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InsideSocialGames:社交游戏感恩节特别活动综述

发布时间:2010-11-26 11:25:33 Tags:,,,,

从今年万圣节的盛况便可以看出,节假日是各种社交游戏活动蜂拥而上的最佳时机。早在2009年,大小社交游戏开发商便在节假日发布了各种主题活动,以吸引更多的玩家沉浸游戏体验之中大肆挥霍。尽管较之万圣节,发布感恩节活动的社交游戏有所减少,但无疑感恩节仍是圣诞节前重要的一大过度节日。

在众多社交游戏中,拥有近5400万月活跃用户的FarmVille推出了多款节日活动。各种感恩节虚拟商品琳琅满目,其中最特别的是一款“感恩节盛宴”。

FarmVille-Thanksgiving

FarmVille-Thanksgiving

这款“感恩节盛宴”最初只是一张单调空白的餐桌,但当玩家们互相赠送各种感恩节美食后,桌子上就会出现各种收到的感恩节食品。当收获一定数量的美食后,玩家们可以换取限量版感恩节道具。此前在万圣节活动中,Zynga也使用了同样的活动花招。虽然在这次活动中玩家不再觉得新颖,但也没有更好的方式显示各种获得的美食礼物。

在Zynga旗下所有游戏中,Treasure Isle此次的感恩节活动最为突出,其将“不给糖果就捣蛋”的理念通过Facebook墙帖融入了RSVP和感恩节盛宴之中。之后,玩家可以使用RSVP购买各种装饰道具,宝石或节日食物。获得越多的RSVP,玩家的感恩节“餐桌”就会变得越丰盛。

Turkey-Tots

Turkey-Tots

除了传统的感恩节物品外,Zynga公司还发布了一只有点发福的卡通火鸡先生J.D. Turkelton。游戏中的任务就是要帮助J.D. Turkelton减肥成瘦骨如柴以逃脱被吃的命运。

另一家社交游戏公司Playdom在其游戏Social City中发布了一款旋转抽奖活动,也就是在一面标着虚拟货币和虚拟道具的转盘前赌赌运气。感恩节期间,玩家每天可赠送一次节日道具,而如果节日整周每天都收获一份感恩节礼物的玩家就可以收获一份限量版感恩节盛宴道具。

Thanksgiving-Social-City

Thanksgiving-Social-City

去年,还有多家游戏开发商举办了黑色星期五活动。其中,Playdom公司的社交游戏游戏City of Wonder今年也举办了相同的活动。尽管目前还未公布活动信息,但从广告中得知:玩家在使用Facebook Credits的同时可以购买Gold奖励。而去年的限定版道具“Old favorites”将会再次问世。

此外,社交游戏公司CrowdStar也随大流发布了多款节日主题虚拟商品。然而该公司却用一种特别的方式超越了Playdom的黑色星期五活动销量:CrowdStar在社交游戏It Girl中发布了一家模仿现实生活的Old Navy商店,店中的各种商品正式目前现实中正在贩卖的商品,如感恩节煎饼等。不难想象这种类型的合作可能将十分盛行。

同样,RockYou公司的社交游戏Zoo World也发布了感恩节特别活动。尽管也发布了各种虚拟道具,其中最有趣的莫过于经典的感恩节游行。在朋友的帮助下,玩家可以为自己的Zoo World游行吹一个大大的感恩节气球。

Thanksgiving-Parade

Thanksgiving-Parade

更有趣的是每完成一个气球,玩家获得的相应限量版动物就可以使用虚拟货币升级称“Ultra Rare”(珍稀动物)。此外,用于吹气球的道具之一的玉米可以使用Facebook Credits购买,或者是在喂感恩节特别饲料给动物的同时随机获得。

在各款社交游戏中,感恩节活动在万圣节和即将来临的圣诞节的笼罩下不温不火地进行着。即便如此,各游戏开发商还是不遗余力的发布了多款节日活动。但不论如何这些都只是圣诞节来临前夕的开胃菜,相信12月我们将迎来更多更丰富的节日活动。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

If Halloweeen showed us anything, it was that the holidays are taking the social gaming world by storm. Far more than in 2009, developers both large and small are going all-out to theme their games, with the intent of increasing engagement and spending through the special day. While the number of games making use of Thanksgiving is smaller than Halloween, the holiday is still a significant stop-over on the way to Christmas.

FarmVille ThanksgivingAs the Facebook game reaching the most monthly users (about 54 million), Zynga’s FarmVille also has more resources to pour into holidays than most. Thanksgiving virtual goods are everywhere in FarmVille, but one of particular interest is the “Thanksgiving Feast.”

The Feast starts as a basic, boring table. But at the table, users can gift each other various Thanksgiving day dishes. Should a player acquire enough dishes, they’ll be able to trade them in for limited edition Thanksgiving items. Zynga used the same mechanic for Halloween, although it feels less fleshed out here, as there’s no clear way to view what is purchasable before the dishes are earned.

Turkey TotsWhile FrontierVille has its own Thanksgiving specials, Treasure Isle had the best Thanksgiving implementation among Zynga’s games, with an adapted trick-or-treating concept involving RSVPs to a Thanksgiving feast through Facebook wall posts. The player can then use the RSVPs to purchase decorative items, gems, and food for the holiday. The more RSVPs they receive, the fancier their in-game Thanksgiving “Banquet Table” looks (the item is given to the player for free upon logging in).

In addition to traditional Thanksgiving stuff, Zynga provides a bit of comic relief in an overweight turkey called J.D. Turkelton. He’s basically the center of a fun, social, quest where friends help work out the poor guy so he’s skinny enough not to be eaten.

Playdom Thanksgiving Social City took a different spin on the raffle concept it has used before for Social City. For those that had missed it, the raffle is a “spin” of a wheel for a small sum of virtual currency and win a virtual item. For Thanksgiving, players can gift these items once a day. Should they accept one Thanksgiving gift item a day, every day of the holiday week, they will receive a limited edition Thanksgiving Feast item for their city.

A handful of developers offered Black Friday deals last year, and Playdom’s top app, City of Wonder, is one of the few we’ve seen doing the same this year. While the specifics are not yet revealed, the advertisement notes that players can purchase bonus Gold (the game’s virtual currency) when using Facebook Credits. “Old favorites,” likely referring to past limited edition items, will also be available.

Coming to CrowdStar, it has followed the general trend by stocking up on themed virtual goods. But the company did outdo Playdom’s Black Friday sale in one significant way: it has recreated an entire real-world Old Navy store in It Girl, with all the same items the chain is currently carrying and, presumably, selling like hotcakes on Black Friday. It’s not difficult to imagine this sort of partnership extending next year to actual merchandising and sales of real-world goods in virtual games.

RockYou is hosting some special Thanksgiving additions as well with Zoo World. While the game has a tremendous number of virtual items available (a full listing can be found on the official Zoo World blog), the most interesting were those oriented around the classic Thanksgiving Day Parade. Using the help of friends, players can “blow up” a special Thanksgiving balloon for their own Zoo World parade.

Thanksgiving ParadeWhat makes this more interesting, is that for each completed balloon, users get a corresponding  limited-edition animal to go with it that can be upgraded to “Ultra Rare” creatures by spending virtual currency. Additionally, one of the components to “creating” these balloons/animals is Maize, which can either be purchased with virtual currency or earned, by chance, by feeding special Thanksgiving treats to one’s animals.

Thanksgiving is a holiday that gets vastly overshadowed in games by the hype of Halloween and the coming of Christmas. Even so, the developer response has been decidedly greater than it was a year prior. Furthermore, it will also be interesting to see who else does something for the top US shopping day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday. But all of this is just an appetizer for Christmas, when we’ll be pointing out many more implementations, in a much wider range of games. (Source:Inside Social Games)


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