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0 pointspchristensen16y ago0 comments

The whole point of the article is that they can get away with simple games and common themes because of Facebook's insane growth. Facebook games are the first games a lot of people have ever played on the web. Once this first wave of new players is on, they will become more demanding and savvy about what games they play, and these "veteran" game players are more choosy in playing and recommending games.

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bd16y ago

Yeah, but that's wrong assumption. This is no one-way street.

I'm counter-example myself. I actually reverted from being hardcore game player to playing mostly simple web games.

And I sure know others which went this way - from AAA titles to Zynga.

Here I said it. Most "real" gamers would be probably too ashamed to admit it :).

And about growth - I'm not sure what is the cause and what is the effect. In non US regions games themselves could actually be the driving mechanism for Facebook growth:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=989607

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