IGE is still part of the family.
- MemoryDump, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1there goes the last good WoW site.. RIP wowhead.com - you were 1 of the greatest!
- k1down, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Your life is full of important internet trolling I'm sure.
- k1down, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1And it kills your line breaks.
- TheFrod, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Warhammer online
- BigglesPiP, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3If I was American, maybe.
Dumbass. - ashefire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1For how long this website has been around, $1 million is an amazing accomplishment.
- k1down, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah, trolls are losers.
- k1down, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1/irony
I'm not giving any merit to your comment or anything of that sort, I'm just tired of your inane ***** showing up in my game threads. People who
1) Put pictures of themselves kissing as a user icon
2) Use a Real-Life physical trait for a moniker
3) Make it explicitly clear they are a girl in their moniker
Do these things:
1) Suck at Quake and or don't play Quake, but talk a good one
2) Make useless comments on gaming websites in a cry for attention, when we all know that girls suck ass at video games
3) Make snide comments to other users that are off-topic in hopes of making themselves not seem like the insecure pail-faced goth kid they are.
Digg loves list right? Quit making the comment system uglier by putting your face on it. It's bad enough as it is.
"And I laugh again at people that comment something dumb"
Do you play WoW? Psssssssssst, your comment is dumb. - mistahroth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Bummer, I only got 15,000 for my Final Fantasy site haha
- StriferDiem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Perhaps the money the site is raking in from revenue made it a worthwhile purchase?
Even if wow subscriptions dropped down 50%, thats still a potential 3-4million people visiting that site. - Fisos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1ahh, don't forget to compare resale value on both of the items as well.
- Rizin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I vote for LEGO UNIVERSE
- vanza001, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Dugg... WAR is the WoW killer...
- MonkeyFit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1System of Starcraft.
- ahac, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Funny. Wowhead was so proud that they are not owned by gold sellers and their competition (thottbot, ...) was. Now they have the same owners and it suddenly all changed. Either they lied before or they are lying now.
Even if their new owners sold IGE (the gold selling company) before buying wowhead they didn't do it because of the respect for the gamers. Those guys still made buying gold (aka. cheating) popular. - TheFrod, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Dugg for digging!!!
- ubhe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1to people with high paying salaries who can easily turn 1k in a week why not? its better than spending their time grinding away, you might think they have more money than sense but thats what rich people do.
- Agret, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1god i hate this new comment system, so many boxes everywhere just to read 1 thread
- dudefaceguyman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I find it hilarious it was bought for 1 million. Sure it might be a smart buisiness decision a year ago when WoW was just as strong and still fairly early in its life. Though right now I doubt the game will last 2 more years before it begins to slowly fall apart when a bigger and better MMO comes out.
- rubio22, on 03/23/2009, -0/+0That is insane! http://fastestwowgold.com
- chriswhiteley, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1I think whomever purchased the site never learned how to monetize a website. The giant banners with the word "Default" are awesome!
- demizer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Acck. I had 65 days on my paladin play time. I can't look at that game without being sick, heck I even met a girl from playing WoW. I do believe whomever payed 1 million for wowhead was foolish, WoW is not going to be around for more than a year and a half tops. Although, there are some players who can not live without playing that game.
- WeeGold, on 06/06/2009, -0/+0www.WeeGold.com is a better choice in Buying WOW Gold.
Only 11$ per 1000 Gold.Fast deliver. - jonnievegas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Oh my god...
I can't believe people are still playing WoW. - videogamegold, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0People are still playing Ultima Online, so what is so surprising about people playing the most popular MMO in history? Make no mistake, buying popular fan sites is good business, especially if you can use that to get customers involved in your other businesses. Currency sales is a big business, and owning sites which attract nothing but fans of that game is worth gold.
- Tserk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0That C|net articel asserts that Wowhead traffics in virtual items.... nice fact checking there.
- richeyal, on 04/11/2008, -0/+0hello everyone,Do you ever purchase any items for world of
warcraft. Actuallly I did I am a world of warcraft freak .
What do you think of gold transaction in wow? Or you can
visit my website http://www.gamers777.com/ to discuss it -
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