Zynga new game CityVille users will be broken billion online less than February

Intermediary transaction SEO diagnosis Taobao guest Cloud host technology Hall

"TechWeb Report" January 13 news, according to foreign media reports, social game developers Zynga will become the first Facebook platform for a single application of the number of users of the broken billion, AppData released the latest figures show that the United States local time January 12 morning, The number of CityVille users reached 99513760, just one step away from 100 million.

Allfacebook says the number of new users in the social gaming application is more than 715,000 a day. If the number of users in the app goes through 100 million, that means more than one-fifth of Facebook users are playing the game. This is definitely an impressive milestone, since the game was launched last December 2 and only one months have elapsed since. Social games have become so popular that traditional gaming companies cannot ignore this new form of gaming.

Zynga's other games are less successful than CityVille. Farmville currently has 57.7 million users, Texas poker has 36.3 million users, FrontierVille has 28.7 million users, Mafia wars the number of users 19 million. Overall, more than half of Facebook users are playing Zynga games.

Allfacebook said the number of Zynga users reached 286.7 million, far exceeding rival Crowdstar, the number of users of the 47.5 million. EA ranked third, the number of users reached 38.7 million.

CityVille since the launch, the number of users has grown at an alarming rate, with the number of users exceeding 70 million in less than 1 months. 24 hours after the launch on December 2, the number of players in the city's simulation game reached 290,000. FrontierVille's previous record was 24-hour players up to 116,000. The game grows incredibly fast and has a very high degree of viscosity.

The social game, the analysis says, can generate huge gains for Zynga and Facebook for a long time. The latest news says Zynga, the social gaming company, has valued more than the veteran game maker Ea.

CityVille is a city simulation game, users can participate in the "City" management, and reasonable arrangement of resources, let their own management of the "city" to become super Metropolis. The "Simulated City 2000" (SimCity 2000), released in 1999, sold only about 5 million, but it was a good PC game.

It has to be said that CityVille capture the user's ability is very astonishing. In CityVille, there is no "automation" said, every step of the construction must be user participation. As people like to feel comfortable, Facebook and Zynga have introduced such familiar, slow-paced games and become addicted quickly.

In October 2010, Zynga valued about $5.27 billion trillion, and there was no indication that the company would slow down in the short term. Zynga is also one of the world's most populous gaming companies with more than 1300 employees and has studios in a number of markets around the world. The legendary venture capitalist, John Dole, sees Zynga as the best investment ever. (Blue and blue)