The WeGame Blog

Hey WeGamers,

If you’ve kept up with the blog, you probably know WeGame has the ability to auto-tweet whenever you start playing a game while running the WeGame client. This feature was disabled a week or two ago, but we have now re-enabled it after making some improvements. This version utilizes Twitter’s oAuth system so you don’t need to deal with entering your Twitter username or password anywhere.

Go edit your profile and click the ‘My Twitter’ tab if you want to give it a try! Note: all previous users of this feature will need to setup their Twitter integration again by going to the ‘My Twitter’ tab and authorizing WeGame with Twitter.

Hi WeGamers,

I just wanted to send up a quick post to let you know that four popularly-requested games can now be recorded with the WeGame Client. You will now be able to capture video and screenshots from:

• Champions Online
• Race Driver: GRID
• A Perfect World International
• Microsoft Flight Simulator X

As always, if you encounter any problems don’t hesitate to contact help@wegame.com. Look forward to more great features and support for more games in the near future!

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com

We’re always looking for new ways to improve the speed & performance of WeGame.com. One thing we noticed was sometimes WeGame would load very slowly if you tried to view a popular video (e.g. World of Workcraft). After some investigating, we figured out it was due to the large number of comments popular items would usually have. If a video/screenshot had 500 comments, your browser would need to load & display all of these comments. This process would usually take quite a bit of time.

We just rolled out our Paginated Comment system to solve this problem. This should speed up the average page load time on pages with lots of comments. You can see it in action in this demo video, or better yet, just load up one of our popular videos.

Have a great week!

Hi WeGamers,

I’m here to announce a very exciting new feature. This week our web team is proud to present playlists! Playlists, as you might expect, are a way for a user to group content together by any category. Let’s say, for example, I wanted to make a list of the coolest-looking Champions Online characters on WeGame…

First I would find a cool-looking character:

Then I would go down to the bottom of the image, above the decription, and click the “Add to playlist” button

Which gives me the option to either add to an old playlist, or create a new one. I’ll create a new one:

Now if I want to view the playlist I’ve created, I simply go to my profile and click the playlist button

And there you have it! I hope you all like it! if you encounter any problems don’t hesitate to contact help@wegame.com.

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com

Hey WeGamers,

As promised, we are bringing some cool new gameplay related features to your Profile. Check out these two new pods on the right column of your Profile:

If they are empty, it means you haven’t played any of your games with the WeGame client. So, you should download it now. Have fun!

Best,
Jared

Hey WeGamers,

We have an exciting new feature for you all today. Starting today, you can list all the games you play on your WeGame profile. Each game has some cool stats like:

• When you added the game
• How many of your friends play the game
• Total time you have played the game
• Much more to come…

To view your own game library, simply visit your profile and click the Games tab.

The Games tab will show all the games you have added to your library. You can add games to your library manually using the form located under the Games tab.

If you use the WeGame client, it will automatically add any games you launch to your library. You don’t need to do anything :) If you don’t use the client already, you should download it now.

We’ll be adding many interesting features related to the games you play soon, so be sure to check back. As always, if you see any problems with this new feature, please feel free to e-mail us at help@wegame.com.

Have fun with this new feature and keep on gaming!

Hi WeGamers!

We’re happy to introduce a new feature today: WeGame Challenges! Challenges are contests designed to determine who’s the very best at WeGame. You can create any kind of challenge you like, from Coolest MMO Character to Longest CoD4 Killstreak. There are 2 kinds of challenges you can create:

• Popular Vote Challenge
  Recommended for Challenges like:
  The Best Headshot, Find the Hottest Video Game Character, The Coolest Halo 3 Trick Jump The winner of a Popular Vote challenge is determined by votes/likes given by the community. The entry that is considered most Popular by our voting algorithm will be declared the winner.

• Record Breaking Challenge
  Recommended for Challenges like:
  The Most Headshot Kills, Fastest Portal Level 7 Speedrun, The Biggest Zergling Army The winner of a Record challenge is determined by their submitted Metric. For instance, your challenge could be called ‘Most Shotgun Kills’. When users submit their entry, they will also be prompted to enter the # of shotgun kills they achieved in their video or screenshot. User voting does not happen in a Record challenge. It is your responsibility to verify that the winners submit legitimate entries. Makes sure their videos/screenshots actually show them achieving the metric they submitted..

If you’re the type that would rather participate than create a challenge, you simply go to the challenge you want to win, press the enter challenge button, then choose your entry from your screenshots or videos! Please note that there are time restrictions on media submissions:

• Media uploaded 24 hours prior to Challenge creation
• Media uploaded anytime after Challenge creation

Check out some of the challenges so far:

Best Glitch

Most Awesome Explosion

Coolest-Looking Boss

And more!

So get out there, create, enter and vote! You can be winning gold now!

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com

Hey WeGamers,

Hope everyone is having a great week! We just released 2 new things on WeGame. Here’s the breakdown:

WeGame Tokens
WeGame now has two different types of currency you can earn: Gold & Tokens. Gold (aka ‘free currency’) is earned by doing actions on the site like uploading, commenting, posting in the forums, etc.. Tokens (aka ‘paid currency’) can only be earned by completing offers or by purchasing them with Paypal/Credit Cards/Mobile. You can get tokens here! Tokens have a much higher value than Gold. While it may take you a month to earn 500K gold and get a game from the store, you can easily earn 400 tokens with offers in an hour.

Game of the Day
The Store has temporarily been changed to Game of the Day. Every day we will offer a new game up for sale that can be purchased with WeGame Gold or Tokens. A new game will go up every day at 12AM PST. Keep an eye on the Store for some cool games! If there is a certain game you would like to see, post it in the comments!

Have fun,
Jared

Hi WeGamers!

After some consideration, we have decided to implement a cap on WeGame Gold. This cap will help us improve the WeGame experience by:

1. Acting as a spam deterrent to prevent users from attempting to accrue large amounts of gold through exploitative means.
2. Giving us better control of the economy so we can price items in the store at an achievable level for newer users.
3. Allowing us to implement new and exciting features around Gold in the near future.

We have decided to set the maximum Gold cap at 1,000,000 gold. The cap will be enacted on Monday July 14th. In order to allow users who currently exceed the cap to make use of their currency, there will be some vanity items added to the store that will no longer be available after the cap is enacted.

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com

Hi WeGamers!

Just a quick post to let you know that we support Street Fighter 4 PC. You can challenge me on Gorndt if you wish to be destroyed (Pending me getting a working arcade stick.)

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com