Preparing for Shadowlands

Greetings,

...preparing for Shadowlands is quite the task. And today I want to tell you what happened during the last few months. And what I learned. If you're focused on all charts that are currently available, nothing will change for you (well, maybe slight UI updates). If you want charts for your own character, follow along.

TL;DR

I founded a company that'll handle the development and connection between Patreon and bloodmallet.com. This was necessary to legally enable personalized charts.

The Start

Already before the last blogpost went up I started the process of founding a company and getting information on how to do so. For those unfamiliar with where I come from - Germany. Therefore I was interested in founding the company in Germany as well. 

So...step 1 for founding a company? Information collection. Required for that: tax advisor and lawyer. Getting appointments with different ones to find one that is actually interested in this usecase is not as easy as it might seem. We're talking about an internet company, that works closely around an MMORPG. And while for us that concept might seem easy, explaining how a game like World of Warcraft is structured, how loot works, and why charts like bloodmallet.com ones help playing it, isn't that easy. So fast forward two months, I finally found people who could help me with that endeavor.

Step 2: Selecting a notary to found the company in the chosen form. Yes, for this in Germany you need a notary. Alright, back to scheduling appointments. Talking again about what I want to found, what the task of the company is, providing all meta-information to found the company. Then scheduling an appointment to be legally instructed. Current date: 02 June.

Step 3: Now the German bureaucracy time is ticking. The legal instruction date/signing date of the founding document introduces a six week deadline. During that time one needs to open a business banking account, deposit common capital stock, submit the bank statement about that deposit to the notary, who in turn needs to submit your signed papers from the previously mentioned date to a district court. Because banks didn't want to talk with me without the signed founding papers of step 2, some more weeks went by while waiting to receive them from the notary. Then scheduling appointments with banks. Self-authentication, signing documents, submitting them via post. Waiting. Finally receiving IBAN to deposit common capital stock. Waiting. Receiving the bank statement. Submitting that to the notary. Being two days before the end of the deadline. "That...was close." Lorewalker Cho

Step 4: Waiting for post from commercial register.

Step 5: Filling out tax office documents. Waiting for the response to either answer questions or to receive the tax number of the company.

Step 6: Time to celebrate. The company exists and all company data is available.

In-progress: legal documents for the website. Impressum, cookie information, terms and conditions,...?

Take-away: scheduling meetings (especially during corona...) is time consuming. And while one meeting can be done quickly, if one needs to do have multiple in a fixed order a surprisingly amount of time can pass. Oh and the usual...tax forms are a science.

Yours sincerely,
Bloodmallet(EU)