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Raptr公布Zynga社交玩家新数据

发布时间:2011-09-28 17:13:27 Tags:,,

作者:Dean Takahashi

如今大家的目光都集中在Zynga身上,因为该公司准备通过首次公开募股上市。该社交游戏公司在向证券交易委员会提交的文件中公开公司相关数据。但Raptr(游戏邦注:这是服务玩家的社交网络)通过自身的1000万用户挖掘有关Zynga的信息,并于日前公布报告相关信息。

数据显示Zynga 2.65亿 MAU体验游戏的活跃程度丝毫不亚于热门硬核游戏玩家。下列饼图说明动视《使命的召唤》备受玩家青睐,其体验时间份额高达43%,接着是《魔兽世界》(17%),再来是微软的《光晕》(14%)。但Zynga的Ville游戏(游戏邦注:《FarmVille》、《PetVille》、《YoVille》、《FrontierVille》和《CityVille》)也有高达13%的份额,紧随其后的是其他硬核游戏的12%。这说明玩家在Zynga Ville游戏投入的时间比《刺客信条》、《战争机器》、《质量效应》和《侠盗猎车手》多得多。

raptr 01 from venturebeat.com

raptr 01 from venturebeat.com

在社交游戏中,Zynga拥有超过60%的市场份额。虽然诸如《使命的召唤》和《魔兽世界》之类硬核作品体验持续时间更长,但Zynga Ville游戏的体验频率比其高出4倍。Zynga还通过持续呈现营销信息提高用户粘性、交叉推广其他作品和开展虚拟交易充分利用这些频繁游戏体验。

由于2008年《YoVille》的问世,Zynga Ville游戏用户每次的平均体验时长翻了一倍。每次平均体验时长通常在5分钟左右。

在令用户从某款Ville游戏转移至另一Ville游戏方面,Zynga取得突出成绩。虽然Zynga每款游戏的用户规模至少是硬核游戏的5倍,但其每款游戏的用户规模均相当均衡(如下图所示)。

raptr 02 from venturebeat.com

craptr 02 from venturebeat.com

在2008年以来的所有在线用户中,Zynga热门游戏获得的体验时间比其余10款游戏之和高出3倍(游戏邦注:这个数据是EA推出《Sims Social》前的水平)。2008年来Zynga游戏体验时间在10大热门社交游戏中占75%,而EA PopCap 10%,Digital Chocolate的《大富豪世界》5%,Kabam的《亚瑟王国》5%,Wooga的《怪兽世界》3%,Kixeye的《Backyard Monsters》2%。

Raptr还发现Zynga的用户群体非常忠诚。在前4款作品(《FrontierVille》、《Treasure Isle》、《CityVille》和《Empires & Allies》)中,Zynga从既有作品中转移了90%用户。

关于硬核玩家和Zynga粉丝的交集,约有12-20%的Zynga《CityVille》玩家也玩《星际争霸2》、《指环王OL》和《使命召唤:黑色行动》之类的硬核游戏。 体验Zynga游戏的Xbox 360玩家比例2011年增加至30%,比前一年提高50%。

就像Zynga在SEC文件中所说的那样,前2%的忠实用户是其成功的关键,这些用户属于“鲸鱼用户”,是公司最大的消费者。他们比一般用户的体验时间多3倍。前2%用户每天体验Zynga游戏120分钟,而一般用户只有40分钟。这说明Zynga的游戏业务是靠500万付费玩家支撑起来。

报告数据来自Raptr用户信息,其数据发布于2011年8月。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,如需转载请联系:游戏邦

Raptr unveils new data about Zynga’s social gamers

By Dean Takahashi

All eyes are on Zynga now as the social gaming company prepares to go public in an initial public offering. The social game maker has revealed some data about itself in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But Raptr, the social network for gamers, has been mining its own data on 10 million users for information about Zynga, and it is releasing it in a report today.

The data reveals that Zynga’s user base of more than 265 million monthly active users are playing games almost as much as the top hardcore gaming franchises. The pie chart at left shows that Activision’s Call of Duty is the top franchise in share of time spent at 43 percent, followed by World of Warcraft at 17 percent and Microsoft’s Halo at 14 percent. But Zynga’s Ville games (FarmVille, PetVille, YoVille, FrontierVille and CityVille) games have 13 percent of time spent on games, followed by core gaming franchises at 12 percent. That means players are spending more time with Zynga’s Ville titles than they are with Assassin’s Creed, Gears of War, Mass Effect, and Grand Theft Auto.

In social games, Zynga has more than 60 percent of the overall market. While hardcore franchises such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are played for longer durations, Zynga’s Ville games are played four times more frequently. Zynga also takes advantage of those frequent sessions by constantly serving up marketing messages to stir up engagement, cross-promote  its other games, and handle transactions.

Since the launch of YoVille in 2008, Zynga’s Ville games have almost doubled in average session time length. Average session length is usually around 5 minutes.

In getting users to move from one Ville game to another, Zynga is doing great. Even though Zynga’s user size per game is at least five times bigger than hardcore games, it is still able to grab an equal proportion of users from game to game (see graph at right).

In total online players since 2008, Zynga’s top titles racked up three times more hours than the rest of the top 10 combined. (This was measured before the resurgence of Electronic Arts with its Sims Social title). Zynga’s share of play time was 75 percent for the top 10 social games since 2008, compared to 10 percent for EA PopCap, 5 percent for Digital Chocolate’s Millionaire City, 5 percent for Kabam’s Kingdoms of Camelot, 3 percent for Wooga’s Monster World, and 2 percent for Kixeye’s Backyard Monsters.

Raptr also found that Zynga’s user base is loyal. For its last four major games — FrontierVille, Treasure Isle, CityVille, and Empires & Allies), Zynga pulled 9o percent of the players from existing users.

As for crossover between hardcore gamers and Zynga fans, about 12 to 20 percent of Zynga’s CityVille players have also played hardcore games such as StarCraft 2, Lord of the Rings Online, and Call of Duty Black Ops. The percentage of Xbox 360 players who have played a Zynga game increased to 30 percent in 2011, up 50 percent from a year before.

As Zynga said in its SEC filing, the top 2 percent of loyal players are crucial to its success, as those players are “whales,” or the company’s biggest spenders. They play three times more than the average player. The top 2 percent play Zynga games for 120 minutes per day, compared to 40 minutes for an average player. That means that 5 million paying players are supporting Zynga’s gaming business.

The report was based on data collected from Raptr’s player base and it looked at data from Raptr’s launch until August 2011.(Source:venturebeat


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