I don't know why but this news feels very old.

Facebook games aren't games you play with your friends, these are games based on simply abusing your friends as a resource. 

Facebook games are the worst kind of game out there - pay for content, or make friends play this game to earn your ingame cash.

seriously, i feel insulted as a gamer that the consoles i like so much are mentioned in comparison with fucking facebook games. (Not to say that facebook itself is a bad thing, i like using it) - but whoever complained about MMOs making addictive, should throw an Eye on Social games. these arent social at all. end of the fucking story before i nerdrage around.

PS: I am pretty sure that there are more people who have games activated on their accounts compared to the total ammount of Consoles sold  - i mean, i played ravenwood fair on it for a month or so. and i had 70 ingame Pal's. the thing was, 55 of them were inactive, those were people from my friendlist  i invited them to the game, simply because inviting someone grants bonuses. but infact, those 55 'players' never touched this game more than a minute . still, they are registered.

It's an entirely different product. Toyota doesn't go around bragging about how it sells more cars than Airbus does aeroplanes.

This guy needs to shut up of course you have more gamers as he would call them you have over 800 million users. And those people playing your "games" don't play them like people with consoles do. Heck i wouldn't even call facebook games games.

Fair enough, but let me put it another way.  The average Call of Duty sells ~20 million copies, and it costs $60 for the most basic version.  In order to play it, people also have to go out to the store and by it, which deters some people.

Regardless of things like microtransactions, but I can guarantee that most of those alleged 200 million players do not spend $60 on in-game Facebook items.  There are certainly some people who spend a great deal more than that, but I promise you the average amount someone spends on Facebook games is much less than an average console game.

What I'm trying to say is, if Call of Duty can sell 20 million copies at a minimum of $60, then we can't even imagine how many players it would have if it was free and available at one click.

Nintendo and Sony combined, maybe yes!

but Microsoft!? everyone who has a Pc has played at least solitaire...or are the facebook apps more gamish than solitaire?

I wonder how many of them spend 500 euro + on games per year ;)

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If you don't have friends to abuse, you could also pay for it.