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Opinion: Signs Of Life, Maturity In Social Games

The Facebook gaming platform has never existed other than beneath a certain pall of anxiety. At first, it suffered from the perception that its games weren’t “really” games. Then, once Facebook games were brought into the fold and accorded a grudging acknowledgement from the industry, they contended with being viewed as manipulative, cheap slot machines. Now the prevailing concern is that the intense, metrics-driven business exists in an unsustainable bubble. The market dominance of a …