At Echelon 2010 in Singapore yesterday and today. Vishal Gondal of Indiagames and others on the social gaming panel point out opportunities for social gaming beyond just the PC Internet and beyond Facebook specifically.
Zaki Mahomed of Game Ventures thinks that payments still is a barrier to seamless roll-out and adoption of social games in Asia and on the mobile. He says there's no one simple way across games and platforms (OSs, devices, whatever) to make it easy for users to micro-transact within games. People aren't comfortable typing their credit card numbers into a mobile social game. Vishal agrees but with the qualification that in India at least premium SMS is one way to monetise.
- Non-Facebook social networks around the world, such as Mixi, Renren, Cyworld, etc
- Mobile social games
- Interactive TV
Zaki Mahomed of Game Ventures thinks that payments still is a barrier to seamless roll-out and adoption of social games in Asia and on the mobile. He says there's no one simple way across games and platforms (OSs, devices, whatever) to make it easy for users to micro-transact within games. People aren't comfortable typing their credit card numbers into a mobile social game. Vishal agrees but with the qualification that in India at least premium SMS is one way to monetise.
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