Developers pulling games from Google+
Both PopCap/EA and Wooga have either pulled games from Google+ or announced plans to soon, citing low response and redirected resources.
Less than a year since launch, a few developers are pulling their games from the Google Plus service. Wooga has already pulled one of its games, and is preparing to remove two more based on lack of response. Meanwhile, PopCap is getting ready to pull Bejeweled Blitz from the service.
Wooga's Monster World was shut down in May. The company is now planning to remove Bubble Island and Diamond Dash by July 1. A representative told Joystiq that the decision was simply because "we have a much larger following on Facebook and they are active users."
PopCap told All Things D that the company will "redeploy our resources to other adaptations of Bejeweled," and added, "Google is valuable gaming partner for PopCap and EA, and we'll continue to develop for Google platforms."
Two developers don't equal an exodus, but as ATD notes, EA and Wooga are the third- and fourth-largest social game companies on Facebook, respectively. The games directory still has representation from big companies like Zynga and Rovio, but if the response continues to be underwhelming it may not make financial sense to continue supporting the platform.
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Steve Watts posted a new article, Developers pulling games from Google+.
Both PopCap/EA and Wooga have either pulled games from Google+ or announced plans to soon, citing low response and redirected resources.-
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Honestly I never knew they existed either. But I really think that the majority of people who use Google+ are older adults who see a value in G+ and using it for more then just chatting it up with your friends. I use it to follow news, other photographers, and developers. I have a few friends on it but it seems like the people on it tend to be more mature then FB which has really gone down the crapper.
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Google+ to me seems like what happens when a developer looks at something like Facebook and says "pfffff... I could write a better version in an afternoon" and attempts to do so.
Same way Google Buzz was just some knocked-out-in-an-afternoon Twitter clone.
And the fact that they keep failing seems to indicate there's more to it
(note: I know Buzz and + were not knocked out in an afternoon, but they just feel like such half-assed products, like a lot of stuff from Google these days)
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