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However, the chance to play a mafia style game for free has my interest peaked and makes me wonder if World of Warcraft is in for a new slew of subscribing members losses. I am an Activision Blizzard shareholder ( ATVI) but have never gotten into the World of Warcraft, Starcraft, or Diablo games on the computer. Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, has been outspoken about the thirty percent that both Apple ( AAPL) and Facebook take for a portion of the games it develops.įor me as a fan of The Godfather movies, the game has my interest peaked and will probably become another time consumer on the internet. The deal signed today may however have social gaming companies, especially small ones in revenue and number of games, consider following Kabam’s lead in using Google+ at least initially. Zynga actually attempted to move away from the Facebook model but ended up coming back and signed a five year agreement to keep its games on Facebook and make its games use the Facebook credits purchasing system to buy virtual goods. Will this move by Kabam have Facebook question its new Facebook credits and lofty thirty-percent revenue cut model? The answer of course is probably not. I actually came across an advertisement for the game today when updating my Fantasy Hockey team on Yahoo (YHOO).

Google will target advertisements to draw traffic to the game and actually has more to gain by creating ads that try and get users to purchase virtual goods. The fact that Google only has 28 games available for play on its social platform could be good news for Kabam as its game will likely not get lost amongst Facebook’s massive network of social games. Google on the other hand has 40 million registered users for its Google+ social network. Kabam of course with this deal loses a shot at attracting a partial base of the 800 million users Facebook currently has. The Godfather is one of hundreds of social games online that are offered for free to players. With this deal it may become apparent that online game makers are sick of paying the hefty premium Facebook credits carry. Zynga (ZYNG) for example previously paid two to ten percent revenue cut on virtual goods bought in its games. The company recently rolled out Facebook credits and made then mandatory for all game developers to use for games being played on Facebook. Facebook in comparison charges thirty percent of virtual good sales for games on its network. The big difference and possible reason for the deal is the five percent revenue cut Google will be taking in on virtual goods sold in The Godfather game. Google will support the deal by doing what it does best, advertising online to gain traffic to the game. The game is exclusive to Google and will not be available on Facebook for users to play for forty five days. Three of those games are also amongst the games offered on Google+. The company’s previous five games (Dragons of Atlantis, Edgeworld, Global Warfare, Glory of Rome, Kingdoms of Camelot) are all available to play on Facebook. The interesting part of this move is that Kabam, the developer and owner of the social game, chose Google over Facebook. The game is The Godfather: Five Families. Google ( GOOG) recently launched a new massive multiplayer online game on its networks for free.

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