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| Facebook officially launches the new game streaming app |
Facebook launched its games app and its report was released today and it was officially released by Android 2 months before the planned release.
Despite the game’s application plan to launch in June next year, the social media giant rushed to launch the app, taking advantage of the opportunity of people who were unable to exit due to the app’s popularity for the emerging coronavirus (COVID- 19) COVID-19.
The New York Times reported that Facebook plans to launch a new mobile gaming app primarily targeting live streaming and gaming streaming communities to work with competing Amazon Twitch, YouTube and Mixer platforms. Owned by Microsoft.
The new app includes unofficial games and access to the gaming community. As the newspaper notes, the app is initially available for Android and is expected to be launched for iOS Apple in the near future. approved.
"In general, investing in games has become our top priority as we see games as a form of entertainment that connects people. And entertainment is not just a form of passive consumption, but an interaction that brings people together," games manager Fiji Simo told the New York Times.
Facebook has been investing in games for many years and trying to build its broadcast community by collaborating with various content producers and organizing sporting events. Although there are a large number of Facebook users with over 2.5 billion monthly active users, they still look at Behind Twitch and YouTube runtime.
However, according to the StreamElements report, Facebook games increase and service listening time increased by 210% between December 2018 and December 2019.
Live broadcasting is an important function when running the application. The second tab provides game recognition through friend activity and category classification. The third tab contains a chat platform.
The app was released after a year and a half of testing in different markets (like Latin America and Southeast Asia). This, and the app's benefit does not support advertising, however, the New York Times reported that the company intends to earn money by charging a certain commission on donations sent by viewers to the broadcaster.