Single, ride a scooter and desperate for love? Facebook says this game is perfect for you
Facebook joins ChinaJoy, the country’s biggest game show, for the first time
You’re probably single, ride a scooter, and are desperate for love if you like a particular Chinese martial arts mobile game.
That was the message Facebook delivered as a part of a talk on how Chinese developers can target their games outside the country at ChinaJoy, the country’s biggest game convention.
Facebook’s social network is banned inside China and last week it was apparently blocked from setting up a subsidiary inside the country. But it has a two-storey booth in the B2B section of the show in Shanghai, focused on reaching out to game developers and publishers.
In a public talk we attended, Facebook’s Tim Liu Qing spoke about one particular game: Jiang Hu Da Meng, a game about wuxia, or Chinese martial arts.
He outlined how Facebook helped the game’s publisher, NetEase, to create a strategy to bring the game to users in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. Facebook distributed ads for the game, and helped NetEase with its ad campaign by building a profile of the type of person most likely to play the game.
For this game, Facebook said the target audience were likely to make US$1,200 a month, ride a scooter, use Android, live at home with their parents… and was most likely single and desperate for love. They added the target was not likely to have a strong personality and is a follower in life.