jrbuddha
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Amazon Buys Curse gaming.
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khorum
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Just about everything. They own mmo-champion, diablofans etc. They raised like 60 million in VC funding and used that fatten themselves up for a big buyout like this.
Oddly enough, Twitch prolly wants them most for their "unionforgamers" content creator thing.
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They also own a lot of wikis for a lot of popular games because they own gamepedia. I know recently they fired the guy who was working on the Path of Exile wiki or some shit, and first thing they did was slap some fucking massive ads. I don't mean like a big banner, but like a gigantic popup that covers half the right side of the screen kind of shit. Obviously it still gets blocked by adblock, but yeah fuck Curse. They also ran a fairly popular voip program some years ago on LoL, but not sure if that's still a thing or if Discord took over. It had borderline functions for LoL specifically, like ultimate timer tracking or blue/red buff spawn time or whatever the fuck and there was some shit happening at some point as far as I remember.
Can't say if it's a good or bad thing they're getting bought by Amazon, although I think it probably can't be much worse unless Amazon wants to alienate a bunch of people(by like making the ads so you can't view the pages when they're blocked).
Can't say if it's a good or bad thing they're getting bought by Amazon, although I think it probably can't be much worse unless Amazon wants to alienate a bunch of people(by like making the ads so you can't view the pages when they're blocked).
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This is the girlfriend of the owner/former owner of Curse
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tyen
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Req used to host: MMOChampnion, ElitistJerks, MTG Salvation, Nihilum, and a few other really fucking good internet properties. I grew the Uberguilds network from just FoH, to like 100 different websites, these were some of them.
Curse bought all of them.
We ran into this Curse faggot many times, he is a shithead. "Here is 50,000, let me destroy your community."
I still think Curse/MMORPG.com etc are morons.
You see how much a website is making in advertising. You offer them the sum of their advertising + $500 every month to control their ads. They agree, you make a retarded amount more than they ever could because of your advertising skills.
Thats it. You don't have to buy these websites, you don't have to shit on their community. You just give them fucking banners. Give them a set amount of $ every month, and take the rest.
You give me an A+ Advertising guy, i'll give you fucking gaming sites. That's for goddamn sure.
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tyen
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lol wat, no.
The person hosting and running your ads no longer gets to host or run your ads when another company purchases it and now owns it.
Our ceo (gamerDNA) was a pile of dicks anyway. He didn't give a fuck about our 10 million unique visitors/mo gaming network that we built from scratch...even though he acquired our uberguild business.
He (gamerdna ceo) used our numbers just to scam his own investors to get more money.
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tyen
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One website i ran into while doing that, Serebii. Biggest fucking pokemon website in the world. I talked to the kid, he made $2,500 in advertising every month. for 3 million unique visitors.
That is absolutely absurd, any competent professional ad guy can make like 5-10k/mo off this, with ease.
I offered the kid 3 grand every month and he would never have to worry about his ads ever again.
He was 19 and had to ask his fucking mom, and she said no.
Extremely pissed off times dealing with competition idiots, ceo idiot, and community leader idiots. Rustled my jimmies hard, but I did a fucking ridic good job.
Below was our growth pre-10mil uniques
Then after the company went bankrupt, fired everyone, the new owners of the company knew where the value was, and increased it from 10mil to 20mil. Effectively doubling it and making it one of the top 10 internet properties for online gaming.
That is absolutely absurd, any competent professional ad guy can make like 5-10k/mo off this, with ease.
I offered the kid 3 grand every month and he would never have to worry about his ads ever again.
He was 19 and had to ask his fucking mom, and she said no.
Extremely pissed off times dealing with competition idiots, ceo idiot, and community leader idiots. Rustled my jimmies hard, but I did a fucking ridic good job.
Below was our growth pre-10mil uniques
Then after the company went bankrupt, fired everyone, the new owners of the company knew where the value was, and increased it from 10mil to 20mil. Effectively doubling it and making it one of the top 10 internet properties for online gaming.
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