Setting Up A New Website, Anyone Interested? (Non Wrestling)

[Smacktalks]

Seeing as I quit work a few weeks ago, once the World Cup is over i'm gonna be starting to put together a few different projects to work on, one of which looks to be online gaming league. Rather than diving straight into this by myself, i'm looking to work on it with a group of people to setup and share the workload. Would any of you be interested in this?

I've previously partially setup a system in php for this for SvR 2009 but it never got finished as the interest for it seemed to die down, but it could easily be amended and developed for all games. If you want an example of the kind of site i'm talking about, it'd be in a similar style to the way Clanbase.com works, but offering more games as Clanbase doesnt seem to be up to date with newer releases and hardly has any game ladders available for consoles.

Le me know what you think and if you'd be interested in working on this.

[Fozy]

You mean gamebattles.com and MLG?

[Smacktalks]

Similar to those yeah, tho since i've looked into it a bit more there seems to be quite a lot of gaming leagues now, so it might be a case of going back to the drawing board.

I had considered the idea of gamers challenging each other to matches with money on the line, i.e.

[jitz]

Yeah be careful with wanting to copy a Virgin Gaming model. If that gets popular and big they're going to run into a lot of trouble legally. Something Virgin can handle, but you can't. Putting money down on matches is gambling, and should require gambling licenses and the necessary anti-gambling advertisements on the website required in many countries.

They try to get around it in the terms and conditions by basically sayiong "don't use this website if your country/state doesn't permit it's use". Yet they allow sign ups from a lot of those countries and states. Which would make all of those matches null and void.

Massive grey area that if it becomes popular and gets media attention will become very nasty.

[Smacktalks]

Yeah, i'd looked into some of the requirements for it and there was a lot to sort out before even beginning to develop it, which was put me off the idea of enabling gambling for it.

From what I read it sounds like Virgin took over VG from someone else, tho I dunno when that was so they may be in the process of updating things.

If anyone signs up to it, skip the $20 deposit they say is required as it gives you $10 free to use wether you deposit or not.