Facebook announced the change of the most popular games in social networks

As a result of 2011's most popular online game on Facebook has become Gardens of Time, developed by Playdom. As reported by BBC B, it is ahead of the recent leaders of the Cityville and Farmville, created by the developer Zynga. However, to obtain the title of the most popular Facebook game game Gardens of Time helped not only users, but a change in method of calculation. Representatives of the world's most popular social networks have become not only consider the number of active players, but the number of the recommendations of the game. "The list (the most popular online games of the year - Ed.) Was made on the basis of the top games on Facebook with more than 100 thousand active users per month, priority was given to the games with the highest level of satisfaction with the players. The result is a list of games that have received most Custom recommendations in 2011, "- according to a blog social network. Note that the second place in the list of most popular games won this year, The Sims Social (developer - Electronic Arts), third - Cityville (Zynga). Then come Doubledown Casino (Doubledown Interactive), Indiana Jones Adventure World (Zynga) and Words With Friends (Zynga). Results in the top ten were four games from the developer Zynga, which recently conducted IPO. In the top 10 has not got the game Farmville. Note that according to estimates of Appdata, which has traditionally been concerned only with the number of active users, the most popular on Facebook are created by Zynga game Cityville, Castleville, Farmville, and Texas Holdem. In this case Gardens of Time, according to Appdata, occupies only 14th place (8.5 million players per month vs. 48.8 players in Cityville). Some experts and bloggers have found a strange new method of determining the most popular games, selected members of Facebook. However, it immediately found an explanation. According to mpetsialistov, a social network is trying to promote their own analytical tools based on the amount of user guidance and sharing agreement.