目前facebook社交游戏开发者整体月活跃用户数排行榜发生了微妙的变化，CrowdStar以5400万的月活跃用户成功挤掉EA playfish位居第二，后者的月活跃用户仅为5000万。

据games网站的报道，CrowdStar在长期潜伏之后，在月活跃用户这一指标上一举击败了EA旗下的playfish和迪士尼旗下的playdom。众所周知，zynga一直是facebook社交游戏的标杆，以2亿2200万的月活跃用户遥遥领先于其他的开发者，仅farmville一项就有高达6200万的月活跃用户。因此CrowdStar、playfish和playdom的争夺战，最终也只是决定谁才是社交游戏月活跃用户排行榜的第二位。

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据appdata的数据显示，CrowdStar目前的月活跃用户总数为54637711，比上一周净增了453万月活跃用户。旗下的Quiz Planet有1392万的月活跃用户，另外Happy Aquarium也有高达1268万的月活跃用户，而第三款  Happy Pets也将近1000万的月活跃用户。

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目前CrowdStar在facebook上总共有19款应用，超过100万月活跃用户的游戏有8款。（本文由游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译）

CrowdStar, creator of Happy Pets, is now the Number 2 social games company on Facebook with 54.6 million monthly users, according to Inside Social Games, beating out big timers Playdom and Playfish. We all know that Zynga has and probably will be the biggest social games company for a long time, which is why the focus on leading statistics has been on the coveted Number 2 spot.

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So, how does a game company with no big time entertainment corporation behind it sneak in just beneath the sleeping giant’s nose? Persistence, consistency and freedom. It’s been over a month since Playfish has put out Madden NFL Superstars and Playdom had a drought for months before it released ESPNU College Town on September 27.

CrowdStar, on the other hand, has released two games in the past two weeks, It Girl and Pop Boom, which already have 2.5 million and 1.6 million monthly players respectively. Without the constraints of a corporate stepmother like Playdom’s Disney or Playfish’s Electronic Arts, CrowdStar can probably get more games developed, polished and out on the market in a fraction of the time it takes a developer like Playdom to even get clearance for one game from the higher ups.

While some might consider this a stroke of luck, developers still have to make good games to get noticed. Playfish is close behind CrowdStar with over 50 million monthly users, and a killer app could knock out CrowdStar more quickly than the company found itself in the spot. And that’s the beauty of the social games business: everyone is on their toes. （source：games）