IGE still owns Affinity Media according to Wandering Go

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calotherm — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:48 GMT

so what happenes to wowhead now they sold out to this scum of a company?

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BBR — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:47 GMT

Probably not much. and.. i cant say it's unexpected.. Goldsellers are scum, regardless of what kind of suit they wear or how much money they offer you.

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Bloodfury — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:46 GMT

IGE should burn in hell

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Simmo — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:45 GMT

so let me get this straight, an awesome site (Wowhead) got bought by gold selling &%£holes that ruin server economies and everything else... well i guess owner of WoWhead is $1,000,000 (thats about £500,00 :P)

now that mini rant is out of the way we'll just have to see wowheads popularity downfall

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Ferdoirixch — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:44 GMT

Well one or two things will happen..

Find a new site that gives updated and good info..
WoW head will be given a cold shoulder by the community
Sooner or later wow head will just fade

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Thehermit — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:43 GMT

I don't think Wowhead will fall off because of this. Sure some people may stop using it, but this is probably a fraction of a percent of their total users. Their site is fast and has great usability unlike Thottbot and Allakhazam, and as long as that stays true, they will be popular.

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zephiK — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:42 GMT

Alternative for Wowhead - http://wowdigger.com/

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Eldredd — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:41 GMT

The problem isn't that people are going to stop using Wowhead because it is being run by goldseller, the problem is that the site will more than likely go to crap just like Allakhazams and Thottbot did when they were bought out.

Maybe I should cut and paste my responses from the other news posting about Wowhead being bought out. Hate to say I told you so.

Your alternative to Wowhead? Why Curse v4 of course. If you got a beta invite check it out.

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Kody — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:40 GMT

I've added the original source for this story; it's a rather long read but very interesting. Especially when it gets to the section that talks about Affinity Media's June filing as a company, and the fact that IGE is still mentioned.

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BBR — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:39 GMT

Thottbot has always been owned by the same company, and it's still being used, though more and more were moving to wowhead because it was a viable alternative.

i won't use wowdigger though.. so.. back to thott.

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Jherad — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:38 GMT

If past experience with IGE/Affinity's buyouts is anything to go by, nothing will happen to WoWhead...

And by that, I do mean ~nothing~. Complete stagnation. See Thottbot and Allakhazam for examples.

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airddragon — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:33:37 GMT

i have an interesting corporate juggling theory in mind. Notice how in one part of the Afinity Restatement Doco theres a particularly interesting reference, here:

"amount of $1,000,000 issued by IGE to Allakhazam.com, LLC in the acquisition by a subsidiary of IGE..."

I get from this that Affinity does not, has never owned, IGE. Instead I get the distinct feeling that Affinity is the current fall guy face for us to see. No where in this document is there rights of transfer to a Foreign Corp (IE stocks to sell said company and its assets) mentioned. If there are no by-laws to allow transfer of it as such, how can it have been sold?

In the end this is all just corporate name juggling, hoping that no one will be able to trace who owns what if someone ever decides to come after them. Affinity is IGE and IGE is Affinity, words to the otherwise are just hollow facades of delicately stated lies. i mean if IGE owned Affinity in the first place, how could it have sold it off? Sure maybe this is a case of the child corp outliving the parent corp, but I wouldn't bet on it.