How much money does Blizzard make from WoWhead?

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Because if they don’t explain Sea-Polished Basalt. You need it for lava fishing. It reads:

“Should be abundant where lava meets the sea, such as Wild Coast. Bring to Tavio in Iskaara.”

If you look at your map, where’s the Wild Coast? It’s not on there. You know where the lava meets the sea, though? South of Obsidian Citadel. West of Scalecracker Keep. But guess what? You don’t find any of it there! It’s east of Wingrest Embassy, though. That part of the map where the lava is separated from the coast by a couple thousand yards.

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Blizzard doesn’t own Wowhead.

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I’m sorry what

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he’s saying a description was so inaccurate that there is an entire conspiracy between the descriptions being purposely bad and third party sources correcting the players who need help due to the bad descriptions. an entire underground economy steaming from Op failing to find an item…

basically a wide hyperbole.

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Blizzard makes absolutely no money from wowhead.

It is a fan website run by a dedicated group of employees, and wowhead, along with many other websites, is owned by the ZAM Network. ZAM also owns Thottbot, WowInterface, Tankspot etc and they are in turn owned by Tencent.

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About the same amount of money they make from your facebook profile, I’d imagine.

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As far as you know.

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Then why are they such garbage and describing where things really are in game?

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There’s no conspiracy here.

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Blizz ought to be thankful wowhead is around cause there to lazy to do any of their own work and without wowhead theyd probably lose more subs people have no patience in 2022 to just roam around forever trying to figure stuff out and blizz don’t pay a dime. Has a few things on wowhead been wrong sure but usually gets fixed so. Did you even read the comments cause someone probably gave the right info there.

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…no? They are literally a fansite.

…because what you quoted is what’s in-game.

Maybe try reading the comments. You know, the thing where most of the data from people playing that explains Blizzard’s bad descriptions comes from?

You know, the one that says:

Oh hey, I guess you know where the Wild Coast is now.

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some people really are lunatics

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someone figures it out for it to go into wowhead.

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That involved a trip to wowhead, did it not?

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And that’s a fansite. Not run by Blizzard.

If you have an issue with them not being descriptive enough in game, post feedback. Don’t post a nonsense thread like this.

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They save a lot of time tho, they just sent you to look stuff up on wowhead instead of explaining them better in-game.
Free work from fans = money saved by the company.

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It’s the nonsense that gets listened to these days, not the feedback.

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Op definitely went the wrong way about things, but I’m sure we can all relate to the frustration of needing to constantly rely on outside sources for things that aren’t adequately described or explained in game. Imo, Blizzard should be paying wowhead some type of kickback for doing so much of their work, not to mention the legends in the wowhead comments section that do most of the heavy lifting.

I guess in a way they are being paid because Blizzard funnels us over there so much and then wowhead makes cash out of our visits.