We have a huge list of new stuff for you this week. We’ve improved the profile page to help you express yourself and learn more about others and we’ve added to the games pages to give you more information about the games, too.
Compatibility
First of all, you may notice when you look at someone’s profile page, you will see your compatibility with them.
We’ll be steadily improving the fancy math that we use to determine how alike you are to someone else. Make sure you track your gameplay with our desktop client and add games to your library to get more accurate results!
Genre Chart
If you don’t think that’s enough to get an idea of the person you’re looking at, we’ve also added a fancy automatically generated genre chart that shows the kinds of games a person plays.
Rich Text Biography
Aside from improving your experience when looking at others, we’ve also added some things to help you express yourself better. You used to be able to enter a few lines of text about yourself. Now, you can use our rich text editor and include links, photos and fancier text to truly express yourself and own your profile page. Just go to your profile page to get started.
Latest Review and Loved Games
You can also express what games you’re into in more ways now. If you’ve reviewed any games on Raptr, your latest review will be shown on your profile page. If you’ve professed your love for any games, you’ll also be able to show that off.
Metacritic Score
Speaking of love, we’ve shown some love to the games pages as well. Just like the profiles, we want to help you find out more about a game and whether you’d like it. And what better way to show you that than including the Metacritic score for the game?
Raptr Support Levels
We’ve also added some additional information about each game so you know which Raptr features apply to the game. We call this the Raptr Support Level. For example, we currently can track play sessions for Xbox LIVE, PC, Flash and Mac games. For some of these games, we support One-Click Join and for most of the PC games, we also auto-update them for you. Now you can easily tell which awesome Raptr features apply to your game (and can tell us if your game isn’t getting enough love).
Wants to Play
Last but not least, we added two features to help you connect with your friends when you want to play a game. The first is a feature that we literally call wants to play. From your Raptr homepage, instead of setting a status, you can set “wants to play” and the game you’re in the mood for. Raptr will optionally let you message any friends who also have that game. So if you feel like a game of Left 4 Dead, Raptr will notify your L4D buddies for you!
Desktop Gameplay Notifications
On the PC client, whenever a friend starts playing a game, you’ll get a desktop notification that they’ve started. We’ve already found this pretty handy at the office to know when a Starcraft game is starting up.
And More!
That’s not even the entire list of stuff we’ve added. There’s a long list of smaller things that we’ll leave for you to discover. We’d love to hear what you guys think of these new features and what else you’d like to see. Remember to drop us a line on our forums!
Some of them arne’t very friendly on xbox live.
Love playing these games