SOCO Games Players Making a Difference in the World of Facebook Games.

Sept. 17, 2010 - PRLog -- Facebook just passed 500 million users in July and 83% of these users are playing games. In a very short time this has become a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide.  All evidence indicates, as the industry defines itself and the comfort level in “virtual economies” increases, that this is just the beginning.  By harnessing this momentum, SOCO Games out of Melbourne, is not only creating entertaining games but is also empowering their players to make a real difference.

All of the games developed by SOCO Games, starting with Earth 2.0 to launch October 2010, will have a mechanism that will automatically extract a percentage of revenue directly into the SOCO Games Players Fund as people play.  On a monthly basis the money in the Fund will be distributed to organizations around the world as decided by the players.  “We wanted to create a simple way that our players could feel good just by playing our games, “says CEO and co-founder Jeff Bogensberger. “It was also important to us that trying to do our little bit was built into how we do business.  That is why we extract the money before we get our hands on it.”


To highlight further this exploding yet, relatively unknown market, here are some interesting stats:

•   Farmville, a popular Facebook game makes approximately $38 Million dollars a month (or $456 million a year)
•   Zynga Games, the makers of Farmville started in July 2007 and are now estimated to be worth $5 billion.
•   There are more people playing Farmville than there are Twitter accounts
•   The biggest demographic of game players is 40-50 year old women
•   80% of game players are over the age of 30
•   The demographic split is 55% female and 45% males


SOCO Games was founded in 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.  It has an office in Montreal, Canada as well. Starting with Earth 2.0 in October 2010, SOCO Games develops entertaining social network games.  It also started the SOCO Games Players Fund that supports organizations around the world as decided by game players.

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SOCO Games was founded in 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. It has an office in Montreal, Canada as well. Starting with Earth 2.0 in October 2010, SOCO Games develops entertaining social network games. It also started the SOCO Games Players Fund that supports organizations around the world as decided by game players. For more information go to www.socogames.com