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Google Adds Games To Google+

Posted by Soulskill on from the tic-tac-toe-better-have-an-i'm-feeling-lucky-button dept.

derGoldstein writes with this quote from the official Google blog: "Today we're adding games to Google+. ... We want to make playing games online just as fun, and just as meaningful, as playing in real life ... When you're ready to play, the Games page is waiting — click the games button at the top of your stream. You can see the latest game updates from your circles, browse the invites you've received and check out games that people you know have played recently. The Games page is also where your game accomplishments will appear. So you can comfortably share your latest high score — your circles will only see the updates when they're interested in playing games too."

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  1. Google+ by zget · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At least Google isn't dumb enough to forget that people want to play games and spend times on social networking sites. It's also interesting to see that Zynga is there.. There goes two usual slashdot arguments straight out of the window, one being that Zynga is somehow completely relies on Facebook and that Google+ is in some way different social network than Facebook. It is currently, but only because they're lagging behind in development. And to be honest, the place is completely dead without casual people, games and pages. The latter one they still need to add too.

    Google+ is so direct copy of Facebook that it isn't even funny. The whole thing even looks almost exactly the same, just that it has different colors and is lacking features that Facebook has. What exactly is Google trying to archieve here? They aren't innovating, they're just copying. I rather don't have everything about me known by a single company, so I like to use Facebook much more than let Google know all my personal details, my friends, my web searches, my YouTube views, my emails and every site I visit on the internet (via Google Analytics). Putting that much information to a single company is just plain stupid, especially when they just a few days ago revealed they're been secretly handing European citizens information to US agencies, even when it's illegal to do so in the EU.

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    Google+ vs. Facebook, and why Google+ will fail
    1. Re:Google+ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Circles, privacy options, hangouts, and keeping games/apps out of the normal social areas.

      How is Google+ an exact copy of Facebook with less features again?

    2. Re:Google+ by Pieroxy · · Score: 5, Informative

      For the other end it's also not that complicated to block those updates.

      No it's not simple. I mostly access my social networks from my phone, and the mobile app doesn't have an X. So I get constantly annoyed by this crap and it forces me to go and log in on my PC to disable it. Then another game takes over. It's a never ending battle to keep facebook usable.

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    3. Re:Google+ by mcvos · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Keep in mind that Facebook didn't invent social networks either. I just checked, and apparently Orkut is actually a month older than Facebook.

    4. Re:Google+ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Separate profiles? I don't think you understand how relationships work. The status of my various contacts is _not_ static: co-workers became friends, friendships get broken, etc. Separate profiles are totally unable to cope with that seamlessly and most importantly invisibly to the contact in question. My contacts do not need to know how much information I'm giving them / keeping from them.

  2. Google Apps? by richy+freeway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about just getting the hell on with it and adding support for Google Apps users? Once again we're left lagging behind!

  3. Re:Farmville+ by rbrausse · · Score: 4, Funny

    brausse@auedv23:~$ echo $DEITY

    brausse@auedv23:~$

    Nietzsche was right :)

  4. The beginning of the end by broothal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sweet Jebus - that was the reason I LEFT facebook. To get rid of that crap.

    Oh well - it was fun while it lasted. IRC is still my favorite social network

    1. Re:The beginning of the end by Tridus · · Score: 5, Informative

      On the upside, this time the games spam is in its own tab. If you just read the stream, games don't appear in it.

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  5. Oh no, there goes the neighborhood by Masa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why in the hell they want to ruin Google+? I hate Facebook for two reasons:

    1) It is annoying as hell to have those game requests. And if you don't block all applications, then you have to "enjoy" the constant stream of shit, when your friends request new tools in Farmville or want to share a pony.

    2) Gaming becomes a sole purpose for using social networking site. Most of my friends don't bother to use Facebook for keeping touch or sharing interesting news or stories. They just spend time playing and filling their page with useless game-related crap.

    I lost hope with Facebook long ago and recently joined Google+ hoping that it would be different. It seems I was wrong :(

  6. Re:Farmville+ by mortonda · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fix your PATH.