This, of course, may be a dress rehearsal for when a Chinese version of CityVille in launched in the Middle Kingdom. But, it’s a huge market and after a few days, the game has grown to 300,000 players. There is tons of competition for social farming games in China. Just like when Zynga launched FarmVille on the iPhone, it’s not a given that FarmVille will take China by storm. Speaking of Farmville, Inside Social Games also reported that a Chinese-version of FarmVille has been launched. Which means, most of CityVille’s growth can be attributed to natural growth and in the words of The Carpenters, “we’ve only just begun.” Now that CityVille has surpassed FarmVille, the question is how high will it go? My guess is that 5% and 10% tops of the game’s growth could be attributed to Zynga’s current players switching to CityVille. With more than 97 million players, Zyngas CityVille Facebook game is even more of a phenomenon than its predecessor FarmVille - and without a lost cow in sight. Based on my initial analysis, there is cannibalization going on, but not significant enough to account for CityVille’s huge growth. Someone with more time and an aptitude with numbers than I should research this. How much of CityVille’s can be attributed to cannibalizing the traffic of its other games, such as FarmVille and FrontierVille? CityVille’s feat is based on FarmVille’s current 50,000,000 MAU statistic, not its height of 80,000,000 MAUs of last year. And finally, Zynga is cross-promoting CityVille like crazy within its other games, including the aforementioned FarmVille. News Social giant Zynga bringing freemium CityVille Hometown to the iPhone and iPad. CityVille is a good game that has been worked on for over a year before launching (most Facebook games are launched after a few months when they should be incubated for many months more). News Zyngas freemium iOS build-em-up CityVille Hometown arrives in the App Store. Ever thought of creating the perfect city Now you can, in CityVille Join the millions of people that play CityVille. For all the less game spam that is on Facebook, Zynga has made up for it by sending notifications to anyone who gives their email address (which is almost impossible not to opt-in for in a Zynga game). Though Facebook has removed game notifications from the main feed, it is starting to make the game notification feed more prominent on its web site which is making a difference. Here’s the summary again: CityVille was launched in 6 languages so it has spread globally. So, how did this happen? We already posted our analysis of why CityVille is one of the fastest growing game in the history of video games. In daily average users (DAUs), which is not as impressively big a number but is more relevant to the business, CityVille has hit 16,778,004 DAUs, compared to FarmVille’s 13,357,004 ( Appdata). In just 20 days, CityVille has reached 60,000 monthly average users (MAUs), surpassing FarmVille’s current 56,000 MAUs. They were wrong.Īs reported this morning by Inside Social Games, CityVille has surpassed FarmVille as the number one game on Facebook. That's more than double the number of users than the second-most popular Facebook app company, Takeoff Monkey, which had about 60 million users last month, AppData reported.They said it could never be done.
Zynga has built more than 50 apps on Facebook, as well as for Yahoo, the iPhone and the former-most-popular social networking website, MySpace.Īccording to AppData, Zynga has a substantial lead as the most popular Facebook app company with about 271 million people having used its products over the last 30 days. Just as in FarmVille, players can visit the communities their friends create in the game and even operate businesses in their friends' cities. In CityVille, which was released just over a month ago, players create digital cities that they manage as mayor, deciding how in-game funds are spent to nurture local businesses, build infrastructure and attract residents. About 69 million have played CityVille over the last 30 days, according to a Monday report from AppData, a website that tracks the use of Facebook applications.įarmVille, formerly the most used app on Facebook, has been played by about 57 million people over the last month, said AppData, which collects information on more than 75,000 apps directly from Facebook.īoth CityVille and FarmVille are made by Zynga, a San Francisco-based company that also makes the fourth- and fifth-most popular Facebook apps, FrontierVille and Texas HoldEm Poker.
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