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Started by Catriona R
Sun, 01 Feb 2015 02:39
WoW Insider closing
Author: Catriona R
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 02:39
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 02:39
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http://wow.joystiq.com/2015/01/30/wow-insider-is-logging-off/ Don't know if anyone else here read this site but it's been one of my favourites for many years now, very sad to see it go. Seems the lead writers there already have plans for a new project which will fill the gap, I really hope they can manage it as I'll miss it badly if it goes entirely. Damn you AOL, yes, I know, economic downturn and all that, but it is (was) a very valuable site for the community; I always felt their more indepth and personal/community articles complemented the more database and news-driven content of MMO-C and Wowhead, the three together gave a great balance of coverage for me. I'm in the process of saving copies of what looks like being several hundred Know Your Lore articles, in case they go offline entirely, as I always found them a great way to catch up on bits of story I missed, or good for some interesting speculation - it's actually very hard to not start reading them as I go along, but I'll never finish if I do that!
Re: WoW Insider closing
Author: Peter T.
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:03
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:03
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Den 01-02-2015 kl. 03:39 skrev Catriona R: > > http://wow.joystiq.com/2015/01/30/wow-insider-is-logging-off/ > > Don't know if anyone else here read this site but it's been one of my > favourites for many years now, very sad to see it go. Oh well. I've never cared about the lore. but I have found loads of other useful information at wowinsider. Too bad theyre stopping. Do they also shut down their site? -- Peter T. <https://www.elitedangerous.com/>
Re: WoW Insider closing
Author: Catriona R
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:27
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:27
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:03:32 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum> wrote: >Den 01-02-2015 kl. 03:39 skrev Catriona R: >> >> http://wow.joystiq.com/2015/01/30/wow-insider-is-logging-off/ >> >> Don't know if anyone else here read this site but it's been one of my >> favourites for many years now, very sad to see it go. > >Oh well. I've never cared about the lore. but I have found loads of >other useful information at wowinsider. Too bad theyre stopping. Do >they also shut down their site? That I don't know as yet, it's down to AOL basically, depends if they want to keep the space open (and bandwidth in use) or not... who knows! I now have a folder with 595 lore articles in, so if it does go offline entirely, I can still read them whenever I want to. In all fairness the site was never the same since the cutbacks last year, most of my favourite columns got axed then, so it's less gutting than it would've been a year ago, but still very disappointing. Maybe the new project the writers are doing will fill the gap though, I sure hope so anyway.
Re: WoW Insider closing
Author: Catriona R
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:03
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:03
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WoW Insider is dead, long live BlizzardWatch: http://blizzardwatch.com/ - obviously, it very bare bones right now, but certainly looks like it has potential to be a good successor to WoW Insider, perhaps even better if they raise the funding to revive some of the columns lost in the cutbacks last year, and to add some more coverage of other Blizzard games. Fingers crossed :-)
Re: WoW Insider closing
Author: Peter T.
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 05:25
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 05:25
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Den 04-02-2015 kl. 00:03 skrev Catriona R: > > WoW Insider is dead, long live BlizzardWatch: > http://blizzardwatch.com/ - obviously, it very bare bones right now, > but certainly looks like it has potential to be a good successor to > WoW Insider, perhaps even better if they raise the funding to revive > some of the columns lost in the cutbacks last year, and to add some > more coverage of other Blizzard games. Fingers crossed :-) > Good. :) -- Peter T. <https://www.elitedangerous.com/>
Re: WoW Insider closing
Author: Catriona R
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:49
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:49
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On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 06:25:44 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum> wrote: >Den 04-02-2015 kl. 00:03 skrev Catriona R: >> >> WoW Insider is dead, long live BlizzardWatch: >> http://blizzardwatch.com/ - obviously, it very bare bones right now, >> but certainly looks like it has potential to be a good successor to >> WoW Insider, perhaps even better if they raise the funding to revive >> some of the columns lost in the cutbacks last year, and to add some >> more coverage of other Blizzard games. Fingers crossed :-) >> > >Good. :) Almost 2k "patrons" and all original funding goals met in under 24 hours, yeah, looks like funding won't be an issue for them at least in the beginning! Surprised it happened that fast but great news, so long as they can live up to everyone's hopes now I think they'll do well :-)
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