With the current pandemic leading to lockdown, everyone seems to be stressing on social distancing. Gaming Industry seems to be natural in providing the users with the idea of social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. Thus a number of video game and technology companies including Google and Facebook are working in alliance with the global health body – WHO to promote the idea of social distancing to keep people apart. While the technology giants are seen relatively with newer versions of video games to leverage this business. Both the tech giants including Facebook and Google are now making the moves to showcase the idea of how it could be wise for them to leverage this opportunity with several people at home for grabbing the share of the gaming market.
Now, one can see the social media giant coming out with the new feature this week, which allows the users to create tournaments with general people and friends playing from home in the game including Frotnite and Activision Blizzard’s “Call of Duty: Warzone.” It was originally created for the esports gaming feature that works in the very same way to develop an event on the social media site allowing the users to design tournaments which update brackets along with the leaderboards and thus raise the money for charity for COVID-19 relief. The idea can be effective for the consumers of Facebook claims Laurel Walzak, a professor at Ryerson University who has an expertise in gaming.
Talking about the same, he said that Facebook is offering the users a great opportunity to get engaged with each other while it is also offering more loyalty to the brand. Google on the other side claimed that it is offering a two months free subscription for its higher-end Stadia Pro gaming service, which renders access to nine games like the cult hit Destiny 2. It was seen launching at Stadia last November. If the gaming companies are seen offering to cater people with the free trials, they will help in integrating them in several services that further help in building the relationship with their consumers, the professor. He further added saying that not just people who are keen on it but others who are looking for an alternate kind of entertainment too are getting the chance to participate.
Similarly, the other tech company Twitch owned by Amazon is also a popular website that offers the gamers enjoy live streaming options thus giving the gamers to offer the Amazon Prime subscribers along with Twitch users to enjoy games. So, it has five free games that are worth 100 USD and can be enjoyed a lot by the users in the lockdown period. The games include Turok, which happens to be a remastered version of the nineties shooting game, and the other called“Earthlock,” which happens to be an indie role-playing game. The other game Twitch seemed to have a huge amount of users amidst the coronavirus outbreak and people for the stay-at-home in the US.