在任天堂CEO岩田聪发表了“手机及社交游戏的廉价、邪恶论”之后，Zynga首席游戏设计师布莱恩·雷诺兹（Brian Reynolds）在GDC的多个场合中为社交游戏进行了辩护。

据游戏邦了解，雷诺兹当时身着带有Facebook标志的上衣，在10分钟的演说过程中强调，社交游戏不但是游戏，而且是好游戏。

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他表示，“我听到不少评论认为社交游戏‘不是真正的游戏，不好玩，很邪恶’的说法，但很显然，这个领域与过去的游戏行业一样，我们的游戏开发者并非仅为谋生而开发游戏。”他认为什么游戏才能算是游戏，这完全是一种主观的判断，而社交游戏损害整个行业的观点更是“一种非常错误的评价。”

游戏邦获悉，雷诺兹初次涉足社交游戏领域，是因为他喜欢Facebook，“Facebook是一个有趣的地方，我们可以和自己喜欢的人互动，我会做这些事情就是因为我认为它们是最酷的……在这里，我们可以和更多用户交流和沟通，之前还没有人通过游戏接触这么多用户。”

他认为社交游戏与其他游戏并没有什么两样，这类玩家同样要面临挑战，收集东西，与好友对决，“它备具了所有的游戏要素，这一点和所有游戏都一样。”

除此之外，他还表示社交游戏是好游戏，因为它支持玩家通过社交机制互动，“我们为玩家提供服务，社交游戏为玩家创造了互动的理由，我们为用户的沟通创造了条件。”

不过雷诺兹并没有把话说得太满，他还是承认社交游戏这一领域还很年轻，仍处于探索过程中，“我们并不是满足于现在的成就，但凭着20多年的行业经验，我可以告诉你，社交游戏确实是游戏，它们是创新而又令人兴奋的游戏。”（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Social Games Are Not Perfect But They Are Games, says Reynolds

Speaking at GDC’s annual developer rant, Zynga’s Brian Reynolds bit back at remarks made in various GDC sessions as well as Nintendo President Satoru Iwata’s keynote that social games are unhealthy, evil, or outright not games.

Wearing a Facebook shirt, Reynolds took his ten-minute rant as an opportunity to argue that social games are not just games, but good games.

“I’ve seen a lot of ‘these aren’t really games; they’re not fun; they’re evil,” said Reynolds, also taking a stab at Iwata’s keynote. “Apparently, as of yesterday, we are preventing game developers from making a living.” Reynolds said that while what is or isn’t a game is ultimately subjective, the idea that social games damage the industry “is a very false criticism.”

Reynolds first got into social games because he loved Facebook.  He said, “Facebook is a fun place. We socialize there with people we like. I got into making these things because I thought they were the coolest thing around.”

“We get to speak to larger audiences than any one has ever been able to talk to before. No one has reached this many people through games before,” said Reynolds. Reynolds sees social games as being games for all the same reasons other games are. Players face challenges; they collect things; they compete with their friends. “All these things are there and alive in social games just as they have always been there in all games.”

Further than just being games, Reynolds thinks social games are good games as they allow their players to socialize with each other. “We are doing our players a service. We are giving them a reason to socialize with each other,” he said. “We are starting their conversations.”

Reynolds did leave room for some of the criticism leveled at social games, admitting that the sector is still young and figuring things out. “Where we are is not where we want to be, but I can tell you, with twenty years industry experience, they are games. They are innovative and they are exciting.”（source:industrygamers）