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WoWHead

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WoWHead, the pretty, shiny World of Warcraft item database, has been sold to the ZAM Network for over (an estimated, rumored) $1 million. WoWHead’s announcement is here, along with the now-typical rationalization for selling to former/current/speculated/who-knows-what associates of IGE, gold sellers to the stars.

Here’s what I say: why rationalize? It’s none of our business, frankly.

An interesting history lesson about this and prior fan site sales, including Thottbot and Allaka-adver-popups, by Ahmed Farooq, former acquisitions dude at IGE: “Hot off the Presses: Wowhead sold for over $1 million”.

Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record with these stories? The truth is, I can’t figure out WHAT we’ve got and until then, I have to use lots of slashed up phrases for all the “either-or’s” like estimated/rumored/speculated and current/former/not-yet-denied.

Pesky Decimal Points

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Here’s a fun World of Warcraft miscalculation: the European servers passed out netherdrakes and Gladiator titles to arena team members without regard to rank or activity. Good luck tracking down that bug, the anecdotal evidence is all over the place on who got free stuffs and why. (Some Euro server threads if you’re into math mysteries: The 0.5% braket for Gladiator became 50%, Season end – Rewards and Ranks totally messed, and, Why did i and many others get a Drake + gladiator?)

Related? Rolling Restarts 6/21/07:

We will be issuing rolling restarts at 5:00 a.m. PDT for all realms to implement a fix for Arena points. We anticipate each realm to be down for approximately 15 minutes once their restart begins.

Man. I never get to enjoy fun bugs. I only get the crap where I accidentally sell off rare, legendary class items then get disco’d from the game, roasting my buyback log. True story — still pissed about that one.