Curse.com

  • Article
> [!VIDEO https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/videoplayer/embed/283b56d2-ac17-42ae-b8b1-b748e29c65fa]
How Curse.com makes an addon client for World of Warcraft

In 2004, Hubert Thieblot launched a simple website for the Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) community. Frustrated that online gamers had to navigate so many different websites to download add-ons for MMO games, such as World of Warcraft, Thieblot gathered all of the modules together on a single download portal.

In 2004, Hubert Thieblot launched a simple website for the Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) community. Frustrated that online gamers had to navigate so many different websites to download add-ons for MMO games, such as World of Warcraft, Thieblot gathered all of the modules together on a single download portal.

Traffic to the website grew exponentially, and within one year, Thieblot's company--Curse--was incorporated. Today, the organization has become an indispensible resource for more than 8 million active users who rely on Curse for game databases, community gaming hubs, wikis, and an industry-leading add-on updater.

 
Other stories

Windows Phone 7 at the Edge of Space



A team of researchers from Southampton University's ASTRA Projectrigged up a Windows Phone 7 to a helium filled meteorologicalballoon and sent it skywards. It travelled at 90mph to a height of18,237 meters (that's over 60,000 feet) then fell back to earth tobe successfully recovered in a flight that lasted 1 hour and 16minutes.

Windows Phone 7 at the Edge of Space



ChronoRace electronically times competitors in sporting events and publishes the results on its website. But during large competitions, its web servers could not cope with the high volume of traffic. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner RealDolmen, ChronoRace migrated to Windows Azure cloud services. The site now easily meets sudden peaks in demand and makes results available online immediately, enhancing the customer experience.

Chronorace Offers Athletes Seamless Access to Race Results