Facebook并不是社交游戏的唯一归宿。这一观点有点疯狂却是事实。昨天在伦敦社交游戏峰会上，Playdom公司的资深运营副总裁Paul LaFontaine指出“Facebook不是唯一的社交游戏平台”。尽管所有业内人士都深知这一事实，但很难想象在Facebook以外的地方进行社交游戏，不是吗？

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目前Playdom，OMOpop和Zynga等游戏开发公司都分别为自己旗下的热门游戏开设了独立的游戏网站，但究竟有多少人愿意不通过Facebook到那些网站上玩游戏呢？虽然现在各大游戏开发商不遗余力地想摆脱对Facebook网站的过分依赖，但我们很难想象其他平台可以从Facebook抢走玩家。然而，近来Facebook在关闭了病毒式传播渠道的基础上，又与各大游戏开发公司签订了瓜分30%营收的5年合约。Facebook需要多家小心，不要吓跑游戏开发商才是。

对此，LaFontaine在伦敦提出“尽管Facebook在人们的日常生活中占有重要地位，但今时今日我们还不能确定它是否已经取得社交-手机领域的胜利”。的确如此，迄今为止社交游戏行业出现最多才3年时间，说哪个平台取得了最终胜利还为时尚早。已出现近30年的电子游戏领域目前也没有任何平台可以发表此胜利宣言——不同年代人们衷情于不同平台。

虽然现在Facebook统领着社交游戏领域，但没人可以预料2011年是否会发生风云变化。作为一名游戏玩家，我们也不妨想想未来的两年我们将在哪里玩FarmVille呢？（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Facebook isn’t the only place to play social games. It’s crazy, we know, but it’s true. Playdom’s senior vice president of operations Paul LaFontaine said, “Facebook’s not the only game in town,” today at the Social Gaming Summit in London. While anyone who follows the industry would know that, it’s tough to even consider playing these games somewhere else, isn’t it?

Developers like Playdom, OMGpop and even Zynga offer some of their games right on their respective websites, but how many gamers actually go there to play these games when they’re readily available from their Facebook home page? It’s strange to think about Facebook actually losing players to some other platform, but some developers are doing everything they can to escape. With the 30 percent the network takes from the currency that it imposes with 5-year deals to how it’s essentially shut down the main avenue for players to find new games, Facebook better be careful before it scares everyone away.

“It plays an important part in our lives but it’s premature to declare a victory for Facebook in social-mobile at this time,” LaFontaine said in London. And he’s got a point. People were premature in declaring a victory for MySpace five years ago, so who’s to say that Facebook is impervious to at least losing its player base? Social gaming has only been around for about three years at best, which is far too early to name an ultimate platform. Console gaming has been around for over thirty years and that’s still an impossibility–it literally shifts with every generation and sometimes in the middle of them.

While Facebook dominates in the social gaming space today, who knows what might happen in 2011. As gamers, it’s surely something worth thinking about. Where will you be playing FarmVille in two years? （Source：Games.com）