I’ve launched a new site today that I hope fills a need.
MMOPug.com is for players who need to find or fill a pick up group. I often find myself wanting to group on my main character in EQ2 (a L55 Fury), but get bored waiting for that group to come together. The siren call of my new Fae Illusionist calls and I switch over knowing that I’m losing any chance of getting a group on my Fury for the evening.
So I made a site to fix that. Basically, it uses a Craigslist template for players looking for a group to list their info. After they do that, the can switch to another alt, another server, hell, another game. Then, a group leader looking to put together a team can search the board for anyone available to fill his group that isn’t online at the time. The group leader can send an LFG poster an e-mail saying: come on over and join our group.
Putting together the site was easy enough (even with my severely limited HTML skills, go Ning.com site templates!), but getting the word out about it is going to be the tricky part. Fifteen years of real life marketing experience is going to be put to the test here.
December 25th, 2006 at 7:22 am
It’s a cool idea, but unless it were put in game in some way I can’t see it taking off.
I do have the advantage that my usual alt, my 54 necro, is a level 70 crafter and thus has all the same chat channels my main has.