Google+ losing key game developers

Actually, Google+ is doing fine as far as I can tell. The main issue is that, by default, all your posts are essentially "private" if you post to a circle. That means that a lot of the best conversations are hidden away from casual viewers. Once you get into the right circles, however, you can find some great communities. I've found a lot of great tabletop RPG conversations on Google+ with fans, indies, and professional developers. But, most of these posts are made to people that have been specifically put into a "tabletop RPG" circle to keep their professional and hobby lives separate in many cases. The reason you see the "Google+ is dead" stories is because when you compare the number of public posts on Google+ with Facebook, you find a lot more on Facebook.

As for games, I go to Google+ to talk with others who share my interests. Games felt like too solitary an activity to me; if I wanted to play a game I could fire up Steam rather than playing Bejeweled Blitz. Google+ also doesn't let game spam your stream like Facebook let games spam your wall, so there's not as bit of a "viral" (*cough*) element to it. So, yeah, trying to port your Facebook games to Google+ will result in disappointing numbers. Not surprising to me, really.

G+ is great, it has many superb features (often better than Facebook) and Google have twisted lots of arms to get people to join so it has lots of members.
The big problem is user generated content. Google haven't found a compelling reason for people to use it to put stuff on.

Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, YouTube, Facebook and Pinterest have all succeeded, by different mechanisms, to get their users to generate lots of content. This is why these services thrive despite lacking the corporate horsepower of Google.

So G+ is still waiting the "killer app" that will give it relevance to a large audience.

I think the point is that it is running out of time. Soon it will become Wave2.0 :(

but that's also with facebook, the posts being essentially "private" unless you're a friend.. Personally I don't know anyone who actually USES google+, yes they have google+ due to them having gmail and they checked it out when it was introduced, but almost noone actually uses it..

Google + is actually growing rapidly... it's up to 170 million monthly users. Still, it's hard for social game developers to be profitable even on the enormous Facebook, so it's easy to see why they need to back away from G+ till it's bigger.

I tend to use g+ more as a reddit type website, rather than a facebook replacement. It gives great content, but why would I ever play games on it?