WiiPA was recently launched as an online community for Wii fans, where they can connect with other players, organize and participate in “Wii parties”, and compete in online and offline tournaments.
The owner, Tom, started this network because he thought that multiplayer gaming on the Wii could be improved by having a community built around it, and until now that has not really existed. Gamers could play with family and friends, or online for some games, but there was no continuity to the experience, and you couldn’t really make a lasting connection with new people. Using SocialGO, he was able to design the network to make it’s purpose instantly obvious. He uploaded custom avatars that were all related to the Wii, and customized the ‘Groups’ tab by turning it in to a ‘Tournaments’ tab, which is much more relevant to his user base. Using the custom tabs Tom was also able to create an information page, with some information about the site mission, and also a games tab, to provide some online games for his members!
Tom said “The decision to use Socialgo was a real no brainer. Even though SocialGO is still in Beta, everything looks so polished and seems to ‘click’ - so that it was easy to customize the look of my network, and get it to do the things I envisioned. I am a pretty independent developer but when I needed it, it was great to get answers from the owners network, and support has been very accessible. I also like SocialGO’s commitment to having the owners maintain as much control as possible to the content and infrastructure of their site.”
“WiiPA is still at a very early stage, and a community like this hinges on being able to attract many users, but I feel the site has so many of the features people would want from a social network, so I am confident that we will become a place that every Wii owner would want to join.”
The SocialGO team wish WiiPA the best of luck with their network!
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