Like a phoenix rising from the ashes (well, in the process of converting ashes into an egg, really,) WoW Insider, one of the most popular WoW websites that sadly was axed by AOL, is now going independent!
What was once WoW Insider will now be Blizzard Watch (presumably the name is there to deflect all the complaints about reporting on other Blizzard games.) The new site was announced today, and a Patreon campaign was created to support it. Their initial goal is $8000 a month to pay for the bare-bones staff needed to run the site, of which at the time of this post they have about 5000 (and given that it's been up for only a couple hours, I believe, that's not bad!) Their "stretch goals" (I don't know if that counts for Patreon like it does for Kickstarter) include $9000, at which point they'll try to bring back the class columnists, and at 10k, they'll try to make them weekly features again.
In the time I've written this post, they've gotten up to 6k of their 8k goal, so I have high hopes that we'll be seeing our old favorite site with a new name returning to glory.
Check out that Patreon link (<---or the one right there) if you'd like to contribute and help get them back up and running.
UPDATE: This evening Blizzard Watch hit its initial $8000 goal, meaning that WoW Insider will truly be reborn. Here's hoping they hit their stretch goals so we can see class columns again.
UPDATE 2: As of the next morning, they've hit their $10k goal.
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