Next New

If I could wish for a new "new media", it would be a next generation social gaming hub. It would have characteristics of existing new media like Discord, which allows communications and sharing, but would also be able to group people and suggest gaming partners depending on the game you are playing. A lot of games today take advantage of multiplayer modes and as a result many competitive scenes have arisen. This has created an environment for competitive game-play even among casual gamers which leads to the biggest problem one can experience: randoms. When you queue up for a match online without friends, you get matched with random people around your skill level. Often times this means an enjoyable experience is rare as the chances of you getting good chemistry with a bunch of random people is very unlikely. However, if you could match with people and talk with them beforehand, you're likely to have a much better time. You can see this idea already in action with how many people search for a community discord or game thread to find teammates. However, this process is still lengthy and requires multiple sources for only a chance at finding a portion of the community. A new media site that can provide an area for people playing the same game to meet, chat, and group-up would make meeting and playing with strangers a lot more fun and improve your experience gaming online overall. It could have separate hubs based on games and even organize the hubs by separating casual and competitive gamers as well.