MMO-Champion acquired by Curse

[Lurtzimus]

I stopped linking wowhead in news posts more than a year ago I think. Glad you only notice now and didn't even read my news posts before that.



Quoting my original post here : # You will never get "AWESOME NEW STUFF RELEASED! Click the link below to actually see the news", everything will stay on the front page, simple and clean.. That shit is annoying, won't happen on my site.

I am somewhat relieve to hear this... heh still a bit pessimistic about what the outcome... longterm will bring. But that is still to be determined. Best of luck and keep bringing me that news *insert flagrant word here*!!!!

[pandaman]

I've expected this for a while now.

REALLLLLLY can't blame Boubille for selling up, the WoW bubble is going to pop pretty soon, he made the right move, gratz no doubt you are very rich now

[AuthurDent]

PLEASE... let this Battle.Net maintenance have somethign to do with a buttload of Cata Beta invites going out shortly

[Slappuppy]

Hate curse and soon to hate this site. But, money is money, and I would have sold out also.

[thoukaia]

Wait... the MLG girls... are they gone then? No... nooooo... NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[Knightsun]

I'll admit I'm a little worried about it, but...

"Ultimately, I just hope that after 3 years my readers trust me enough to know that I wouldn't do anything stupid for the site."

Ok, I will give you that. You've earned it

[kappesante]

lol guys, on the bottom! there are already cursed shitty links!
that was fast

[Nightslyr]

Is the main site PHP or VB? Just trying to figure out a rough estimate of how much it costs to keep this place operational.

[Captain3xtreme]

What is up with blizzard, 25% of the time the maintenance gets extended and 75% of the time it its an hour or 2 late without them saying anything.

[Joodoc]

So with the new backing, what do you think the odds of adding a mobile site would be? maybe just for the front page so we could look up the news without taking forever to load?

[snowblind]

So with the new backing, what do you think the odds of adding a mobile site would be? maybe just for the front page so we could look up the news without taking forever to load?

That'll be for MMO-Champion premium members.

[zarbus]

I bet you're thrilled about changing servers again.

[MattsOnlyHope]

This is just like gamespot ruining gamefaqs all over again.

[Bogrim]

You make this sound like good news. I'm happy that you'll be working with a team, and hopefully you'll get paid for doing so. However, I don't like Curse and I'm sorry to see your site fall under their ownership. While every white knight is going to rush in to defend Curse's reputation, an add-on site that requires JavaScript enabled to just access a manual download speaks for itself.

Did Curse just severely fail to reach the popularity of its more free-spirited competitors (e.g. your site, wowinterface.com, wow.com) and resorted to the stategy of buying out the competition? We've seen that story before, like Microsoft buying Hotmail and turning it into the largest piece of crap.

[furydeath]

I think they need to update that list of server being down 24 hours to ALL.

[archangel1701]

the only major change we could do to boost the traffic is to offer Night Elf porn to the users, and I was told I can't do that.

Aw, man! I was SO hoping for Night Elf porn!!!

[mosfet356]

Are the servers back up yet?

[mikedarling905]

just as long as it doesn't cost me money, I am supportive of you. I hate how curse forced that premium stuff, i still use the free side, i just deal with the limitations, and non paying perks.

[mykro9]

My only comment concerns Boub's honesty. He promised more time for Robo-Bunnies, so dammit, we better get more pix of biomechanical rodentia, that is all.

pic of robo-bunny

http://picsdigger.com/image/f83e0c05/

[muindaur]

They must have more than one authentication server. I see no reason to not stage maintenance on those so only a few are down at a time, work out the big issues, get a fix, then get the others maintained in a faster time period. It's stupid to have this much down time on log ins for a login that a bunch of their games are going to be on now.

Steam has no issues with this on a constant basis, and that's because they run things on a cloud: and do it right. They really need to get their act together with maintenance. Steam does it right. It's not that hard.

I thought the whole point of a cloud was to make sure that even if some had to be taken down for maintenance the rest could be up. I understand the realm servers all at the same time, but Battle.net accounts should be spread across multiple servers.

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