The Future of The Undermine Journal

Important update from http://theunderminejournal.com:

Since December 3rd, the Armory has been failing to return results during many of our scans across all realms. Depending on the time of day, only 40%-60% of our scans are completing, which is well below our previous rate of 98%. This delays Market Watch events and affects how our live and sold auctions appear, as well as making our historical data for the affected times a little more imprecise.

As many of you know, Blizzard is phasing out the current wowarmory.com and encouraging players to use battle.net. The Undermine Journal has always pulled its market data using wowarmory.com. With the recent unreliability of wowarmory.com, we have looked into switching to getting auction data from battle.net.

Unfortunately, we would no longer be able to supply accurate market data if we relied on what’s currently available at battle.net. Blizzard has implemented more restrictions in what looks to be an attempt to discourage crawlers like ours. We have posted on the Blizzard web development forums looking for any official response about support, or even tolerance, for crawlers such as ours, and haven’t heard anything from them.

Since our future is in doubt, we have temporarily suspended receiving donations, and paused the addition of newly supported realms. We continue to monitor the Armory status and intend to supply market data to you during Cataclysm, but at this time, many things are up in the air and out of our control.

For the next few weeks, enjoy Cataclysm, and don’t worry about us. Our crawlers are still running 24/7, and while the Armory is being more stubborn, we encourage you to continue using our services, taking market data with a grain of salt. We’ll keep you informed as best we can.

WoW Insider’s Euripides also did some coverage about it. Please leave them a comment to support this amazing tool! Seriously, this is one of the best tools out there, especially for a new expansion when you aren’t sure how much things are selling for. On a lot of items it also checks the prices on other servers for you. I know there is no EU support yet, however you can still pick a random realm and check prices that way.