Meta is shutting down its Facebook Gaming app

Meta is shutting down the independent Facebook Gaming app. You will need to go through the Facebook app to use it. This is definitely to reduce operating costs.

Meta has begun notifying its users that its standalone Facebook Gaming app will soon be unavailable. In a notice sent through the app, shared by social media consultant Matt Navarra and other publications, the company announced that the iOS and Android versions of the app will stop working as of October 28th.

Meta shuts down Facebook Gaming indie app

Meta also offers users the option to upload their data and reminds them that Facebook Gaming won’t disappear forever. Users just need to go to the Games tab of the main Facebook app to watch streams from their favorite creators.

You will need to go through the Facebook app to use it.

In 2020, the company rolled out its gaming app to better compete with Twitch and YouTube. Meta, which was still Facebook at the time, conceived and developed this app to highlight streamer content and offer users chat and other community features. The Menlo Park firm did not explain why the decision was made to close the standalone app, but it may have been to cut costs and make it easier to overcome what Mark Zuckerberg calls “one of the worst crashes [the company has ever seen] in history.”Lately”.

This is definitely to reduce operating costs

Over the past year, streaming tool providers such as StreamElements have reported that Facebook Gaming is second only to Twitch in hours watched on the gaming streaming platform. However, when analyzing data from CrowdTangle, Meta’s analytics service, we see that the platform is rife with spam and pirated content masquerading as live video game streams. At the time, a spokesperson told Engadget that Meta was “working to improve [its] tools for identifying infringing content”so that users can enjoy a “better experience”.

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— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) August 30, 2022