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facebook社交游戏9月期:新游戏串升,经典游戏回落

发布时间:2010-09-02 10:20:32 Tags:,,

本月初,因为facebook游戏应用统计出现失误,导致在appdata或者all facebook的月活跃用户数上出现了很大的波动,其中以zynga最为明显,texas holdem poker和cafe world两款游戏被错误飙升,分别超越了farmville,前者更是突破了farmville的最高纪录,而zynga的整体月活跃用户数甚至达到了3亿6000万的高度。这样的情况大概持续了半个月的时间。

经过修正,farmville还是社交游戏的第一品牌,月活跃用户还是维持在6000万上下,zynga旗下的新游戏frontierville曾经串升至第二名,短暂力压texas holdem poker,frontierville是款神奇的游戏,不仅用户数增长惊人,吸金能力同样让人惊叹。

facebook games top 25

facebook games top 25

据inside social games最新一期的排名中,zynga旗下的游戏依然雄踞榜单的前七位,分别是farmville、texas holdem poker、frontierville、mafia wars、cafe world、treasure isle以及petville,其中farmville高达61965319位月活跃用户,petville也有14389606位月活跃用户。前十名的另外三位被mindjolt的mindjolt games、playfish的 pet society以及popcap的 bejeweled blitz占据。

整体上facebook游戏中超过1000万月活跃用户的游戏达到了13款。在榜单的前25名中,月活跃用户最少的baking life也有6259821位月活跃用户。

在升降情况上,经典的游戏的确处在下滑的趋势上,texas holdem poker流失7759419位月活跃用户、cafe world更是高达11741406位月活跃用户。而新晋的游戏包括frontierville增长相当强劲,飙升6067448位月活跃用户,而playdom的market street更是首次进入榜单,排名第十五,有892385位月活跃用户。

While July’s charts  finally began showing signs that the continual drop in monthly active users (MAU) was tapering off, this past month has witnessed new falls. Of the veterans to this list, 16 experienced losses, with most well north of a million users. However, while some blame can be placed on Facebook’s constant changes and updates to the platform, the appearance of four new titles — two of which are not from the major social game developers — suggests that social game players may be looking for fresh ideas, and not always iterations on the same concept. From the vastness of Playfish’s Pirates Ahoy to the highly polished clubs of Booyah’s Nightclub City, the games that are trying to raise the bar in both design and creativity have also been the ones that are growing fastest.

It’s important to keep in mind that many of the largest games on this list also launched long ago, like Playfish’s Petville and Zynga Poker. Perhaps we’re starting to see some natural decline among the oldest titles?

As a side note, even with the applications that have lost numbers, it may not be as bad as it appears. Facebook has had a number of reporting bugs that may have skewed MAU counts for some games, giving them higher than normal numbers.

Here are the highlights for the top 25 Facebook Games for September 2010:

* Zynga’s FarmVille sees its first growth in the past few months, gaining 2.2 million monthly active users.

* Of all the other Zynga titles, the only other one to see positive numbers is FrontierVille, which moves up to #3 with a gain of over 6 million MAU. It is also worth noting that of all the Zynga apps, FrontierVille is also one of the more unique ones.

* MindJolt continues to hold at its #8 position, but loses 2,250,282 MAU this month. All the same, MindJolt has fluctuated wildly over its lifespan, yet has almost always remained in the Top 25.

* Playfish sees minor losses for its long running Pet Society, appearing at #9 with just over 13.5 million MAU.

* Another game that is doing well this week comes from casual king, PopCap with Bejeweled Blitz. Having slowly worked its way up the charts since its launch last year, it now reaches #10 with over 12.5 million MAU.

* CrowdStar and RockYou make their appearances at #11 and #12 respectively. The former’s Happy Aquarium walks away with a moderate loss of 380,705 MAU, while Zoo World drops a sizable 1.8 million.

* New to the list this month is Playdom’s business-oriented title Market Street. The app that let’s users create hardware stores, boutiques, or electronics stores comes in at #15 with almost 9 million MAU.

* CrowdStar does get some positive numbers in the form of Happy Pets at #17, having gained just over 400,000 MAU.

* Booyah proves that quality can mean the world as the non-advertised Nightclub City continues to grow, moving up from #25 to #18 with a 2.5 million MAU growth.

* Also new to the list is the sea-faring pirate title from Playfish: Pirates Ahoy. The app reaches #22 with 7.4 million MAU.

* Rounding out the list at #24 and #25 are the simply named Games and Baking Life from GSN and ZipZapPlay respectively. The former earns approximately 6.4 million MAU, while the latter earns 6.3 million.(source:inside social games)


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