GamrCred is a place solely built for a gaming community. We were invited to the beta and came away a little impressed with what they are trying to achieve here. First let’s talk about what they hope to achieve.
GamrCred is all about what you play and say to earn respect from other people. You can connect your gaming accounts and your social accounts to GamrCred and people can click the respect button on stuff you say and what trophies you earn if the deem fit. Play + Say + Respect = GamrCred.
On sign up, after the usual stuff, I’m invited to add any gaming profiles. The gaming profiles available at the moment are PSN, Xbox Live and Steam accounts. All the games and achievements are then added to your GamrCred account for people to see and also boost your Play rating. The more games you pay and the more acheivements/trophies you earn the better the Play rating. Then I’m asked if I want to add social profiles like Facebook and Twitter to be connected to you GamrCred account. The whole process was simple and quick and will not deter the people even with the smallest amount of patience.
Once in, you can invite your friends and make new friends. Compare you trophy collection with others and even give them, like mentioned earlier, a “Respect” for trophies that they’ve earned. What you say on you social accounts can also gain respect so it’ll encourage you to be more vocal about your games. You can see exactly how well you are doing in each category – Play, Say, Respect – from slider bars on the left of you profile for each category. Depending how well you are doing, the sliders will move to give you a better or worse rating which in turn then gives you a GamrCred rank depending on your performance. To bolster up the community just a little bit for you have the standard forum where you can do the usual forum things.
The experience was a positive one and the idea of a massive gaming community linking all their gaming profiles to show off their achievements is kind of is exciting. As you would expect in beta mode there is a few bugs and maybe a few areas that they can improve, like navigating seemed a bit of a chore sometimes. That said, they have got the basics right and GamrCred has great potential.
If you like what you see then you can try out the GamrCred beta. We have beta keys to giveaway.
