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Introducing the Wowhead Subscription Program

posted 2014/06/27 at 1:32 PM by perculia

$29.99 if you pay for a yearSUBSCRIBE NOW!Patron Perks

No Ads

Our Patrons don’t see ads on Wowhead and other ZAM sites. Less distraction means more room for content.

Get a better experience and help support the sites you love.

Special Forum Privileges

As a Patron, you'll have special forum privileges including a patron color for forum posts and your username on forum listviews. You'll have the ability to create polls on new forum threads and choose a custom forum avatar, which comes with several fancy patron-only borders.

Bag Scanner Tool

When you become a Patron you'll get access to the Bag Scanner tool, which displays all items in your bags, void storage and guild bank. Keep track of your items without having to log into WoW!

Items are also tracked across search results, quick facts, and tooltips.

Images in Search Results

We've upgraded search results for our Patrons to include access to browse tooltips with attached image thumbnails, allowing you to more easily scan the results.

Enable the "Show screenshots on tooltips" checkbox to see these changes.

More Patron Perks

Tired of Captchas? As a patron you'll never see that pesky box again.
Get increased character limits for your comments and forum posts.
Gain access to a special email address for input on site features and direction
Sport a special Patron badge for your user page

Patrons have access to ZAM.com, Allakhazam and WoWInterface and all the Patron features found there. Keep your eyes open because we have more network-wide perks coming soon!

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Comment by 3Z3K13L08That's odd, my comment asking if more perks will be added for this cost was deleted. I wonder how that happened Wowhead? Why would that be?Comment by NulgarThat's odd, my comment if more perks will be added for this cost was deleted. I wonder how that happened Wowhead?Comment by 3Z3K13L08That's odd, my comment if more perks will be added for this cost was deleted. I wonder how that happened Wowhead?Comment by perculiaThat's odd, my comment if more perks will be added for this cost was deleted. I wonder how that happened Wowhead?Comment by 3Z3K13L08
It was a legitimate question. I'm happy to sub but if you get a bit more as I don't have a disposable income. They're not making it easy for themselves if they really did delete it.Comment by perculiaWe're looking into adding perks on other ZAM Network sites like Lolking. We did add a lot of perks over the original Wowhead Premium--the Bag Scanner tool, special forum colors, images on tooltips to name a few. The image perk is a good example--it would be prohibitively expensive for us to do so for free, but having Patron accounts lets us offer this feature to our users.Comment by MaerlimI'd sign if we got promotional beta invites.Comment by perculiaI'd sign if we got promotional beta invites.Comment by rodalphoI wish sites would price subscriptions more reasonably. Netflix is $8/month and it streams unlimited HD video! The value proposition is difficult to stomach.

I understand why so many sites choose to price this way. The vast majority of people won't pay anything no matter what, and of the tiny fraction that will pay, most of those don't care about the difference between $1 and $5/month. But I do.Comment by woofpuppyAsk Mr Robot is $12 per year. I would happily pay that much to Wowhead but not $60.Comment by perculiaFrom the article:

Subscribing to Wowhead is only $4.99 per month or $29.99 if you pay for a year.

It works out to about $2.50 monthly if you pay for a year.Comment by 3Z3K13L08Ask Mr Robot is $12 per year. I would happily pay that much to Wowhead but not $60.Comment by rodalphoFacebook generates $5.18 in advertising revenue per user per year. I'd be surprised if Zam sites produced 10% of that. That's what I was getting at in my post; these subscription fees really aren't about "paying your way". They're priced assuming 99%+ of users won't subscribe. And they're almost certainly right!Comment by HoddieIf you wanted a stampede of new subscribers you should have offered a premium-only landing page with just the search box :DComment by BalgairI've always thought a lower priced option which ONLY gets rid of the ads would be useful. I'd happily pay £10 a year for adfree Wowhead, but the current price is just too high for me; I'm not rich, so I have to look carefully at how much I spend on things which can be done entirely for free, albeit in a manner which does not help the site. I'd like to help the site, but at a lower price. The rest of the perks don't interest me in the slightest, so a slimmed-down budget option would be ideal for me.Comment by Fishballs77I check this site everyday I wake up still breathing, it's an amazing site, clean organized and easy to read even with ads. But $5 a month, is just a little excessive. $20 - $30 year, or $60 a life time and I'm sold! I've never even registered to this site until I saw this post. Love the site, always have. Best of luck with your subs wowhead, seriously.Comment by perculiaThe yearly sub option is $29.99--it's savings over the monthly amount. It seems a few people missed that in our announcement who would be cool with $30 vs $60, so I went back and made it red bold :)Comment by JkpmanFacebook generates $5.18 in advertising revenue per user per year. I'd be surprised if Zam sites produced 10% of that. That's what I was getting at in my post; these subscription fees really aren't about "paying your way". They're priced assuming 99%+ of users won't subscribe. And they're almost certainly right!Comment by StarlinI'm trying to sign up for Patron but all the links do is redirect to my Zam profile.

Edit: I found a working link using the Zam account menu dropdown.

Edit2: That upgraded me to Zam premium, but I still see the Upgrade Available links all over Wowhead.

Edit3: Got it all figured out. I hadn't unified my WH and Zam accounts. I'm a Wowhead Patron now. WOO!Comment by melinerunen Existing Wowhead Premium members automatically become Subscribers and payment will not be affected.

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