Online Gaming's Social Networking Site Adds Features Including Guild Home Pages and RSS Feeds for Guild News
GuildCafe Entertainment Inc., provider of the world's first social
network for online gamers, today announced new features that allow
guild and clan leaders to organize and promote their gaming groups,
complete with private forums, event scheduling, roster management and
targeted publishing of guild accomplishments to outside media. By
integrating with the GuildCafe social network, guild leaders are
offered capabilities far beyond existing "guild hosting" and "guild
portal" services, with intra-guild communication, publication of news,
import of score and profile information, and methods for finding new
recruits and appropriate opponents.
"One of the main objectives
of GuildCafe is to meet the needs of gamers not only as individuals,
but as members of a gaming universe of guild members and leaders," said
Jon Radoff, president & CEO of GuildCafe Entertainment Inc.
"GuildCafe's new features are designed to address online gamers' demand
for easy and straightforward online forums, event scheduling, player
rosters and information. Publicizing achievements, promoting guilds to
potential new members, and challenging other guilds to competitions are
breakthrough capabilities on GuildCafe that guild leaders just can't
get through traditional guild hosting sites."
Using GuildCafe's
new features to create a home page for a guild, guild members can tap
into private forums, a scheduling system for events or raids, and tools
that track the player roster and statistics. These rosters are
automatically updated with information such as the level and classes
played by their members, equipment, scores and other profile
information like competitive Person versus Person (PvP) data in select
games including "World of Warcraft."
To reach beyond a guild's
home page, guild members can broadcast their achievements through the
automatic publishing of brag-worthy events, such as major raids and PvP
victories, onto GuildCafe channels “ a medium expressly built to herald
guild successes as RSS feeds distributed to websites and other
interested parties who want to stay current on guild happenings.
Ultimately, this guild-hosting system integrated within the social
network of GuildCafe results in the accessibility of important
information on guild activities. Guild leaders can then identify and
connect with players who are the best match for their guild, and
likewise, players are guided to the guilds that are ideally suited to
their individual playstyles.
"A major challenge of running a
large raiding guild is finding players who share a similar mentality
and want the same types of things out of the game that I do," explained
Charbroil (his in-game name), the co-guild leader of Battle Tribe, one
of 'World of Warcraft's' larger raiding guilds on the Archimonde
server. "GuildCafe not only allows me to host and run my guild through
an easy-to-use interface, it also hooks me up with a network of gamers
with common interests and playstyles so I can recruit guild members or
socialize with other players."
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