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Insider Trader: How to profit with tailoring
by WoW.com on May.25, 2010, under disenchanting, enchanting, featured, gold, gold-guide, gold-making, gold-making-guide, guide, profession-guide, profit, tailoring, wow-craft, wow-craftables, wow-crafting, wow-crafting-guide, wow-gold, wow-gold-making, wow-guide, wow-items, wow-make, wow-professions
Tradeskills are the best tools for making in game gold. Every single profession can be made profitable. Insider Trader, when Basil writes it, is where you can turn to find tips and tricks to using professions in a profitable manner. That or rants about arrows. Really, mostly rants. Honestly, I’m still trying to figure out where the blurry line between Insider Trader and Gold Capped is, let alone what direction it runs. Have something to say to Basil? Feel free to email him! He strongly encourages all mail. Even the angry letters! He’ll read those out loud dramatically to amuse his friends.
Tailoring is not the profession most people think of when they think of gold making. Most people will find inscription, enchanting and jewelcrafting are the big money-makers, but what do you do if that’s not the path you’ve chosen?
When you select your profession, there are a lot of reasons to choose one over another. Tailoring has a cool mount and some awesome end game bonuses. If you’ve taken it for these, rest assured that you can still find a niche in the marketplace if you want to make money with it.
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Filed under: Economy, Insider Trader (Professions)
Insider Trader: How to profit with tailoring originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 24 May 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Gold Capped: Using blacksmithing to make gold on the auction house
by WoW.com on Feb.20, 2010, under AuctionHouse, addon, addons, auction-house, auctioneer, blacksmith, blacksmithing, buy, commodities, farmers, gold, lilsparky, long-tail, profit, sell, tipping, ui, user-interface
Want to get Gold Capped? This column will show you how, and is written by Basil “Euripides” Berntsen, also of outdps.com, the hunting party podcast, and the call to auction podcast.
Blacksmithing is a crafting profession that has made me a lot of money. Today, we’ll talk about how you can use blacksmithing as something more than a couple of extra gem slots for your main, and actually make gold! Many people with crafting skills invariably have tried linking their profession in trade and saying “tips appreciated.” Has that worked for you? Me either. If you want to make money with any crafting skill, the true profits are from acquiring the mats yourself, crafting, and selling your wares over the long term. As I mentioned in my previous post, the default UI won’t cut it for our purposes, so let’s get cracking and set you up with a proper crafting UI.
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Gold Capped: Using blacksmithing to make gold on the auction house originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Activision-Blizzard makes lots of money, no update on Blizzard earnings
by Alex Ziebart on Nov.06, 2009, under activision, activision-blizzard, call-of-duty, china, delay, earning, earnings, financial, guitar-hero, holiday-season, money, noncombat-pets, online, profit, release, retail, starcraft-2, troubles
Activision-Blizzard has released their third-quarter numbers for the financial year of 2009, and as you might expect for the company in charge of Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and World of Warcraft, business is brisk. They were expecting to bring in around $700 million, and ended up pulling in around $50 million more than that. It’s good, we guess, to be the king.
Blizzard, in particular, laid claim to three of the top five selling PC games in North America on the good side, and on the bad side, Activision acknowledges in the press release that they’re happy to have WoW back online in China, but a little worried about the troubles it’s seen over there lately.
Strangely enough, there is no information in the earnings about how much money World of Warcraft has pulled in for the company, or any updates about subscriber numbers. Usually, that gets at least a mention, so maybe, with subscribers certainly down in China, Activision-Blizzard wants to keep that under their hat for now.
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Filed under: Items, Blizzard, News items, Making money
Activision-Blizzard makes lots of money, no update on Blizzard earnings originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wikia turns a profit, thanks in part to WoWWiki
by Alex Ziebart on Sep.11, 2009, under 70000, cooking-wiki, making-money, money, pages, profit, reports, twilight, user-generated-content, wall-street-journal, wiki, wikia, world-of-warcraft, wowwiki
Wikia has been doing a little bit of press lately — they’re the for-profit company that has spun off of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation that runs the huge Wikipedia website. Wikia has announced, as reported in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, that they’ve hit profit early. While they didn’t expect to actually make any money running ads next to user-generated content until next year, they’ve actually made some money this year already. They credit the growth of all of their miniwiki sites, which has expanded greatly over the last year.
So why are we reporting all of this here? You may have already guessed: one of their largest sites, if not the largest, is the World of Warcraft-related wiki, WoWWiki (which we definitely read and use here at WoW.com all the time). WoWWiki is mentioned in a few reports as having 70,000 pages (almost 1/3 more than the next-biggest site in the network, a cooking wiki). In fact, at least one reports credits WoWWiki, along with the Twilight-related wiki, for the growth entirely. We’re not sure how much of a part they actually played in the new reported profits, but they are definitely growing, and are a terrific resource for those of us in the WoW community.
Filed under: Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Lore, NPCs, Making money
Wikia turns a profit, thanks in part to WoWWiki originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Insider Trader: Progressive Professions
by Alex Ziebart on Aug.08, 2009, under PvP-gear, achievements, deathchill-cloak, featured, gold-guide, gold-making-guide, guide, loremaster-of-northrend, northrend-dungeonmaster, profession-dailies, profession-guide, profit, progression, pvp, titles, wispcloak, wow-craft, wow-craftables, wow-crafting, wow-crafting-guide, wow-gold, wow-gold-making, wow-guide, wow-items, wow-make, wow-professions
Insider Trader is your inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products.
Professions in The World of Warcraft are one of the many endeavors in which players can invest their time and efforts. Despite the fact that most players do indeed level them, and the fact that there is quite a bit of interest in them, people are often left questioning their value at the end of the day.
Profitability and cost to level are two of the most frequent complaints against their chosen professions, but today I would like you to consider another reason: boredom.
It is not that the professions themselves are inherently boring. It is more that, in a game where there are always new things to collect, new reasons to PvP or run raid content, new dailies and new factions, professions just can’t compete. Most can be leveled in an hour or two at the Auction House, and once this has been achieved, the key items made, and the buffs applied to your gear, what else is there?
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Insider Trader: Progressive Professions originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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