Games on Facebook have increasingly become an important part of revenue for the social gaming site. Yet despite the fact that roughly 200 million of the 500 million users on the site use it monthly for games, there’s no dedicated division to games… yet.
Facebook has announced its intentions to hire someone who would deal directly with these gaming companies. The person will report to Ethan Beard, director of the Facebook Developer Network, and will seek to give better support to the burgeoning gaming community on Facebook.
“Gaming is very popular on Facebook and important for us,” said Beard. “Hundreds of millions of our users are playing games. We continue to invest resources in teams and product necessary to make our platform a good one for game developers and gamers.”
“One of the problems game developers have had is the same as many users have had: sudden changes to the platform without warning, affecting their business. Game developers want more transparency on the evolution of Facebook itself and more input into its creation.”
“We are a much younger company, and our open platform is only three years old,” Beard said. “We have evolved from the classic two guys in a garage. As those social game companies have grown up, we have to evolve what our team looks like as well. Hopefully, we will become more and more predictable when it comes to games.”
“It’s a great opportunity for a superstar to shape how we work with our partners in the social gaming space,” he added about the job.
Source: VentureBeat {link no longer active}
