Facebook-Zynga Relations

San Francisco - Facebook once closely associated with Zynga. If have a Facebook account, the relationship is characterized by 'In Relationship' on their profile status. But now, their relationship seems to be changed to 'It's Complicated'.

Facebook itself began to restrict the ability of Zynga on Facebook since March 2012. That is, Facebooker would rarely see Zynga game promotion. Instead, there will be more games from publishers other than Zynga.

Some time ago, Zynga is already showing indications to gradually remove the dependency on Facebook. Though a series of game such as FarmVille, becoming known and popular through Facebook.

"We streamline deal with Zynga. Thus use the Facebook platform by Zynga.com set policy similar to that applied to the whole ecosystem," said Facebook.

Facebook statement as reported by TechRadar, and we quoted on Tuesday (12/04/2012) explains, this action is only a matter of 'downsizing' agreement between the two.

Relations Zynga and Facebook started tenuous since Zynga launched its own gaming site, Zynga.com. Zynga seemed to distance themselves from Facebook, especially when social networking game publishers know that Facebook relies on Zynga reap profits in the USD 445 million per year.

"We will continue to work with Zynga, just as we do with all the game developers of all sizes," he added.

Before Facebook sign up IPO (Initial Public Offering) in May, the profit portion occupies 12 percent of the total annual income Facebook.