Blizzard is going through eBay 2000 server blades auction, which right after the introduction of the World of Warcraft and the servers of the developer were. The proceeds from the auction will go to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
On 17 October, Blizzard Entertainment with the auction of 2000 HP BladeSystem server blades. In 2005, in the early days of World of Warcraft, the successful mmog from the developer on these blades hosted. The auction is via eBay and runs until 14 november, with each week a new group of blades is offered for sale. On the 2000 blades were 500 European and North American WoW servers hosted. Blizzard sets the auction proceeds available to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which researches cancer and other deadly childhood illnesses.
Who a server purchase, which will be sent to you in a special housing with a transparent front, with the logo of World of Warcraft. In the server there is a plaque with signatures of members of the WoW development team. Blizzard makes it possible to provide the server blades of a specific WoW server, so that interested parties a blade can buy which they themselves have played. On the eBay page there is a list of the WoW realms that the server blades to be sold. Anyone who’s interested, via e-mail to be notified when the sale of the blades begins. Blizzard has also 2000 server blades and not enough to the game to host. In 2009, the studio announced that there 13.500 blades were needed to the game to keep it going.
