If farming isn't for you, ditch the country bumpkin reference with Cityville-where players can now build their own city, run restaurants and manage businesses. Make no mistake: The Sims Social is an epic milestone for EA, and more proof that Zynga can by no means rest on its laurels. In The News For those whom haven’t been properly tortured by Farmville and its Facebook players, app maker Zynga is now releasing its city version of the game. Take away the Sims Social, however, and the studio is left with 42.5 total users, which would put it between Microsoft and wooga in fifth place. It acquired Playfish to help it build up a solid presence on Facebook, and the launch of Sims Social is the first really tangible success to be borne out of that acquisition.Ĭonsider that Electronic Arts is now the second-highest ranking developer on Facebook, after Zynga, with 82.7 million users. CityVille - CityVille is an adventurous game playable on Facebook where the user is the mayor of a new town and needs to improve it and turn it into a city. Even less directly, “Zynga” was already the household name for social gaming on Facebook, so it would be easy to draw users to its new titles.Įlectronic Arts, though a major brand in gaming for nearly three decades, is a newbie in the social gaming space. To build momentum and excitement for CityVille, for example, all the company had to do was tell users of its other games about this new, cool, city-style version of FarmVille, and millions would be sold. That said, Zynga had a huge advantage in its past game catalog. CityVille Hometown for the iPhone is a slimmed down version of CityVille Zynga’s most popular Facebook game with more than 90 million monthly active users. In less than thirty days since it launch, the app had already accrued 61.7 million users, over 20 million more than Sims Social has done in about the same time frame. To be fair, CityVille did a little bit better in its first month. Today, the app sees 75.5 million monthly active users, but just 13.3 daily actives, barely more than the Sims Social.Īlready, the Sims Social could be on track to outpace CityVille in both categories. Still at the top of the leaderboard is Zynga with CityVille, the company’s biggest game since FarmVille and the biggest game on Facebook since it launched last winter.
In less than a month, the app has accumulated 40.2 million active users, with 10.7 million-more than a quarter-returning to play daily. The Sims Social, the latest release out of EA’s social gaming studio, has claimed second place on Facebook’s app leaderboard, according to AppData. Social gaming giant Zynga has released a version of CityVille on Google+, meaning you can now play the incredibly popular Facebook build-em-up on Googles newest social network. One game developer can’t rule the world forever. Its daily active user audience is currently 14.8 million.Zynga can't be ignoring this: Electronic Arts' latest title is rapidly approaching CityVille stats ISG predicts that with the game's recent growth rate average of over 2 million new players every day, CityVille will eventually cross more than 100 million monthly users. The game allows the players to build their own virtual cities. The developer also credits the city-building sim's fast growth to Facebook users telling their friends about the game through invites and status updates, and cross-promotion ads displayed within Zynga's other popular titles, like Mafia Wars and FrontierVille. CityVille is one of my favorite online games when I like to pass time on social media. Zynga said CityVille experienced the biggest launch out of all its titles, thanks in part to the game being the first from its catalog to be introduced in several different languages - English, German, Italian, Spanish, and French.
Though FarmVille remained the most popular app on the social network for more than a year, its audience shrunk considerably to now 58 million after Facebook implemented changes limiting "notification spam", which many games depended on for viral growth. The last Facebook app to hold that record is another Zynga release, FarmVille, which reached 83.8 million monthly users in March 2010, nine months after its debut on the site, according to a report from Inside Social Games.
In just a month since its launch, Zynga's CityVille has attracted the biggest monthly active user count out of any previous Facebook game or application, bringing in over 84.2 million monthly players. With more than 97 million players, Zynga's CityVille Facebook game is even more of a phenomenon than its predecessor FarmVille - and without a lost cow in sight.