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Games.com消息:Playdom将于12月结束Super Farkle运营

发布时间:2010-10-25 09:48:48 Tags:,,

最近,登录Super Farkle的玩家都会收到一份官方通知:Super Farkle将于2010年12月31日永久关闭运营,这是Playdom公司在三个月时间内关闭的第四款游戏,之前三款分别是Fanglies, Big City Life和Treetopia 1 Comment。将于12月结束运营的Super Farkle并算不上是Playdom公司发行的热门游戏,其在高峰期时月活跃用户仅100多万,之后更迅速下降到17万7000。这款游戏是热门骰子游戏Farkle的可爱翻版,其中也有可爱动物Fanglies。

Super Farkle

Super Farkle

这次停止运营是否说明Playdom公司正面临困境呢?我们并不这么认为。最近Super Farkle公司是在摒弃部分无法创造足够营收的游戏以平衡维护时间。由于开发了热门游戏Social City和City of Wonder,相信Playdom公司在近期内不会有别的发展计划。但是,此次结束运营也在一定程度上说明了目前社交游戏行业目前的艰难局面。如果游戏公司没有开发出足够有影响力的热门游戏,那么该公司开发Facebook游戏就不是一个长期可行的发展策略。我们不愿意看见独立开发商或新兴公司刚进入社交游戏行业就因为员工或资金不足而无法开发高质量游戏,毕竟现在很多大型游戏公司正在结束运营的游戏在画面和可玩性上都十分的优秀。(本文由游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译)

Anyone who logs in to Super Farkle will be greeted with a message telling them that the game will be closing down for good on December 31, 2010. This brings the total number of Playdom games to close down within three months to four, with Fanglies, Big City Life, and Treetopia 1 Comment. Super Farkle was not a huge hit for Playdom; at its peak it hit just over 1 million monthly actives but has fallen down to around 177,000 monthly players. The game was a cute rendition of the popular dice game Farkle, and used the same cute little critters as Fanglies.

Should we be concerned for Playdom? We don’t think so; it appears that they’re just culling out the games that aren’t bringing in enough revenue to justify spending maintenance time on them. With huge hits like Social City and City of Wonder (not to mention being acquired by Disney) the company isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. These game closures do say a lot for the state of social games though. If you don’t have an enormous hit, perhaps creating games on Facebook isn’t viable long term. We hate to see the on ramp for indie developers and startups who don’t have the staff and cash to put a ton of production quality into their games, because big companies are closing down games that look and play very good.(Source:Games.com)


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