Wowhead and IGE's Relationship

Use wowdb.com

IGE is nothing but a shadow of what it used to be. There is a pretty interesting article about them here:
http://looterslounge.blogspot.com/2008/01/rise-and-fall-of-ige.html

Funny story... WoW Insider updated their story to show that they have new information that may contradict this summary by Epod. Yet, Curse hasn't updated their news. Or provided a link to the original article.

Tell me what Affinity Media does?

JM: Affinity Media is basically a holding company for different gaming assets. Clearly, there were three parts to the company. There was an IGE division, which everyone knows about. And while we���re not releasing the details, it���s common knowledge now that IGE is no longer a part of Affinity Media, that we���re no longer in that business.

5th question down located here: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=14235

I suggest taking down this article. Everything in this article is a fucking joke.

This is nothing but an intentional jab at Wowhead by Curse because Wowhead is their top competition. Spend some time reading the site feedback forum on Wowhead where the CM's have layed out very clearly what the situation is.

I'm a little bit disappointing in Curse for posting this. There's no need to knock on other sites to try to make your own look better.

Perhaps Curse is no longer the great site it once used to be if its starting to resort to these types of tactics.

Maybe now instead I'll visit the competitor sites instead of coming here first.

There is an appropriate way to report on your competitors. You don't do it by using obviously biased sources. I wouldn't trust a news report on Microsoft from a site called "xboxsux", why would I trust an article on IGE from "igeclassaction"?

Who the heck cares who owns wowhead or thottbot or allkhazam. I could really care less. If the info they put out is good then I'm happy. The only repercussion I can even think of is that gold selling ads might start appearing on those sites, and AdBlock plus is pretty sweet.

You're accepting this "news story" at face value, Indelible, when simply going to the Home page of the site in question reveals the source's bias. No respectable news agency would make the same logical leap that you did.

The only link that can be proved between Wowhead and IGE is that Affinity used to own both, never at the same time.

Let's suspend the schadenfreude of watching IGE get pwnt for a bit...

First off, this is not an impartial news website here. It is a site set up by the plaintiffs and lawyers of a class action lawsuit against IGE.

Secondly, despite the site's claims to the contrary, IGE is NOT Affinity Media. According to a story posted on Gamasutra, IGE once was a division of Affinity media, which was sold back to Jon Yantis before Affinity acquired Wowhead.

Personally, I do not think this lawsuit will survive. While I do not endorse nor condone the practice, gold selling and powerlevelling is only illegal within Blizzard's game rules and TOS.

I don't think it "means" anything other than to say "haha, your awesome site that you thought was so uber and NOT owned by gold sellers is in FACT owned by gold sellers"
The uploader for wowhead does not have your wow password, and to make sure it doesn't, do what I do and run it only once in a while to upload the information and then exit the client. There is no reason for it to run while you play the game. All the information it needs is in the savedvariables anyways.

OK... So what does this mean exactly? So what if the databases are owned by gold sellers? Does that mean our account integrity is somehow threatened by using the database? Does it mean I get targetted for more spam while in game? I guess I just don't understand the implications of this now knowing it to be true

too bad none of that said anything about wowhead eh?

edit: Ok, so a user-linked blog covered it. But how does one know it wasn't sold since that was quite some time ago?