WOWDB.com launch a success
Greetings everyone.
I am the founder of Curse and I would like to share a few words with you today.
Yesterday, we launched our new World of Warcraft Database, www.wowdb.com. WOWDB represents 8 months of hard work from our development team, and is the product of collaboration among many World of Warcraft players.
Today I have great news. In the past 24-hours, we have already had more than 50,000 visitors. This is encouraging, because we believe that WOWDB will benefit all of us, the World of Warcraft community. As most of you know, all the major players in this market have struggled with innovation recently. We've focused on bringing that innovation back to the game database space, by creating some of the features found on WOWDB, and will continue to do so with new community-driven features each week.
Since launch, we have received more than 400 emails containing bugs, congratulations, feedback. I want to thank all of you who took the time to report the problems you see, and for offering us great ideas for new features.
We are taking care of all of them, one by one.
We designed WOWDB to be as accessible as possible to the World of Warcraft community. We have enhanced standards greatly, and added many new features that can't be found anywhere else:
Search Assist
Interactive Previews
Wish Lists
Book marking
Characters
And Wiki-integration
More than 120,000 people are using the Curse Client right now, and contributing all the data you see on WOWDB. I'll let you guys imagine what type of infrastructure we had to build to be able to process the sheer volume of data we receive every second.
WOWDB is a great opportunity for everyone in the WoW Community. It will drive innovation that will result in a better user experience, and bring some real competition to what was once a monopoly. I have to say that I have been very impressed by how the community started right away to interact on the site. More than 10,000 of you registered today and nearly 500 comments have been posted since launch.
Your participation to the life of our community is greatly appreciated.
I am myself a longtime MMO gamers, passionated about this industry.
Thanks,
Hubert

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OmodisI love this Database; the interface is beautiful, quick, neat and intuitive.
Is some level of wow.curse.com integration a possibility? I understand that due to Advertiser and Partner expectations there may be some challenges. Just throwing that out there!
* Enable WoWDB.com Favorites List to also list favorite Add-ons from wow.curse.com
Regarding some of the comments 'it looks amazingly like wowhead' etc. If an interface works, you don't change it just for the sake of change. This is NOT to say that Curse ripped off any site in any way; you just don't reinvent the wheel because it looks too much like other wheels.
A single search bar on the index page makes sense. Like google.com; did wowhead rip off Google? No. It's a smart interface.
Anyway, it's an odd thing how so often when something good comes along, many people have to scrutinize to find some level ill intention. The site (wowdb.com) is still in it's infancy; it's only going to get better.
Well done, Curse /clap
* Edit - Oh Noes! WoWHead has implemented a search assistant - like WoWDB! they must be ripping off WoWDB! ..lawl