I tried RPG Matches and after the odd sort of experience that I had there, I spoke to the webmaster. At RPG Matches, the main concern was privacy.

I’m sorry that we can not approve your profile at this time. For your protection, as well as ours, we can not allow personal information in profiles. This includes e-mails, phone numbers, websites, etc. Please revise your profile and resubmit. Thank you for your interest in RPGMatches.com.

I was not allowed to post links, or mention my location. There were maybe a dozen women in the membership at the time. Very few games were represented, and except for playing the original Everquest, the webmaster was clueless about other games. I couldn’t even present the interview I did with him. He didn’t know much gamer slang, or even what homebrew games for PSP were. The “service” was useless to me because I needed to network. I wanted to meet women in my area that play video games as well as connection with women worldwide to recruit for my Guild Wars guild. No such luck. I give RPG Matches a Not Much Use to Anyone 2.

MMO Faces is a new website that also intends to help gamers connect. It has a slick-looking website style. They have an aggressive marketing plan to get gamers to join and they offer perks to those who do the recruiting. But looks are not everything. In spite of good intentions the website suffers from bugs and spam.

When I joined I got 14 emails that had nothing in the subject line and nothing in the body of the message. At the time there was no place to go for support. When one of the women on the staff posted a folder for tech support, I put up several questions and requests for help with the new site. I got no replies at all. When I emailed the site administrator I got no response at all. Eventually the blank spam emails stopped.

When I returned to the website a few weeks later it was full of pop up and pop under ads for Party Poker, and other ‘Get A Free Whatnot’ advertisements. Windows started jumping all over the screen repeatedly. When I attempted to go back to the tech support folder, it was gone. The webmaster may have some grand ideas and a fine concept, but it is far from being new or unique as they claim. The pop up ads are not just an annoying turn off, but include adware and spyware which is totally uncool. The website has some potential in the future and I’d like to see them get the glitches squared away. I give MMO Faces a Hopeful 3.

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