Allakhazam - What happened?

[Barkle]

WoWHead, Thottbot and Allakhazam are all owned by the same company. The people who own that company also own gold selling companies. Technically, they are not owned by gold sellers, just as technically ESPN is not owned by A B C. However, you still see lots of cross promotion. Face it, all our DB are belong to gold sellers.

[Cynic]

Seems to be up again (for the moment.) Wooh, time to argue with Jenova some more!

[Arbul]

Originally Posted by Liliath

I use WoWHead for looking stuff up as it is, it's very intuitive, and I rely heavily on WoWWiki too. It's just the insane and hectic atmosphere there I miss xD

Barrens chat ftw?

[jeprscreprs]

I barely use that site these days, with the exception of the occasional market avg price on some things for the AH. Since I use the 'questhelper' addon, I have no need to minimize the game.

[mavric240]

Originally Posted by Pernicious

Wowdb.com (fantastic new site). I'd highly suggest sticking to those two sites.

Wowdb great site Pernicious.

[KJ]

Originally Posted by Pernicious

From what I remember, Allakhazam was bought by gold farmers. I wouldn't ever use that site anyways as it is a way of promoting and making them money. I think i heard the same about Thottbot too actually.

Wowhead isn't run by them, nor is Wowdb.com (fantastic new site). I'd highly suggest sticking to those two sites.

Agreed on wowdb. Been using it alot and watching it grow. I am becoming more and more pleased with it everyday. Still isn't as "Complete" as the others but missing quests or etc are uncommon enough to overlook it being a "Problem"

[jeprscreprs]

Originally Posted by Pernicious

Wowhead isn't run by them, nor is Wowdb.com (fantastic new site). I'd highly suggest sticking to those two sites.

This is right on, I might check out ole thottbot from time to time though.

[Rleab]

Originally Posted by jeprscreprs

This is right on, I might check out ole thottbot from time to time though.

Originally Posted by wowhead.com

Wowhead soon joined IGN's Vault Network, as a hosted fansite. But in September of 2006, it became clear the Wowhead needed more room to grow. Tim (Evilseed) came on board to help the site to develop as a business, and Wowhead made the leap from IGN's servers to its own. The website's following continued to grow, and in June of 2007, Wowhead made the decision to join the ZAM Network, along with other well-known MMO sites Thottbot, Allakhazam, MMOInterface, and Online Gaming Radio.

From Wowhead's own "About us" page. Allakhazam used to be affiliated (not owned) with a gold selling site, if I remember correctly they were bought out by a company that also owned gold selling sites. They no longer are owned by that company, Welcome to ZAM Network the current owner as you can see does not own a gold selling site. Also as you can see they own Thottbot.

EDIT: Gah can't get it to link as a URL, scroll over it to see the url in bottom left hand corner or goto wowhead's about us page is you are distrusting of keyloggers.

[Dignam]

Wow, never knew that about Thottbott and Allakhazam. Guess I'll start using Wowdb instead.

[mcgee84]

Wowhead keeps getting better (Have you -seen- all the filters and stat weighting you can do?!), and it seems like there's enough bad publicity about gold selling that their owners actually have moved out of the business.