By Thomas Neanderthal
"12 per cents of our total revenue in 2011, and less than 10 percent in 2010 and 2009, came from a single customer, Zynga. This revenue consisted of payments processing fees related to Zynga’s sales of virtual goods and from direct advertising purchased by Zynga. In May 2010, we entered into an addendum to our standard terms and conditions with Zynga pursuant to which it agreed to use Facebook Payments as the primary means of payment within Zynga games played on the Facebook Platform. Under this addendum, we retain a fee of up to 30% of the face value of user purchases in Zynga’s games on the Facebook Platform. This addendum expires in May 2015."
Zynga enviously got in specific covenant alongside Facebook. They even threatened to get out of Facebook all together. Zynga did make a covenant with Google to apply online games in Google to offset their reliance on Facebook. 2015 is undoubtedly mild time away in social networking time. Yet, if the Zynga/Google partnership can cause a dimple in Facebook's social online gaming dominance Zynga will obtain much more negotiating strength to shrink the 30 percent rate.
"When users purchase virtual and digital goods from our Platform developers using our Payments infrastructure, we receive fees that represent a portion of the transaction value. Currently, substantially all of the Payments transactions between our users and Platform developers are for virtual goods used in social games, for example virtual tractors in the social game FarmVille. According to an industry source, the worldwide revenue generated from the sale of virtual goods increased from $2 billion in 2007 to $7 billion in 2010, and is forecasted to increase to $15 billion by 2014. Payments integration is currently required in apps on Facebook that are categorized as games, and we may seek to extend the use of Payments to other types of apps in the future. Our future revenue from Payments will depend on many factors, including our success in enabling Platform developers to build experiences that engage users and create user demand for their products, and the fee arrangements we are able to negotiate in the future."
Facebook is obviously thinking about ways it is capable to encourage "press" virtually all online business bargains through its payment system. Fantastic belief actually if perhaps they are able to pull it off. Facebook's actual reliance on social game apps to make virtually all its online currency earning is truly dangerous, even more so in case Zynga torments to withdraw from Facebook until the fees are reduced. The more Facebook dominates the Business online world calling for all businesses or companies to include a presence in Facebook the more seemingly this will occur.
Summary
The Facebook S-1 does not necessarily expose much more than most followers of Facebook currently discover. The reliance upon social game apps for Facebook's long-lasting evolution is evident. Combine the advertising incomes generated in social games with their online currency coupled with items sales will expose a significantly higher reliance on gaming apps then the S-1 has made known. From an financier viewpoint impeding legislation to supervise virtual currency deals may have a sizable effect on Facebook's earning in case many of the social gamers are underneath the age of 18. The outcome of gambling in Facebook could be paradoxical adding an alternative revenue stream as well as resulting in regulation of existing online currency deals. Even though Zynga has produced a fortune off Facebook they have besides that end up being a prisoner of this relationship. They have to carefully consider how they can broaden outside of Facebook to eliminate their own threat as well as to increase incomes beyond Facebook. This implies that Facebook should, and is intending to diminish, its financial resources reliance upon Zynga by building digital currency beyond on-line games and to drive to gain market portion with Asian gaming apps publishers.
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