Darth Hater Joins Curse Network



Darth Hater is pleased to announce we joined the Curse Network. We created Darth Hater in 2009 with the intention of providing the Star Wars: The Old Republic community with the best possible game resource. This fundamental goal continues to be the driving factor behind all of our work, from convention coverage to community interaction. For over two years now, you, the Darth Hater community, supported our efforts by reading our articles, crowd sourcing our dissections, listening to our podcasts, and telling us what you think in our comments and forums. In response to your dedication, we want to do more.

By working with Curse, we will provide the community with the world-class technology that we always hoped we could. Whether it is high quality in-game addons or robust out of game features and support, Curse is a well-known and respected entity in the MMO space. Additionally, their website support team will allow us to focus on creating the content you enjoy without being bogged down by the headaches of website management. Gaining access to their experience and expertise, we will be able to realize our goal of producing the best one stop shop for SWTOR players across the globe.

As a personal note for all of our fans, we want to reassure you that the core values and personnel that makes Darth Hater what it is will not change. Expect to get a continuing dose of Sado and the entire Darth Hater crew leading up to and following the launch of The Old Republic. We know what you love about Darth Hater and we promise that it is only going to get better.

Update 9.3.11: Curse also made an announcement.

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  • Spice Runner
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    #30 heybarn Posted 9/2/2011 10:05:00 PM
    Good luck with the new marriage DH :-D
  • Dark Councilor
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    #29 RogueJedi86 Posted 9/2/2011 10:04:30 PM
    (Darth) Hate to be a dissenter, but I'm not the biggest Curse fan. I look at MMO-Champion's bluetracker and stuff, but Curse seems like it's gotten too big. They shut down World of Raids after buying MMO-Champion(which I preferred over MMO-C), and made their own WoW Wiki competitor, neither of which flew well with me.

    It won't affect DH directly for the near future I'm sure, but I miss the days when DH was its own entity. I imagine this will mean some (positive) changes to the website that were less possible as independents, but I'm sure you'll tell us about that in time.
  • Nerf Herder
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    #32 SniperCT Posted 9/2/2011 10:40:24 PM
    If you're referring to wowpedia, wowpedia was (basically) a fork from wowwiki due to some changes wikia introduced that broke a lot of features. Blizzard routinely uses wowpedia now themselves.
  • Dark Councilor
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    #35 RogueJedi86 Posted 9/2/2011 10:47:37 PM
    Yeah but no other wiki moved from wikia, so evidently it was just a problem WoWWiki's admins in particular had. There wasn't a mass exodus from the Final Fantasy Wiki or Mass Effect Wiki or Star Wars Wiki or any of them. And they started WoWPedia by copying the entire WoW Wiki over in the process, which seemed to be ripping off WoWWiki without doing the work themselves. Like a midget standing on the shoulders of a giant and calling themselves tall.
  • Nerf Herder
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    #33 Raeli Posted 9/2/2011 10:46:04 PM
    From my understanding Wikia, white hosts WoW Wiki was putting strict enforcements on the layout of their website, and also screwing with the layout of pages by forcing advertisements to be randomly placed all over. The Wow Wiki admins didn't like this and they approached Curse themselves - not the other way around, so Wowpedia was born of the main people involved in WoW Wiki due to Wikia being, for lack of a better term, pricks.

    World of Raids got shut down because it was just no where near as popular, from my understanding, it's creator or one of the main contributors to it left and made WoW Raid (which also disappeared into oblivion), but either way, it couldn't compete with MMO Champion, and really, what's the point of them running both? It had been starting to get stale for a while, and didn't really offer anything different than MMO Champion either, except with a smaller audience there were seemingly less trolls on the forums.

    This should help to increase traffic for DH, and possibly raise interest for SWTOR too, so it's all good as far as I'm concerned.
  • Nerf Herder
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    #73 Wynthyst Posted 9/4/2011 6:25:06 PM
    I can tell you that dozens of wikis forked off Wikia when this happened, not just WoWpedia. So wherever you are getting your information from, you should do a little more research first. It was the WoWWiki administrators/community that chose to move, and it was their content to take with them wherever they wished to go, since it had been their work that created it in the first place. If anyone was ripped off, it was them, by Wikia who would not allow them to remove the data, only copy it.
  • Dark Councilor
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    #83 RogueJedi86 Posted 9/6/2011 10:42:48 AM
    When the admins left, they didn't just take the information from their own edit histories, they copied the entire wiki. WoWWiki wasn't 100% entirely the work of a few admins. That's the joy of wikis, it puts the power of information in the hands of the masses instead of a select few. But those select few copied the work of all on the site, not just their own work. Given that, there'd be no ripping off by not deleting the entire wiki when a few admins left.

    WoWWiki is the only wiki I frequent that got a spin-off outside the wikia network. Dozens of wikis apparently forked off Wikia, but not the Avatar: The Last Airbender, Bleach, Borderlands, Final Fantasy, Half-Life/Portal, Left 4 Dead, Mass Effect, Spore, or Star Wars wikis. I think that's all the wikis I frequent(or frequented in the past), and only WoWWiki had a problem and chose to fork away.
  • Nerf Herder
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    #85 Wynthyst Posted 9/6/2011 11:19:52 PM
    Agreed, but there was lengthy discussion in which the community was urged to participate in regarding the fork, and the vast majority of those who participated agreed with the move. It also wasn't just a "few admins" that made the move. And it was the Admins and Community that approached Curse, not the other way around, Curse simply provided them a place to go. Personally I think that with Curse's ties to Blizzard it has helped to strengthen the WoW community in general to have WoWpedia hosted together with the rest of Curse's WoW support sites.

    I'm hoping that the Darth Hater community will embrace this partnership and help make the Curse network of SWTOR sites the best on the internet.
  • Nerf Herder
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    #26 Slythe75 Posted 9/2/2011 9:42:46 PM
    Just for the fact this might mean you will champoin addons in ToR, i'm not 100% excited, but am glad your hard work is paying off, hope it makes sense :)
  • Nerf Herder
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    #24 darthuser6145 Posted 9/2/2011 9:34:52 PM
    Nice. Gratz Haters!
  • Nerf Herder
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    #22 SelSel Posted 9/2/2011 9:23:23 PM
    Cursified in 4 months

    ads everywhere
  • Nerf Herder
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    #23 darthuser833 Posted 9/2/2011 9:26:56 PM
    Adblock FTW!
  • Nerf Herder
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    #21 Roc1138 Posted 9/2/2011 9:19:53 PM
    Congrats guys and hopefully you get some cool benefits out of this.
    Guess I have a reason to go back to Curse since I quit playing WoW.
  • Nerf Herder
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    #20 darthuser6143 Posted 9/2/2011 9:18:03 PM
    Very cool, Congratulations DH and I can't wait to start playing this game
  • Dark Councilor
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    #17 Kraxis Posted 9/2/2011 9:09:20 PM
    Not to sound negative, as I find Curse to be a lot more positive than negative, but it seems they do paw in all the more popular MMO sites. I just hope they retain all their old ideals. For DH, I'm happy for you and this might mean even better coverage etc, which is good for us too, so I'm happy for us as well. :D
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