Facebook's Strategy: Growth In Desktop, Core, Mid-Core Games
Facebook has a sizable share of the games market, but it wants more. Most of the people who pay for games on Facebook are casual gamers, with titles such as King.com's Candy Crush Saga at the forefront. But as Sean Ryan (pictured), Facebook's director of games partnerships, discussed at the Game Developers Conference Tuesday in San Francisco, the company wants to become a bigger player in the games market through more action and console-like games.
Facebook has a sizable share of the games market, but it wants more. Most of the people who pay for games on Facebook are casual gamers, with titles such as King.com’s Candy Crush Saga at the forefront. But as Sean Ryan (pictured), Facebook’s director of games partnerships, discussed at the Game Developers Conference Tuesday in San Francisco, the company wants to become a bigger player in the games market through more action and console-like games.
One of the superstars of the Game Developers Conference has been Candy Crush Saga, which is the third-most-popular game on Facebook in terms of monthly active users, according to sister site AppData.
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