Facebook announced that Zynga’s payments to the social network dropped 20 percent in the last quarter, while payments from other gaming companies have increased by 40 percent. Facebook’s revenues were up 32 percent for the third quarter, but the company posted a net loss of $59 million.

“Overall, gaming on Facebook isn’t doing as well as I’d like, but the reality is that there are actually two different stories playing out here,” said Zuckerberg. “On the one hand, our payments revenue from Zynga decreased by 20 per cent this quarter compared to last year. But the interesting thing is that the rest of the games ecosystem has actually been growing.

“Our monthly payments revenue from the rest of the ecosystem increased 40 per cent over the past year since payments has been adopted,” he added. “This evolution is pretty encouraging.”

Source: GamesIndustry International