(for the three people who haven’t heard yet, EA just bought PlayFish, for circa $400 million) Three things I have to say on this: Mainstream games industry people question it’s value Yes, of course it was worth it What Would Zynga Do? Mainstream games industry people question it’s value I’ve […]
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Now that I no longer work for a large MMO publisher, I no longer have access to all the juicy numerical goodness, research, and stats that they had on their games and everyone else’s. A chance email recently suggesting I take a look at Xfire’s gamestats led to some quick […]
Someone asked me: How many people play online games globally in 2008? A simple answer …and with a quick mental calculation I estimated 1 billion *unique registered accounts*. (I’ve been tracking and calculating this stuff a lot recently). That wasn’t good enough – they wanted something to put in a […]
NB: Jussi and I have pooled our data, but will be looking at different aspects of it going forwards. Should be interesting… Background Roughly a month ago Jussi Laakkonen published a list of $350 million invested in year 2008 into virtual worlds, casual MMOs, and casual & social games. Based […]
Jussi posted an excellent writeup of how there’s been over $350 million invested in social games etc worldwide, and commented that he the European side wasn’t really included in his sources. But I’ve been tracking the European side for a while, and since I’m preparing a new MMO / Education […]