Comments on: Social Gaming in 2009: Challenges and Opportunities

By: Emy

Emy — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:07:28 +0000

The challenges involved in social gaming is applicable to a competitive organisation. The market is big and there is so much competition involved, this produces games in mass numbers but at the same time it tests the game developers creativity. The idea behind social gaming should be encouraged and i like the part of free to play rather than paying $60 for a game.Great!!!!

By: Rasmus Djernæs Nielsen

Rasmus Djernæs Nielsen — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Social Gaming is the future, there is no doubt about that.

But there is still a long way to go, as the article describe.

I think there are a lot of great companies out there, and we will see fantastic things in the future

http://www.spigo.com is a company, im personally i following very close. They create a very high standard of games and try to incorporate all the big social communities in there solution.

By: MMOReactor

MMOReactor — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:49:17 +0000

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since we are a Community Run website, we do make sure that all the rules and regulations of the website is decided by majority of the members itself.

Come visit us and tell us what you think we are always looking for feedbacks and advice.

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By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:52:08 +0000

great article on the future of gaming for the year. Can’t wait to see all these things happen!

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[...] Social Gaming: Challenges And Opportunities For ‘09 — Social gaming may be a growth sector, but GigaOm’s Wagner James Au warns the coming year will bring challenges as well as opportunities for social gaming startups. One of the biggest challenges, he says, is that the majority of startups are still at the mercy of top social networks like Facebook, which have a habit of suddenly changing their policies. Such changes can have an adverse affect on third party application makers. There’s also unpredictability in competition. Most social networking games are easy to reproduce, so developers often find themselves competing with knockoff versions of their own app. Also, the proliferation of poor quality games could hurt the sector as a whole, says Kristian Segerstrale, CEO and co-founder of Playfish: “Poor quality user experiences or misleading monetization mechanisms like some of the aggressive CPA practices we’ve seen in 2008 could jeopardize the perception of social games and our growth potential as an industry.” [...]

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By: hunter walk

hunter walk — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:32:34 +0000

big fan of social games using established social tools (like FriendConnect) to enhance the experience. You mentioned Spore – they had a fabulous screencap and upload to YouTube feature which resulted in more than 150k fan videos being produced and automatically blasted to YT for distribution. [note, working at YouTube myself i'm clearly biased here].

My sense is that we’re still really early in social games from a game design perspective thus you see the familiar genres and knockoffs dominating the space. My prediction would be that the most successful games of 09 involve new mechanics and themes which take advantage of the Internet as opposed to just porting successful titles into gadgets or social network X.