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Facebook Games Shed Millions of Users

By james_fudge

It would be foolhardy to say that the party is over for social networking games on Facebook, but it is apparent that the party is at least winding down. Droves of players have grown tired of some games and have disengaged from them in favor of other things apparently; Gamasutra, who does a regular accounting of Facebook game rankings, has published its latest finding on the state of play in social gaming and it does not look good.

According to the report, based on two weeks' worth of data from AppData, some of the biggest social networking games on Facebook are seeing steep declines including Farmville, Treasure Isle and Cafe World. So how bad is it for those top games made by Zynga? Pretty bad. Farmville, the most popular game on Facebook, dipped from 66.6 million to 63.9 million; Treasure Isle lost 2.5 million, and Cafe World lost 1.5 million users. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).