WoWdetox.com Has Found A Buyer
As many of my readers know already I quit World of Warcraft a little over a year ago. When I quit a lot of people from my guild contacted me asking why I decided to leave the game. They too were fed up with the endless grinds, the drama, the immaturity and having to take days to get anything done.
They were so expressive to me in secret but kept their concerns very quiet before when we played together. You see they didn’t want to let any of their guild members down despite disliking the game more and more every day.
So I created wowdetox.com so that anyone could anonymously write their reasons for quitting the game. The first day I had about 20 posts. The second I had 400. The third I had over 900. Digg.com picked it up, so did slashdot, reddit and numerous guild web sites. My server kept up with the demand which was rather amazing to me.
In the last month as I was approaching 20000 posts I started receiving offers from marketers, gold selling companies and numerous other anonymous people but none would guarantee that the site would keep on going except one entrepreneur from Alberta. He can use the media attention the site gets to promote his online marketing company. I find this to be a smart way to leverage the site, something as a programmer I found difficult to do.
I’m quite glad the site is now in good hands and it leaves me more time and funds for future projects.
If someone would have told me a year ago that launching a site about World of Warcraft Addiction would generate so much traffic and make money I would have laughed at them. Turns out even trying to help out people can make you money. I love the internet.
on August 9th, 2007 at 11:12 am
That’s really impressive. I never though it would have went that far.