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疑问:zynga上周MAU狂飙4700万,咖啡世界独得1500万

发布时间:2010-08-03 00:45:48 Tags:,,

最近我们在监测facebook社交游戏MAU和DAU数据的时候,总是能看到相当不景气的行情,位居前25位的游戏经常性地处于下滑的状态。

Zynga-Logo

Zynga-Logo

可是上周整个情况出现了不一样的剧变,以zynga、rockyou和EA为代表的社交游戏出现了狂飙突进的情况,Zynga旗下的Café World独得1500万月活跃用户, Texas HoldEm Poker紧随其后获得超过1300万的月活跃用户, 即便是Mafia Wars也获得超过600万的月活跃用户, 这个疯狂的数据比起炙手可热的FrontierVille更具震撼力,FrontierVille上周也不过获得了360万的月活跃用户,增长比例仅为17%。

不管这个是属于facebook的统计漏洞,还是facebook更新了他们的统计数据,上周是facebook游戏近期以来最疯狂的一次增长。

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app

Each Monday we run a list of the fastest-growing games on Facebook by monthly active users, and this morning is no exception. However, we’re also seeing some very unusual stats today, starting with a 15 million MAU gain for Zynga’s Café World.

Going down the list, several more games appear to have added huge numbers of users, including Texas HoldEm Poker, Mafia Wars, Zoo World and Restaurant City. While Zynga is the publisher of many, the gains aren’t limited to that company; Zoo World, for instance, is by RockYou!, while Restaurant City is owned by Electronic Arts.

There are, however, two things that unite most of these games. The first is that they’re months old — meaning growth is typically lower for them than a new game like FrontierVille. Second, all of them appear to have made their huge gains over just the past three days.

dev

dev

What’s going on? It’s possible that Facebook is just experiencing a temporary bug in its stats reporting. The growth occurred over the weekend, so we haven’t yet had a chance to catch up with the company.

Zynga, also, has not yet responded to let us know whether it has really gained 47 million MAU. However, among two developers we’ve checked with, one said the growth spikes seemed consistent for their apps — and another said, no, the growth did not seem consistent.

weekly

weekly

The other possibility, besides a bug, is that Facebook has changed or updated its reporting tools. This would not be the first time. The most recent was on June 21st, when Quiz Planet! suddenly reported 15 million new monthly active users, while other apps like Twitter and Facebook for Android also showed big, unexplained gains.

Those June changes turned out to be revealing accurate numbers for apps that had been mis-reporting their stats for months. If that’s the case here, then the social gaming world will need to reconsider its thesis that Zynga, which is by far the largest and most powerful company in the space, is losing large numbers of its users.

Other companies also appeared to gain a few million MAU, but Zynga is the only one showing a monster bump in user numbers. We’ll continue trying to get an official statement this morning.

zynga

zynga

Just for reference, Zynga’s MAU chart is below; it has risen from 206 million MAU to 253 million MAU. Its highest MAU count ever was also 253 million, in mid-April of this year.


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