[quote=http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_598630.html]
SAN FRANCISCO - ELECTRONIC Arts said Tuesday that it has reached a five-year agreement with Facebook that calls for the social network's virtual currency to be the exclusive payment method for EA games.
More than 200 million people play games on Facebook every month and 'Pet Society' and 'Restaurant City' from EA division Playfish are among the top 10 games on the social network. The Redwood City, California-based videogame maker bought the London-based Playfish, the largest supplier of Facebook games after Zynga, a year ago for up to US$400 million (S$515.1 million).
EA said the five-year 'strategic relationship' with Facebook calls for Facebook Credits to be the sole currency used to purchase virtual goods in EA games. EA said it will receive the standard 70 per cent of the revenue from Facebook Credits with Facebook getting 30 per cent.
'Since gaming has emerged as the most popular category of applications on Facebook, the natural next step is for EA to broaden its relationship with Facebook and its 500 million users,' EA Interactive senior vice-president and general manager Barry Cottle said in a statement.
'We are pleased to enter into this long-term partnership with EA to make it easier for people to purchase virtual goods across some of the most popular games on Facebook,' said Dan Rose, vice-president of partnerships and platform marketing at Facebook.
'Playfish has a great reputation for building high-quality games on Facebook, and we look forward to working even more closely with them and the larger team at EA,' Mr Rose said. EA also plans to bring Monopoly, Pogo, Scrabble and Boggle to Facebook. Popular EA videogame titles include 'Rock Band,' "Madden NFL10' and 'The Sims.' EA shares were up 1.20 per cent in afternoon trading in New York at US$15.99
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The fuck is this shit?!
Deleting facebook now...
the fuck is this shit
:psyboom:
[QUOTE=Mazakrov;25819427]the fuck is this shit[/QUOTE]
Can someone actually explain what the fuck is this shit?
what the
wat
Didn't see this coming.
EA's goin mainstream
You don't make the big money by catering to a small population of hardcore gaymers
wat th---
[QUOTE]'Since [b]gaming[/b] has emerged as the most popular category of applications on [b]Facebook[/b][/QUOTE]lol
Just when EA started to get some of its credibility back..
[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;25819594]EA's goin mainstream
You don't make the big money by catering to a small population of hardcore gaymers[/QUOTE]
I don't think tens of millions of Facebook "gamers" is such a small population.
They haven't added FPS's guys. Nothing of credibility has been lost yet.
Kill zukerburg!
I'll be able to trade in my tier 9 armor for a Volkswagen then?
Is it like MS points?
Get ready for FarmVille to be in stores
I got addicted to FarmVille once.
i guess that explains those facebook cards at target then
yesssss I've been waiting for this forever! :xd: FB GAMING FTW!!!!
[QUOTE=lum1naire;25820225]yesssss I've been waiting for this forever! :xd: FB GAMING FTW!!!![/QUOTE]
:xd: FB SO KAWAII
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;25820268]:xd: FB SO KAWAII[/QUOTE]
fuck off eh
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;25820268]:xd: FB SO KAWAII[/QUOTE]
ZUCKERBERG FTW NYAAAAA :xd:
Now all my friends can know how much I play video games!
the only good thing I expect out of this is less farmville requests.
seriously, who in their right mind would pay for [i]Farmville[/i]?
facebook is the stupidest thing ever
[QUOTE=lum1naire;25820308]fuck off eh[/QUOTE]
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I simply cannot understand why Zynga and these other companies get so popular. Facebook must be full of enough retards to play these games and buy shit from them
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