Angry Birds Officially Landing on Facebook

Rovio kept its promise to launch Angry Birds on Facebook coincided with Valentine's Day, on February 14th. Through the Facebook game, Rovio seems want to try different business types.

As reported by TechCrunch, Angry Birds for Facebook is a freemium game categories, like the other games that are on social networking. Users who want to play can start at no charge, but must pay if want power up. By extending payment to the application, Rovio can earn greater revenue per user, for them or for Facebook.

In the classic freemium model, users get first power up at no cost, but use  more, will make higher cost. There is Sling Scope to lock the target, Birdquake to shake up the pig on top of a tree, super Seeds to strengthen the birds, and King Sling to increase speed. For those who want a  fire bird for eternity, can buy a chance 1000 times power up usage at a price of U.S. $ 20.

Rovio also applied some increase in social features who allow users to see  their friends highest points, and invite others to compete via these sidebar flash game. Users can also send free power-up as a gift to their friends, and will appear in the form of Facebook notifications.

There is no doubt that pull Angry Birds slingshot will be more satisfying via the touch screen rather than a mouse or trackball. Power up also makes the game so easy, Rovio will need to increase the difficulty level to maintain user interest.