EA/Playfish Also Signs Five Year Deal to Exclusively Use Credits on Facebook

Following CrowdStar, Zynga, Playdom, RockYou and most other social game developers on Facebook, EA’s Playfish has announced that it is entering into a five-year agreement to use Credits as the exclusive virtual currency payment option on Facebook. It was only a matter of time.

While many developers had directly integrated with third-party payment options like PayPal, mobile payment options, offers, and more during the early years of the platform, that began to change last year. The developer community began to whisper that Facebook was going to make then use Credits exclusively, and over the course of the first part of this year, Facebook began to talk publicly about doing so.

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