Posts Tagged ‘FarmVille’

Zynga, the leading game developer in the social gaming market, has continuously proven itself with successful gaming titles: FarmVille, Texas Hold’em and CityVille. If we took the time to break each game down, we could analyze why Zynga did so well with its titles, but social gaming isn’t the only thing Zynga does well: effective social media marketing strategy is another one of Zynga’s success stories.

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Social media games have everything to do with social networking platforms.  That’s why games on Google+ was a sure thing; it was only a matter of time. Have you had a chance to play any, yet? The official blog for the company says: “Today we’re adding games to Google+. With the Google+ project, we want to [...]

I received some important news from CNBC’s Kate Kelly about the potential IPO of the social gaming company behind Farmville called Zynga. Kelly reported details of a mass evaluation that may be associated with an offering. Zynga is planning to file its IPO registration documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission as early as tomorrow. The gamemaker is based in San Francisco and aims to secure between $1.5 billion and $2 billion dollars.

Almost one-hundred staff has been hired to work at Zynga’s Dublin office. Rumors say there are plans for further expansion in the near future. The new office in Dublin plans to focus on online community management, content management, business functions and customer care.

Lady Gaga never ceases to amaze her public, which she calls her “little monsters.” In seven days, she will become a new neighbor to Zynga’s Farmville, a Facebook game. Gagaville will be added as the new playable world, allowing players to listen to new songs from Gaga’s album “Born This Way,” which hits the streets May 23, 2011.

FarmVille is starting to suffer from waning user interest, a faith that dealt killer blows to the likes of MySpace and Friendster in the past. In case of FarmVille, the decline in daily active users is also a result of CityVille stealing gamers away from the farms and moving them to the cities.

World Food Program has offered its gratitude to FarmVille farmers for donating generously to help rebuild a school in Haiti. In addition to this, the pupils at the school are being provided with free lunch from FarmVille farmer donations.

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

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.

CityVille, after dethroning FarmVille from its high horse, leads the social gaming industry with 75 million monthly active users. Who else is on the top games list?