Ok, first off, if something like this has already been attempted, exists, or this is otherwise just a ridiculous whimsy, just let me know. =-P
I know that growing up and playing Everquest over the years, I made a lot of really, really good friends. Two of them are my son's god-parents, and one of them I served in the military with. Despite the ones I've managed to keep in contact with, there are a lot that I have lost touch with over the years. This saddens me, because like a lot of MMO gamers, I bonded with quite a few people through hours of group grinding and farming.
Some of these people, I knew their real names. Others, it was before the age of social media, and character names and servers, possibly guilds, was all I had. But I bet a lot of these people are still gaming, perhaps they're the elementalist I group with in Guild Wars 2, and maybe they're the Siren I play with occasionally on Borderlands 2, and I don't even know it.
Now I don't know much about running a data base, a server, or a lot of the technical stuff, so I'd need a lot of help with that. But I think it would be really neat if there was something that existed where you could, by choice, list your server, characters, and ways to contact you and/or specific other characters you would like to get back in contact with. I know there are a ton of people that I have great memories of gaming with, and I would love the chance to game with them now.
What do you guys think?
By the way, if any of the following characters from Luclin are around, I'd love to get in touch with you: Bruin Bearheart, Cracten Bonedigger, Valkorous, Solipsis, Thinwe, Melikus, Acadec, Cattibri, Paja, Eudamahn, Darmond, Malaguana, Kasjule, Wendelf...the list goes on.