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18/08/2011 by
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War On Facebook: End Of Zynga’s Leadership?

New folks arrived on Facebook where game developer Zynga (Farmville, Maffiawars, Bejeweled) is ruling Social Gaming at the moment. Electronic Arts has entered the field with The Sims. Will it bite off a fair amount of playtime from Zynga’s flagships?

The game will be competitive to the Zynga games in many ways. EA now teamed up with their people behind Playfish to get the best out of this most successful game in a new online version.


The Sims Social

Disregarding the fact that the original game had millions of addicted players, EA already has a gigantic fan-base on Facebook on its own. So introducing this online variant of the success story to their own crowd is almost like feeding the beast its favorite meal.

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The game itself is quite nifty designed as well. It parallels the requirements of a game which casual gamers have: Easy to play, no hick-ups or long loading times and entertaining for hours and hours or seconds and seconds, depending on the time window somebody has.

So will this mean the end of Zynga dominating Social Gaming on Facebook? With The Sims Social this question is justified to be asked!

A fair 4.8 million Facebook users subscribed, did you?