Curse is the largest independent Massively Multiplayer Online Game site in the world. It has over 7.5 million monthly unique visitors, over 1.6 million active Curse client users, and 250 million monthly page views, and is profitable, producing more than $3 million in revenue in 2009.
The company was founded by Hubert Thieblot in 2005. Thieblot’s goal for the company is “to provide gamers with an unmatched suite of tools designed to meet their every need. Curse is a centralized hub for everything MMO - a starting point that empowers gamers in a way no other service can.”
Curse captures – and holds - the Massively Multiplayer Online gaming community’s attention by offering wikis, databases, add-on downloads, blogging, forums, and guild web site hosting - the specialized web hosting service designed to support online gaming communities. The site also offers free PC and Mac Curse clients for managing game add-ons.
Popular games played by Curse gamers include World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, Aion, Runes of magic and several others. The company also owns several game-specific sites, including DiabloFans.com and AionSource.com. The company has grown by predicting what titles will be hits and setting up hubs for their communities.
Curse offers its users a basic, free membership and a premium, ad-free subscription-based membership. Advertising within e-newsletters generates additional revenues for the company.
Curse has 32 employees and is headquartered in San Francisco CA and Huntsville AL.