LinkedIn is a social network known for providing an ideal environment for searchers Work or wants to promote their own professional activity.
Compared to many other platforms, therefore, it tends to maintain a more “detached” approach, with content aimed at similar businesses and contexts. All this has decreed the success of LinkedIn, with more than one billion users scattered throughout the world. All this, however, seems destined to change in the immediate future.
As reported by the site TechCrunchthe social network in question is working to offer gaming experiences, considered useful for retaining users on the platform.
Simply put, it seems that LinkedIn wants to ride the success of some games puzzlecome Wordletrying to win the hearts of professionals who spend hours and hours a day on your service.
The first three proposed video games, apparently, will be called Queens, Interference e Crossclimb. If what has been said so far may seem bizarre, that’s not all.
Is Microsoft pushing to offer video games on LinkedIn?
According to what was revealed by Nima Owji, a LinkedIn employee, the platform is testing a scoring system that can promote “team play” with the possibility of challenges between entire companies e relative rankings. Apparently, however, this process of gamification it is still far from its actual launch.
This move may be surprising given the nature of LinkedIn, but from another point of view it may have its own logic. The owner of the platform, in fact, is Microsoft. The Redmond giant is an important name in the video game sector given that, in addition to Xboxis also the owner of the brand Activision Blizzard.
LinkedIn, on the other hand, in recent years has shown that it always wants to integrate new features on the platform, trying to make itself more and more attractive. Despite this, this latest initiative seems to go clearly against the trend with respect to the style that has characterized this service since its creation.