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Vault_News  Title: 0110011010
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Registered: 2005-10-18 12:53:17
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Original World of Warcraft Server Blade Auctions to Support Charity |
1up.com posted:
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World of Warcraft fans are some of the most rabid around, and the opportunity to own one of the original server blades that housed the game's many realms will be an exciting proposition for many of them. The opportunity to bid on one of these items should be good enough, but to make things even better, a worthy charity will be benefiting from the money they bring in.
About 2,000 original server blades will be auctioned off on eBay beginning on October 17. This will continue through November 14, with the net proceeds going to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
These servers are no longer in use; WoW's infrastructure has been upgraded since it first launched in 2004. They are HP ProLiant servers that were used to host hundreds of realms for North America and Europe. Each one comes inside a windowed case with the WoW logo and a plaque signed by the WoW development team.
"World of Warcraft realms are like the virtual neighborhoods of the game's community -- they contain the spaces where millions of players have made friendships, forged friendly rivalries, and created lasting memories," said Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime. "Each winner in this auction will own a small monument to those collective experiences. The best part is that this auction benefits a great charity doing tremendous work in helping children from the U.S. and around the world."
More details are available on eBay, where you can sign up for an email reminder and see which weeks specific realms will be auctioned off.
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PallyDog Title: WoW Vault Staff
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Ahem. Did I see a post somewhere mentioning fanatical fanbois? No? Nevermind then.
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Demorak  Posts: 300
Registered: 2009-1-16 11:20:55
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Why would you want something like this? 
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Hornet_MT  Posts: 103
Registered: 2002-8-16 11:16:25
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Demorak posted:
Why would you want something like this?
Actually, if you are in anyway interested in memorabillia, it is a great idea... I wouldn't buy that kind of thing to line someone's pockets, but given the contribution goes to charity it would allow me to buy something I want and contribute to a 'cause' (regardless as to whether it is a particularly close to my own interests).
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Demorak Posts: 300
Registered: 2009-1-16 11:20:55
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Hornet_MT posted:
Demorak posted:
Why would you want something like this?
Actually, if you are in anyway interested in memorabillia, it is a great idea... I wouldn't buy that kind of thing to line someone's pockets, but given the contribution goes to charity it would allow me to buy something I want and contribute to a 'cause' (regardless as to whether it is a particularly close to my own interests).
But it's like...........a hunk of metal with a WoW logo box around it.
I'm all for memorabilia, but I don't see a non-descriptive piece of metal very interesting. (just my opinion!)
Slam a badass figure in the box with the Dev signatures and now we're talking. 
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I think the point was, all the money goes to charity, I know that is a hard concept for people, but that is where a you take your money and give it to someone less fortunate, you are getting in return an old server blade, in the world of charity you don't have to get ANYTHING back, except the feeling that you have done a good thing. However if you are the techie type this would be a really cool peice of art to hang in your mancave, gameroom, garage bar, server room type area and you would get that warm an fuzzy knowing that you helped someone. I am sure they are going to auction off at more than I can afford so I will have to stick to my $20.00 donations to local charities.
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Spookysheep  Title: Lieker of Cheese
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Registered: 2002-1-9 06:49:19
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CowboyPhil posted:
I think the point was, all the money goes to charity, I know that is a hard concept for people, but that is where a you take your money and give it to someone less fortunate, you are getting in return an old server blade, in the world of charity you don't have to get ANYTHING back, except the feeling that you have done a good thing. However if you are the techie type this would be a really cool peice of art to hang in your mancave, gameroom, garage bar, server room type area and you would get that warm an fuzzy knowing that you helped someone. I am sure they are going to auction off at more than I can afford so I will have to stick to my $20.00 donations to local charities.
You need to seriously learn to read.
The net proceeds go to charity, not all.
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Ugh_Lancelot Title: Ooo...bouncy!
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Spookysheep posted:
CowboyPhil posted:
I think the point was, all the money goes to charity, I know that is a hard concept for people, but that is where a you take your money and give it to someone less fortunate, you are getting in return an old server blade, in the world of charity you don't have to get ANYTHING back, except the feeling that you have done a good thing. However if you are the techie type this would be a really cool peice of art to hang in your mancave, gameroom, garage bar, server room type area and you would get that warm an fuzzy knowing that you helped someone. I am sure they are going to auction off at more than I can afford so I will have to stick to my $20.00 donations to local charities.
You need to seriously learn to read.
The net proceeds go to charity, not all.
He's new here.
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NukeMage Posts: 346
Registered: 2002-4-7 16:58:45
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Date Posted:
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Money is still going to a charity that otherwise would of had less money going to it if they had not decided to auction the server blades off.
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Date Posted:
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1. I am not new here I have been on here for over 2 years, I just don't feel the need to post a reply to everything.
2. You are right is is just the net proceeds and not all, but that is still better than NONE going to charity and ALL of it going back into the coffers at Blizzard. I would like to see how much this does raise for charity. Not that is matters St. Judes is a very worthwhile cause so I am glad to see they are doing something even remotely "good" with any part of the proceeds.
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