Social gaming has become the hottest ticket around for
operators in the online casino games industry. As Facebook recently announced
its collaboration with Gamesys to offer real money casino games, some of the
best online casino casinos are hoping to get a piece of the pie.
In early August, it was announced that Gamesys and Facebook are
joining forces to offer real money Bingo and Slots games through an application
on the social site. The announcement means that the online casino games
industry is changing in general and the way players interact with operators is
shifting as well. To this point, social gaming has mostly been on a credit
basis. The new app presented by Gamesys will have a series of 90-Ball Bingo and
Slots games.
Brian Mattingley, Chief Executive Officer of one of the best
online casinos, 888, commented about being in the first round of discussions
with Facebook over the possibility of putting its own games on the social
platform for real-money gaming opportunities.
Facebook has not commented on any developments related to
social gaming beyond the fact that it has no plans to expand the real-money
gaming opportunities on the site further than the deal it already made.
Facebook considers the partnership with Gamesys as a completely
private commercial agreement. On the present system, the social gaming company
takes
With the credit system currently, Facebook takes thirty
percent of the cost of transactions made on its system if non-cash games
players buy Facebook credits to use on the games.
