Curse, WoW Interface and WoW Matrix drama

So it seems that once again i have to do the search for addons on 10 websites, and still might not have the most up to date addon.
Curse and WoWInterface have shake hands to eliminate one of the competitors : WoWMatrix

WowMatrix have been so far the greatest addon updater out there. Basically what he did is update all your addons from the author's website , but mostly from Curse and WoWInterface. Curse and WoW interface have complained about being leached on, and that Matrix are eating out their bandwidth, especially on the patch days, so they both locked out its access on their website.

Of course both parties say that they are holding the best intentions for user comunity, however none of them actually do something that will show that (other than stating it so).

My opinion on that is on one hand Curse and WoWInterface should shake hands and create something togheter (similar to what they already have) and make a sort of joint venture. On the other hand WoWMatrix could still keep the so called "unsupported" addons on their application but with link to Curse or WoWInterface, so user cand download it from there himself.

This basically is just a fight over the cookie. Matrix started to gain way to much popularity and they only show their "adds" on the application and it bite a big part of the player base onto it.
All three are making money on the 11.5 milion WOW playerbase, and i am sure none of them have player best interest at hearth, however i am inclined to believe Matrix side of the story rather than Curse & WoWInterface one.

Suicidal advertising

A while back WoW Insider wrote an article about some gold sellers . They wrote with dead gnomes i think, their website.

While, many gold sellers try to get the attention by spaming /s , /trade, /general annoying people and a while back there was /w random online player with this you can bet they draw the attention.

On a server i play (Daggerspine EU) they just came back, disturbing my lovely buyers from getting those awesome items i had for them on AH :)
The "art" is not finished yet on my server, but i am to tired to actually wait for it, i will check it in the morning if it is still there and update my post. Here is what is so far:

Which was first??

After a long break on deciding if i really want to actually make a blog on making gold on AH i decided that thats not the best way to look at it.

Still, i feel that some of my "experiences" must be shared, so here i am..

I was getting some bear with RL (and also WoW) friends, and let me tell you that we are tackling all the topics , from the weirdest to the hotest. This night we actually started talking about ideologies, and how the are all perfect in their way in theory, and from that we got to the point where we had this trouble getting to the same point. Which was first : Survival instinct or the selfishness (greedy).
While the term greedy and selfish is not equal , in my opinion being greedy = selfish while selfish =/= greedy.

There are a few cases to study here. One is when the resource in discussion is unlimited.
Unlimited is a relative thing. Universe might be unlimited in our eyes, but in somebody elses eyes it might be just a tiny part of the infinite alternate universes. The resources are of two types: Needed for survival, and luxury.
A luxury by definition is : an economic good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises; contrast with inferior good and normal good.
In case of needed for survival this is in WOW the gear you need to actually perform into an dungeon, and luxury are all the "petlike" items. So basically people will attempt to become more aggresive on items(goods) needed for survival.
However they become greedy rather when the item is of no use of survival, but rather a luxury. And the selfishness is an side effect of that. (i.e. the less for Onyxia at 80 the better)

The other part is when resource is limited. In WoW you can't see this often. You can see rather an incredibly rare thing like items received during festivals (as Brewfest or Hallowed) that are usefull for survival in raids. Just remember how many "ninjas" where shown during the Hallowed .

One other case in WoW when greed is shown at its best is pictured best in this following incident that happend long ago to some friends of mine.
One of them was lvl 60 rogue and he was boosting another friend of ours that was lvl 36 priest on some STV quests. At some point they invited an warrior in party because he was doing the same quest and the xp was better with another one of the same level (36). At some point the Green Tower droped. Of course the best one to use it was the Warrior, but would you let an occasion like this to get a free 250+ gold (in vanilla wow this was a lot) or would you give it to the warrior. Ofc my friends both needed it and won it and kicked the warrior out after.

Greed won over social skills, friendliness or anything else similar. And the freaking shield is only pixels in the end :)

I hope you enjoyed this post.

Have a great week,

Observ