MySpace may be getting its arse handed to it by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, but the former king of social networks believes it has an ace up its sleeve -- it's going to get into games. Those in charge of the site that popularized annoying sparkly .gifs believes that MySpace will grow into a prominent online gaming platform.
"MySpace is and will be more in the future a gaming platform, a space for people to meet and play games," says News Corp digital boss Jonathan Miller. "None of the traditional media conglomerates are also significant videogame players, so to speak, and I think that that's the missing piece of the equation, particularly when you see how much time is spent playing games online. If you look at the big activities online, games right now is number three. Communications, search, games. So it's clearly going to be a major focus."
I believe he missed out "porn," but MySpace's camwhores are practically filling that role already.
Would you pay attention to MySpace if it tried to become a viable gaming platform? Would such plans succeed? Considering the fact that MySpace can't even seem to keep its sh*t together as a social network ("Unexpected Errors" became a misnomer when I used maintain a page), I dread to think how those in charge would handle online games.
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11:00 PM on 07.25.2009
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Poor MySpace,it died as soon as Facebook came around in popularity. That's too bad, since Facebook sucks for music, but whatever, it's just another social networking site that'll die one day just like Facebook and Twitter will.
Sucks they have to do everything they can to keep people coming back, but that's how this shit works. Maybe someone from LiveJournal should call them up and let them know.
And yes, I would pay attention to MySpace trying to be a viable gaming platform, all the way to its inevitable failure in its attempt following shortly after.
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This has apsolutly no relevance to this post. BUT! Mr. Sterling I just saw this now (2am Sunday 26th) and hopefully I am the first to inform you. But your all time favorite game is now 50% off on steam. That masturbating motion you do when you had your first hands on demo with Bayonetta back at E3 will be three times as fast with the info I am about to give you...... Velvet Assassin is the game I am talking about and you could pick up another copy for just 24.99.
@Pascus46
WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT! I had forgotton about that lump of crap!
i think it would be a major success if they created a huge MMO project similar to home only on a city scale.
make sence?
But let them do their thing,in hopes of changing something.
But if they copied Raptr instead, with their existing user base, brand name and marketing reach, that could be interesting. I'd like to see exactly what my friends are playing across platforms at any given second. At least it would be good as a novelty for a while.
Surprised me...
BRACE FOR IMPACT
fuck i mean he aint shit