PC only. is this 2004?
more specifically, Windows only.
So... 2001
Gameroom
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Re: Gameroom
#32Facebook could do something so powerful and fun by seamlessly combining their social platform and games... But this is what they've come up with?
This kinda happened in 2007... hence Words With Friends, FarmVille, etc. In retrospect it seems bizarre that random developers were able to publish updates with our own icons to the main Newsfeed.
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#33How infuriatingly presumptious. The page has a single screenshot, a meaningless blurb, and an an "install now" button - as if I'm going to automatically download and install every single thing Facebook announces. How about even a bare-minimum attempt at explaining what this is all about? (I mean, yes, I know how to google and figure it out, but should I have to?)
It looks like one of those game pop-up ads - only full-screen. Yeah, I am going to install you crappy client to download your crappy freemium games.
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#34Looks like they changed the name from facebook arcade. The help in my language refers to it as arcade.
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#35This looks like a glorified browser for games that are already playable on browser. It doesn't seem to be optimized for gaming at all (it even feels laggier). Is the purpose of it just to increase discoverability of Facebook games? This is disappointing. When I read Facebook bought Gameroom.com a couple weeks ago, I expected something related to their VR platform. Not this.
It's even weirder that they've launched this platform completely separate from the Oculus platform. I understand the marketing reasons for this. Oculus has to not require a Facebook login, while Gameroom does, Oculus is VR only, etc. But you'd think maybe Gameroom could have Oculus support without too much blow back from Reddit? Facebook seems to be following the time honored big tech company tradition of having diff…
Who would want to tarnish the Oculus brand with Facebook's "social" slot games?
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#36Is Facebook GameRoom the new Yahoo Games?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The android version? I've only used the Windows 10 and iOS versions, so I am not aware of what permissions it asks for.
For Android (and for Windows Phone) it requires permissions to pretty much everything. It's pretty evil in that regard.
It's all related to features in the app at least, it's not like they're asking for things they don't need to make all the features work. I might call SMS unnecessary but that's because I don't really want to use it for SMS.
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#38Is Facebook GameRoom the new Yahoo Games?
Exactly what I felt. As always - history repeats itself.
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#39> From shooters to strategy, builders to bingo, find your game in Gameroom, designed for PC gaming.
I just can't see this competing with Steam and Origin. It took years for Origin to get as much acceptance as it has in the PC market, and it started with AAA games people wanted - not "Oz: Broken Kingdom" and "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Slots". Origin still gets crap because it isn't Steam.
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#40PC only. is this 2004?
It says "Designed for PC Gaming", why would it release elsewhere?