The Facebook game application will stop working

The company announced in an in-app notification that both the Android and iOS versions of this application will stop working on October 28. Meta also gave users the opportunity to download their search data and reminded them that Facebook Game will not be removed completely and that users can go to the game tab in the main Facebook app and go live. See their popular titles.

According to Aetna from ISNA, Meta (former Facebook) released a dedicated game application in 2020 to better compete with Twitch and YouTube. The company did not announce the reason for the decision to close this application, but it is probably done in order to reduce costs to help pass the recession.

According to the Engget website, over the past years, providers of live broadcast tools have reported that Facebook’s game application is second only to Twitch, but a review of the social monitoring platform and content discovery of CrowdTangle indicates that the application Facebook game is full of spam and copyright infringing content. At that time, Meta’s spokesperson said that the company is working to improve its tools to identify illegal content.