Zynga today revealed plans for the Zynga Platform and Zynga.com, details of which we first learned about this past October. Put simply, Zynga’s new website will grant players access to a number of games available on Facebook while providing additional features that could make playing much more pleasant.
Playing games on Zynga.com — when it launches later this month CastleVille, Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, CityVille, and Hidden Chronicles will be playable — will require a Facebook account and purchases will be made using Facebook Credits thanks to a deal Zynga has with Facebook running through 2015. That means Facebook isn’t being abandoned as a home for Zynga games; this is merely an alternative (and a potentially more attractive one at that) for playing the company’s games. Any progress you’ve made in CastleVille or any other game will be present when playing on the Zynga Platform as it is not a separate instance of the game being run on Zynga’s website.
