新加入Facebook游戏领域的掌机游戏开发者Aaron Loeb（游戏邦注：其之前任职于Planet Moon Studios，现加盟Playfish，任公司旧金山总经理）日前在采访中表示，“面对如今的Facebook游戏，有人可能会发表这样的言论，‘我很难想象人们20年后还会玩社交游戏，它不会长久存在，这不过是个泡沫。’”Loeb表示，他对社交游戏的看法和传统游戏公司截然不同。

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Loeb表示，“社交游戏未来不会消失，只会变得越来越好，越来越强大，置身新技术发展的最前沿。我们不知道社交游戏未来将发展到什么程度，但其无疑对于游戏公司的发展及行业未来的发展起着举足轻重的作用。”（游戏邦认为，也就是说优化的社交游戏未来会延伸至更多平台，进而变得更为司空见惯。）

Loeb接着谈到掌机开发经历赋予其独特优势，他将把这些优势应用于新工作。他开发游戏注重团队建设，他将把这点带到Playfish。更重要的是，他表示自己还身处掌机领域的时候就对社交游戏的发展充满信心。如今众多传统游戏开发商对此大呼不公。也许抨击社交游戏的时代已经结束，如今迎接社交游戏的是“风雨过后的彩虹”？姑且让我们拭目以待，因为社交游戏时代就在不远处。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

New Playfish GM Aaron Loeb: ‘[Social games are] just not going away’

The next console developer to join the ranks of the Facebook game regime, Aaron Loeb–formally of Planet Moon Studios, now of Playfish–said to Gamasutra, “People might look at the Facebook games right now and say, ‘I can’t imagine that’s what people will be doing 20 years from now, ergo this will never last and it’s a bubble.’” Loeb, now the general manager of Playfish in San Francisco, claims to have never been on the traditional developers to roll their eyes in response to the social gaming movement.

In fact, Loeb said, “It’s just not going away,” he says. “In fact it’s only going to get stronger and better, and games are always at the forefront of how new technologies expand. We have no idea how huge this stuff can get, and it’s going to be unbelievably important to the growth of companies, and to the growth of the industry.” In other words, advanced social gaming is bound to expand into more devices and become simply commonplace.

Loeb went on in the interview to explain his strengths honed in his days of console development and how he plans to apply them to new position. Team building is his game, and he’s bringing it to Playfish. More important is how confident he claims to have been in social game development while working with consoles. Most traditional developers we hear are crying foul. Perhaps time for lashing out at social games is nearly over, and now the movement boons? Let’s hope, because it’s about time.（Source：Games.com）