Flurry, a smartphone application analytics and monetization platform, recently released a study pertaining to social and traditional gamers. According to the study, the video gaming industry is currently transitioning; no longer are gamers between the traditional age range of 18-34. What has happened to the gaming industry over the years to make this transition, and how can we take advantage of this new direction?
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My Empire, a Facebook game developed by Playfish, seems to not being too well. According to AllFacebook.com, My Empire went from 1.4 monthly active users on January 15th to 1.1 million on February 14th. Why is that?
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Thanks to the extraordinary tech team over at AllFacebook.com, I was able to retrieve historical data on FarmVille for this particular piece. CityVillians (and other gaming analysts for that matter) believe that FarmVille has been losing massive amounts of users to the almighty and unstoppable CityVille. If the pundits are correct, CityVille must have been a thief in the night. On the other hand, critics could have done a quick and imprudent analysis of the two games that created a fallacy between these two gaming titans
As predicted earlier in the week, CityVille has reached 100 million monthly active users – 100, 064, 578 to be exact. CityVille’s reign of terror reached historical goals for the social gaming world: topping FarmVille’s highest peak of monthly active users and dethroning FarmVille from its high horse. Although, after the game’s intensifying month, it looks as though CityVille will no longer be the exciting phenomenon to discuss.
If you were to merge FarmVille’s MAU (57.7 million) with Texas Hold’em Poker’s MAU (36.1 million), you would not reach CityVille’s monthly active users of 97.8 million. Add together all the monthly active users from the bottom part of the top 10 MAU list: Cafe World (18 million), Treasure Isle (14.7 million), Pet Society (12.3 million), Millionaire City (12.2 million) and Bejeweled Blitz (11.6 million), and you would still fall short.
Garth Chouteau, Vice President of Public Relations at PopCap Games, believes that PopCap Games, Inc takes a different approach to gaming than their competitors, “At PopCap, we’re focused on building short, social iterations of our classic casual games, and continuing to grow and improve them over the long haul so they’re always getting better and never getting boring or stale.” According to Chouteau, “PopCap’s competitors seem awfully similiar, and not terribly fun — more like social interaction exercises within a ‘game’ wrapper.” These are two different methods that produce contrasting results, which produces better games?
CityVille kicks off the New Year by kicking off FarmVille from its high horse. According to AllFacebook.com, CityVille has surpassed FarmVille as Facebook’s biggest game ever. CityVille, currently with 84.2 million monthly active users, is the only Facebook game to ever pass FarmVille’s 83.8 million MAU record.
Take a look at daily active user statistics for CityVille on 12/27, CityVille takes a small dive for daily active users, doesn’t it? Before jumping to conclusions though, it is imperative to take a look at where other social games stand on the same date.
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