Napster Founder Crafting WoW Community

Gamespot reports on Napster founder Shawn Fanning's newest project: an online community for MMOG players called Rupture. He's initially, sensibly, targeting World of Warcraft players with what's being described as 'MySpace for Azeroth'. From the article: "The [service] will pull data directly from WOW and publish stats and information on a personalized page. Gamers will also be able to instant message while playing, as well as track the progress of their guilds and organize playing time with their online buddies. Rupture will rely on ads for revenue and also focus on exchanging info on gamers' real lives, should they have one. WOW is the first game on the plate for Rupture, but no other titles have yet been mentioned. "

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Re:Isn't This Redundant?

[Broken scope]

Well part of it is the fact that guilds need an out og game way to organize. Most succeful guilds have a forum and other things that pull stats from the game. However those site take alot of work and this will make it easier for a guilds to organize. Also it gives a better way to check on the guild besides logging in.

Yes, the market for this is allready full

[helot50]

http://www.mycharacterspace.com/ http://www.gamerpics.com/ http://www.warcraftsocial.com/ and there are plenty of sites that can gather your character info as well. http://wow.allakhazam.com/ http://www.thottbot.com/ http://ctprofiles.net/ http://www.wowguru.com/db/profiles/ http://www.wowrankings.com/ theres more out there.