Comments on: Three reasons social gaming on Facebook is declining

By: icewaterchrist

icewaterchrist — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:18:05 +0000

I would like to be able to attack other farms in Farmville

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By: Robert Pool

Robert Pool — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:43:15 +0000

There's not enough 'carrots' in games like Farmville — longterm achievable goals that a player can accomplish. You get to a point level-wise and go “now what?”. What really killed FV for me, though, was the performance of the servers are atrocious. Even with low settings on, my computer — which can handle 25 man WoW raids with mediumish settings at a constant 40-50 fps — screeches when I load up Farmville. I can only imagine how bad it is on a cheap netbook.

The power of a thousand blinking calves will set your PC on fire!

By: Shava Nerad

Shava Nerad — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:45:08 +0000

Zynga's userbase on Facebook has declined -- but has it declined on other platforms? Zynga is in the process of distributing themselves more widely (Yahoo, MySpace, iPhone,...) so the reduction may be out-migration to different social platforms.

Also, I'll note that I've seen, myself, several Facebook games (City of Eternals and Kingory among them, both non-Zynga games, but Zynga games too....) move people off of Facebook gaming and onto web- or client-based strategy or MMO gaming.

As a long time gamer, it's a really amusing process to watch, often involving repeated choked up cries of "I am not a gamer!" combined with increasing hours gaming, followed by a hunger for more complex games than Facebook's platform tends to foster.

Facebook has scared the hell out of the games industry because they go broad rather than deep. But they're a feeder to the established game companies, much in the same way games like Club Penguin will be.

By: Lowell Cremorne

Lowell Cremorne — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:30:17 +0000

It’s a superb point Shava: there’s no doubt conversions to their own platform plays a big part in the strategy of companies like Zynga. Until they make the games more engaging though, they’ll still face some challenges methinks.

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