Guild Launch Offers Free Guild Hosting

Guild Launch (www.guildlaunch.com) has launched a new guild hosting service incorporating social networking features. The service, which launched in mid-January, offers free ad-supported hosting with 10 megs of space and a subdomain, with additional features available for $5.99 a month. Guild Launch is hosted at FastServers, a fast-growing dedicated hosting provider with facilities in Chicago and Iowa.

Guild Launch has created a full featured guild hosting application for the MMORPG gaming industry for games such as World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, City of Heros, EverQuest, and for games that are in still development such as Age of Conan, Lord of the Rings Online , and the highly anticipated WarHammer Online. Guild Launch says it is is taking the best of the social networking features and building them into its guild hosting application. “Guild hosting should offer more, it should be feature rich and grow with the needs of it’s users and the needs of individual game niches,” said Guild Launch founder Stephen Johnston. “Being stagnant is a disservice to your community and leaves you out of touch with the needs of gamers.”
In addition to basic guild features like guild forums, guild roster, calendar, file library, and news they have created a selection of widgets to add usefulness to the guild site. Widgets are small informational snap shots into the larger features. They have also created larger features lie a custom built dkp system called “Rapid Raid.” Guild Launch motes that whiule there are many DKP systems on the market, Rapid Raid anticipates information needed by users and pre-fills forms and shares data through out the site.