Comments on: Café World (20M), Roller Coaster Kingdom (10M), FarmVille (60M) in Top 20 Growing Games This Week

By: hanna jane

hanna jane — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:39:01 +0000

i want to game farmville……..

By: 희정 백

희정 백 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:37:03 +0000

growing games

By: Icy Tower: A Cool Facebook Game With a Solid Start Up the App Leaderboard

Icy Tower: A Cool Facebook Game With a Solid Start Up the App Leaderboard — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:01:58 +0000

[...] a handful of problems, however, Icy Tower is off to a good start. As we’ve covered on our Top 20 up-and-coming games list, the game gainedmore than 250,000 users recently week, and currently has 527,000 MAUs. Suffice to [...]

By: Our Top 20 Growing Games List: The First Results After Facebook’s Big Redesign

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:41:50 +0000

[...] affected Café World’s stats, if not other apps. Yet we’ve noticed something larger: The top 20 list gained 26.3 million total MAU last week, but only 9.42 million this [...]

By: Aplicación de G.I. Joe en Facebook | Fumada Estratégica

Aplicación de G.I. Joe en Facebook | Fumada Estratégica — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:10:22 +0000

[...] Estoy impresionado de ver como, en tan poco tiempo, la tendencia de las aplicaciones y los juegos sociales ha crecido. Tal parece que hasta, por más sociales y potencialmente internacionales, existe regionalidad en cada uno de ellos, una importante diferencia con respecto a las consolas. Por ejemplo, en México, Farmville crece exponencialmente y recibo constantemente invitaciones o leo movimientos en walls de mis perfiles. Sin embargo, de Cafe World solo he recibido una, con todo y que es el juego más popular a nivel global, con más de 20 millones de usuarios. [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:54:55 +0000

Well, it’s pretty obvious how Zinga games “suddenly” gain users – they BUY them!

Zynga puts TONS of money into aggressive advertising, where as playfish relays much more on virality.

If you’ll look on AppData graph for Cafe world you’d see they started with 30 users (30/9), next day it was 2k, next day around 39K, next 265K – and then, “suddenly” 1.7M new users every day.

It’s not that virality makes Cafe world so popular, Zynga BUYS users with insane amount of cash, brings it to a high ranking position and THEN, when 20M users, obviously virality is a big factor.

Playfish grow MUCH slower, but not because their games are any less better (and like most of the people in the industry, I too think playfish is SO much better than Zynga as a game developer) – but because they grow much more based on virality, they don’t spend so much money on advertising, and I wouldn’t be surprised to discover, per game they are even more profitable than Zynga.