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As seen in the comments here there's a strong reaction of "why would I ever use this instead of Steam?" from the existing gamer crowd. Yet from Facebook's persp
by haydenlee 10y ago
As seen in the comments here there's a strong reaction of "why would I ever use this instead of Steam?" from the existing gamer crowd. Yet from Facebook's perspective even if _not one_ Steam user jumps ship, they could theoretically still grow their platform to 10x the size of Steam based off just their existing Facebook userbase. That's tremendous upside and seems completely worth the risk.
- serg_chernata 10y agoI have to agree, the sheer numbers of people Facebook has access to could crush Steam in terms of active users. I love Steam and think Facebook has enough of my information as it is but you can't ignore these numbers.
- usrusr 10y agoWhy can't you ignore them? The Catholic church also has a very high number of users and you surely ignore those wrt competing with Steam. The Vatican is certainly in an even worse position to convert users to game shoppers, but I don't think that Facebook is that far ahead in this. People have pretty much stabilised in how they expect their relationship with Facebook to be and any offers to extend it to new grounds are likely to be ignored. When Farmville happened, Facebook users were a lot more experimental.