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Reply To: Remember the GameFor app?

February 22, 2023 at 7:38 pm #1803751

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And there was another one around the same time as GameFor which failed just as badly.

These apps try to solve a real problem: a person is into a specific game, but has no mates to play it. So, like dating. But the difference to dating is that the best solution for the lonely gamer is not to find another lonely gamer but a group or a scene. Those who are members of clubs, FLGS groups or whatever would have no incentive to join these apps, instead they are in typical social media or on websites like OTT. The chance of finding that other loner in an area that has no scene starts to get so diminishingly small the apps make no sense.

I’m in a lucky position to me a member of a super active club where I can find someone to play almost anything. But if I wasn’t, I’m not sure my desire to play something would overcome the awkwardness of reaching out to someone random to ask for a game. Or in fact receive such a message from someone else.