Zam.com Q&AFollow

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I had no idea I was a premium member, but it would explain the flashy image in my signature, wouldn't it?

Never claimed that I was against the merge. Just said that I shook my head at those who tried to convince us that they weren't governed by IGE.

Yeah, we're the monkeys. Ask the zookeepers.

I'd say you're probably more of a meerkat, Pikko...

Ya gotta put your behind in your past!!

Yes, gotta support Chinese labor camps.

Used to be.

Someone up the thread was complaining about Zam.com not being active yet. So I looked at it (I hadn't really tried using it yet) and, at the bottom, is says:Affinity Media, eh? A Google for Affinity Media results in Affinity Media which looks like just a place-holder site. However, if you use the Google cache, you get to the real site.

Affinity Media says that it owns Allakhazam.com, PlayerAuctions, IGE, Thottbott, etc. It also states that the "Resources" and "eCommerce" divisions are independent and fully autonomous. So, not that I doubted, but the company line from Up On High is the same as from Alla.

The "About Us" section has a list of investment partners. I Googled them and they were uniformly unexciting investment companies that put money into start-ups and long term investments. Some American, some Asian from the looks of it. However, the Affinity Media management page says who the immediate players are. Most notably...In short, Alla's isn't owned by the same guys who also happen to own IGE, it is effectively controlled by the guy who created IGE with the financing of a bunch of boring investment companies and whatever money Brock & Co. put into the venture. I know much of this isn't really news but it's more than anyone here was copping to previously.

Edit: It seems that since my posting Affinity took down the linked pages. You can see screenshots of them
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Edited, Apr 8th 2007 11:01am by Jophiel

there's a reason why jophiel has liberal in his title, because he always comes up with the facts.

ZOMG GILSELLERS R TEH SUCK!!!!

TO ANSWER EVERYONE's QUESTIONS YES IGE OWNS Allakhazam. but why should we really care about it? it's not effecting us in any way we still have fun make jokes rate people down and up.

DID YOU KNOW THE MUFFINMAN!?

I guess gold farming isn't as profitable as the sheer bulk of Asians and Eastern Europeans chained to their computers would have you believe...I have no idea if this is accurate or not but I guess it'd fit in with Alla's promise of "knock your tinfoil hats off" news from a week or two back. Affinity Media's Google caches are all gone and the site now simply says:.

Edited, Apr 26th 2007 9:57am by Jophiel