Going all the way back to the Atari days, gamers have always marched to the beat of their own drums. Gamers congregating in arcades in the 1970s were a uniquely unified sub-culture long before the hyper-focused, hyper-niche, subreddit diehard fan culture we see around all forms of today’s media.
Today, approximately 3 billion people worldwide play video games. The video game industry is a bigger moneymaker than the global movie and North American sports industries combined. With micro-targeted platforms such as LinkedIn further fragmenting the current social media landscape, doesn’t it make sense that gaming, the dominant entertainment market on the planet, would have a social media biosphere all its own?
PvP is poised to become that pinnacle social media hub of the gaming universe. While some gamers flock to traditional platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and still others gravitate to streaming locations like Twitch, PvP is a new environment built just for gamers to offer the deep dive social media experience gamers want. The community even has published “non-toxic” community guidelines and self-governing features to let users report content that doesn’t fit its «positive gamer community» vibe.
At its foundational level, the new platform offers all the basics social media users expect, from ways to post and discuss gaming news, chat about hot topics, or just crow about your latest gaming accomplishment. With an emphasis on the biggest multiplayer games around like Fortnite, League of Legends, Call of Duty, FIFA, and more, users can each build out their own personal profiles, including features like their own Hall of Fame gaming highlight clips.
But PvP goes even deeper. Using Squad Finder, PvP’s core feature can
Read more on gamespot.com