social gaming company and the honeymoon

Beijing time on May 9, "Forbes" article points out, Facebook and social gaming company was close Cooperation Partner, because when the interests of both sides is the same; But now, the relationship has begun to reveal signs of tension or even be broken. The latest example is: It is well-known technology blog site TechCrunch reported that Facebook virtual currency in the system FacebookCredits negotiations into the issue because consensus could not reach a final burst, Zynga on Thursday and threatened to leave Facebook to start their own social games Network ZyngaLive.
Friday in San Francisco's Social Game Summit (SocialGamingSummit), the other group of experts said that the problem is very complex, they found themselves with more and more complex relationship between Facebook.
Social game developers 6waves CEO ArthurChow said: "This reminds me of my second girlfriend, our relationship has always been a love-hate, but mainly love relationship."
FacebookCredits not welcomed by some game developers, those developers have been developing their own in-game virtual money, they want more revenue can be assigned. In addition, the summit of a panel of experts that can compete for customers for the channel such as the use Facebookfeeds and SMS, Facebook's policy more strict. However, most developers still have to admit that they primarily rely on social networks to acquire new customers, at least in the United States is so. Many social game developers have begun to consider other ways, such as the establishment of dedicated gaming portals such as FarmVille.com. Slide
social gaming company's vice president of KeithRabois said: "No matter what time of platform development in other games, it may be some unexpected things. You will see more and more people are realizing through Facebook users can get some, but they also are trying to control through their non-Facebook site to control more of the user experience. "
Summit in social games, and some people think that Facebook's policies and monetary systems is cooperation with the social networking part of the costs and risks. They said as long as Facebook can continue to grow and for other growth opportunities for gaming companies, they are willing to continue cooperation with Facebook.
Games XPDMedia president AndyTian accepted FacebookCredits system, he said: "There is no free lunch, Facebook to use the resources of its customers the company closing point of the game fee is fair."
The same time, the U.S., in addition to Facebook, the social gaming company is no better social network partners to choose from. Facebook users now have more than 400 million people.
CEO of social gaming company GameDuell KaiBolik said: "Who want to use the Zynga network? This is unknown."
Obviously, as restless as Zynga's Facebook game developers more and more. Moreover, the social game between developers and Facebook will be more tense, but for many companies, Facebook is now not to break with the point that they can profit from the cooperation of both sides.
Chow said: "Why do I compare my Facebook's second girlfriend? It is because of my second girlfriend finally become my wife. Therefore, we will not abandon cooperation with the Facebook."

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