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All shutting down Google+ Games means is that the integration of web games with the Google+ UI is going away in favor of piecemeal integration. Google+ Games is essentially the old Facebook model that even Facebook-linked games are using less, the new model (supported by Google Play Game Services, Google+ SSO, the Google+ Moments API, etc.) is of games (quite often native mobile games rather than web games) that interact with a support platform through a sign-on API, cloud services that provide saves/multiplayer toos/leaderboards/acheivements, and systems that allow integration with social network news feeds.



This actually makes sense.

The Google play services do seem to offer more.

But do I trust Google's services (especially ones that are open, although I doubt this is or was the case with games) anymore?

No. I trust them about as much as I trust any company's services.

I just didn't think Google were any company, until recently.




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