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Facebook games have always catered mostly to families. The gaming
options are vast, including casino games such as Texas Holdem Poker,
hidden object games like Hidden Chronicles, puzzle games like Candy
Crush Saga, and the family and farming games like Café Land and of
course the infamous Farmville. Yet even with the endless options, there
is still extremely sought after and major revenue producing game genre
missing from Facebook. And Facebook is fully aware of this fact.
New Genre of Games to Come
For this reason, in 2013 Facebook will be slanting their game producing focus towards action battle games
like first-person shooter games, Hack and Slash and MMORPGs. Facebook
will be launching 10 games to be developed by third party companies to
focus on the hardcore gamers.
With gamers communicating with each other online and forming groups,
Facebook will be able to refocus marketing efforts to those individual
users.
Facebook commits to keeping gamers’ interest
Social gaming on Facebook is on the decline and they are making a
commitment to keep over one billion Facebook users on line for longer
periods of time. Some of the more traditional Facebook games have been
more family oriented but, juvenile and have a shorter playing time.
Facebook believes that with the arrival of these new games some of the
more hardcore gamers will be further engaged in the gaming and willing
to spend more time on Facebook and in turn generate additional earnings.
“You’ll see a whole set of games hitting in the next two quarters in particular and throughout the year that really start to redefine what people think of Facebook games,” head of game partnerships at Facebook Sean Ryan told Reuters in an interview. “It doesn’t mean we’re walking away from other games, but there’s no question our focus for 2013 much of it will be about becoming a better platform for core gamers and developers who make those games.”
One of the new games, Chrono Blade, created by startup developer Nway, is a real-time multi-player game in which gamers can team up with friends in co-op mode or switch to the more competitive PvP (player vs. player) mode.
This question is for the hard-core console gamers and MMORPG players. Would you be willing to step away from your game console and try out the new action games on Facebook?
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