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The target audience for Gameroom is not the same as the target audience for Steam; it's the people who play Farmville or Words with Friends - not the product of Triple-A game producers.

Think parents of Steam players, if not Steam players themselves. Sure, there will be some bleedover - after a long day of ganking noobs and insulting moms, some people think it's nice to sit down to a casual game and buy a vowel or a cow.

If FB can make Gameroom stick around, it will be profitable. Farmville has stuck around for 7 years now and most people would snerk at the idea that it's "a real game". But it's target audience doesn't care about the snark. They have fun.

The real worry here should be how FB is losing it's focus with the shopping pages and the social pages and the game hub and the blah and the blah.

You know, just like what happened with AOL and Yahoo. They were big for a long time, and then they suddenly don't matter much anymore.