Gamers Social Network

[SAS]

Is there a gamer version of facebook/myspace? I'm sure there is, but are any of them good?

I had a vision of the old BarrysWorld membership area combined with a social network interface. Gamers can play games on the site. Link up with gamers from other games. Beta testers can check future testers backgrounds. Information can be gathered (in a nice way of course) about gamers habits. Games could link directly to the gamer social site via web 2.0 developments.. the list goes on...

Just an idea I had (which I saw this 6/7 years ago :|).

If there are no sites out there, would a gamer social network work?

 

[Mey]

closes thing I can think of is: Kongregate: Play free games online

 

[Mabs]

I had a vision of the old BarrysWorld membership area combined with a social network interface. Gamers can play games on the site. Link up with gamers from other games

STEAM + steam friends/community, no ?

 

[Ch3tan]

Yeah sites like clanbase and clanintern have been doing this kind of things for years. User profiles + clan profiles, private messaging and stats.

 

[Mabs]

just need someone to resurrect the Wireplay launcher and we'd be sorted

 

[Mazling]

I thought the whole point of being a gamer was so that you could get out of being social

 

[Dukat]

I thought the whole point of being a gamer was so that you could get out of being social

What Maz said!!

I think like Mabs pointed out - Steamfriends/communities is all gamers really want/need.

Social sites become seem to become an end in themselves rather than the means to an end that they started out to be - hence bands and thier "zomg must have the most friends!", and others who just randomly invite everyone to increase thier friends count.

I have a myspace somewhere, very rarely log into it and cant remember the last time I went as far as actually talking to anyone on it!

Steam friends is good because it connects people to the games they're playing, you can join a freinds game through steamfriends etc etc etc - you can even have a steam "ID page" where you can do something similar to one of these social sites, but that isnt the whole point of steam friends - playing games is

Its a good idea SAS - I just think competing with steam would be a bit of a struggle, possibly a pointless struggle seeing as steam friends is already installed on anyones pc who has HL2, CSS or TF2 - trying to start off would be difficult even if you could duplicate/exceed the services that steam friends provide.

 

[TdC]

clanintern

I read that as clan IN Trem

 

[Aesgir]

Yeah there is, its called Guildcafe. I know a couple of others from here are members too. Have a clicky on my sig if you wanna check out a link. Bit more indepth and less shit than facebook and myspace imo

 

[SAS]

I have a myspace somewhere, very rarely log into it and cant remember the last time I went as far as actually talking to anyone on it!

The problem with myspace is once you have the profile and friends... That's it? I log in once a month, if that too. There are a load of things you can do on myspace, but it's a lot of effort . Facebook though has got it about right. Loads to add and do and very effortless (Web2.0)?

 

[gremlin]

xbox live does it for me these days.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Freddyshouse?

 

[Yaka]

wtf is it with social netwanking?

on pc steam prolly does the job, ps3 there will be home, and ms are supposed to be planing some uopgrades to live at some point