Find Real life friends in-game now through – WowPals
July 9, 2009 by srfto
Ever had a feeling that someone playing World of Warcraft who you may or may not know might be living right next door to you and you wouldn’t even know it? Well, now finding someone in-game by “location” in world of warcraft might not be that tough a job anymore. Not that it was before anyway. A new company from Israel called WowPals has done just that by starting a new website called WoWPals. It’s a location-based social network that lets you find fellow World of Warcraft fans near you.
The service lets players hook up with other local players, form local communities, find recruits for teams of players known as guilds, and share WoW updates via Twitter. The site is in its alpha testing stage now and hopes to move to a beta test by the end of the year.
WoWPals is owned by GamersFlux, a Yehud, Israel-based startup founded by two 23-year-old gamers: Nadav Har Tzvi and Danny Tsechansky. They started work on the service in April, 2009, and it went live earlier this month in a public alpha test. It’s one of many social networks for gamers that have sprung up in the past couple of years. There are big rivals such as Rupture, which was acquired by Electronic Arts, and Raptr, a well-financed gamers social network founded by serial entrepreneur Dennis Fong.
The company is self-funded and it is looking for a new round of investors. This enterprise is going to succeed or fail based on how well it can tailor useful services that the hardcore fans feel like they can’t get through the game itself.
Well, maybe its not that bad to actually get out and make some friends now by using this service. Don’t you think so?
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