Source: NY times

December 9th

An article by David Barboza delves into the shocking truth about World of Warcraft in China. Isolated warehouses where workers are paid 75$ a month to play 12 hour shifts in WoW, with strict quotas. WoW has it's own economy. Their gold prices on eBay vary by the month. It is a moneymaking business. The article is quite long, and will not be posted here, but i encourage each and every user to read it throroughly, particularly the WoW players.

Click the comments link above to see the article.

I heard that Draco can make a 2 gig zip file with all the resources that were hosted there. (Draco, please PM me a link to that 2 gig zip so i can get it)
The problem is now the additional 2 gig of webspace required for those resources.
I can in no way afford the purchase of additional webspace of 2 gig.
So even after Draco sent me a link to the 2 gig file I cannt put it on the wc3sear.ch server yet...
I have to watch for either companies donating webspace or need donations from the community to keep those resources going.

Normally I would be taking this time to celebrate our 3 millionth hit, which will occure probably within an hour...however, an unfortunate event has come upon us.

As you may or may not know, WC3campaigns hosted a large bulk of our resource archive on their server. With the death of WC3campaigns, all those files were lost. This may constitute a large chunk of our resources.

So please, everyone, take some time to check your uploaded works to see if they can still be downloaded. If they can not, use the update feature to resubmit your work. (you do not have to submit anything from scratch...simply using the update feature will put the updated file on our server and overwrite the broken link...the exception being models and oversized maps/campaigns- those will need to be re-submitted from scratch if their links are broken).

In a few weeks we will begin purging all the broken link resources (well, the resources are already gone, we will just be removing the dead links/pages). If yours work is among those deleted, IT IS NOT BECAUSE YOU BROKE ANY RULES OR YOUR RESOURCE VIOLATED ANY SUBMISSION CRITIERIA! The file is simply no longer on our server.

How to Update:
-Click on the "Add/Update resource" Link on the upper right of this page
-Select a catagory (maps/skins/models ect...)
-Click on the icon/image of whatever resource you have submitted (like the minimap of a map you uploaded)
-Browse for your file, then hit "re-submit map/skin/icon ect"

I got an email from my ISP. They say the site will be even faster

Dear Rasmus Abrahamsen,

SiteGround has successfully transfered hiveworkshop.com from the old server clev9.com to a new super-fast Intel Dual Xeon machine.

IMPORTANT:
If you access your account(s) by IP, please make sure you are using the NEW IP: 207.218.208.3

Your account has not experienced any downtime or data loss due to that transfer. It is currently running on the new server.


Best regards,

The SiteGround Team
[email protected]
http://www.siteground.com

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I have released a preview for my campaign the battle for Middle Earth, its pretty short and I will make a longer and better one when its gets closer to the release date.
The Preview can be found here: http://hiveworkshop.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=884