Youplayorwepay Is The World'S First And Only Free Third Party Compensation Site For World Of Warcraft™ Players

To All Current and Future Members of YPOWP,

We wanted to personally write a letter to everyone explaining our reasoning for creating YPOWP and why we aim to help the WoW community as a whole.  We also want to get rid of any doubts people might have about us being scammers.   

To start out both MIlos and I have been playing Blizzard® games for over 10 years.  Starcraft®, Diablo®/Diablo® 2, Warcraft® 1, 2, 3, World of Warcraft™ (WoW) all seem to have two things in common, they are all unbelievably addictive games and they all have had problems with online game play.  There was lag and maphack with Starcraft, lag and duped items with Diablo and Warcraft 3 was simply too slow.  Now with WoW, an almost perfect MMORPG game, we have horrible waiting times and far too many realm issues for a game we are all paying $15 dollars a month for.   There have always been a large group of people in the WoW community that shouted angrily for the bad service (we among them) but they were greatly outnumber by the people willing to stand for the lag and outages. 

Last year we were just brain storming and we came out with the idea of compensating people for downtime.  We didn’t know exactly how to go about doing it so we first started gathering data and then we came up with the idea of charging a fee for compensation.  We came up with a formula that calculated how to charge a fee based on the realm and characters level and then came up with another formula that calculated how much compensation will be.   We decided to go with that plan thinking eventually we’d move to ad based revenue so that fees are no longer necessary.   Well our first week of opening we generated a ton of press about our site but unfortunately a lot of it was bad press; many sites called us an “insurance” company, scammers and data fishers.  Although we had an interview with Wowinsider trying to explain our position it was unsuccessful.  So we decided to take down the site and start over. 

We wanted to keep the core of the site intact which was to compensate players for downtime but we wanted to get the thought of us being an “insurance” company out of people’s heads and also we needed a way to make sure people won’t think of us as scammers.  We felt the only way to do those things was to offer our service of compensating for downtime for free as well as informing players not to use their WoW account password when registering with YPOWP.  We accelerated our plan of becoming an ad based revenue site so that we are able to use the money collected to compensate.   That is where YPOWP is today, a free service for all WoW players. 

Our concept is very simple, whatever we collect we give back to the community and the only money we take is what is needed to keep the site running.  We have a counter on the front page showing how much we collected and based on that we estimate the number of compensation spots (how many players we can compensate based on the realms average down times) for the following month.   The compensation spots will be open on the first of every month and is based on a first come first serve concept.  After the compensation spots are filled, players will have to wait until the next month to sign up.  We have implemented a contest system for players that didn’t get compensation spots and a portion of the revenue we collect every month will go to contest only. 

We are introducing something that has never been done before and to be honest we don't know how far we will get, but we will try our best in providing our service. We feel with a free compensating service for Wow players will ensure more players join or stick with WoW.  News of our site has spread worldwide from the US to Germany Russia, France, UK, and China and we hope it continues to spread.  If you're interested in more information, please check out our FAQ page and our Forum.

We wish you the best online gaming experience!

Sincerely, George and Milos