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Candy Crush Saga yields 470,000 ($625K) per day, has 45 million players worldwide
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bodyboarder
Member
Really polished game.
I am yet to spend a cent.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I've never played it, but good for them. Some friends of mine enjoy it a lot.
Bananajama
Banned
Not surprised, when I was doing a bit of backpacking at start of the year as a job break around Asia.
Every subway/bus etc I went on. There was Candy Crush!
Every subway/bus etc I went on. There was Candy Crush!
i installed this game a couple mo ago.
haven't spent a penny but i've now at levels where i really feel like your progression is determined a great deal more by RNG than by your skill, so i haven't played in a couple weeks. maybe i'm just being bad though, there is probably some strategy i'm missing.
for reference i'm at level 165, and there are almost 400 levels.
haven't spent a penny but i've now at levels where i really feel like your progression is determined a great deal more by RNG than by your skill, so i haven't played in a couple weeks. maybe i'm just being bad though, there is probably some strategy i'm missing.
for reference i'm at level 165, and there are almost 400 levels.
Eh, fair enough. Can't say as I'm too much of a fan of the random element, but it's perfectly possible to play the game for huge lengths of time without paying a penny. Personally I played the first 65 levels and then knocked it on the head when I had to choose between bugging people on Facebook or paying 69p.
feint_ruled
Member
Candy Crush does some things very well.
1. Decent graphics
2. Superb feedback mechanisms for positive reinforcement
3. NO ADS
4. Even with the RNG rigging, it's still subtle enough to make you think you may have a chance, not like hitting a brick wall like with other games
So even though I feel this whole freemium genre is manipulative, I still hope others will follow the gentler Candy Crush model after seeing this success.
EA have it all wrong. Bejewelled (or Tetris) Blitz for example. Regardless of how well you play the game, you just pay for a big fuck off non-interactive booster that adds load to your score at the end. Bejewelled has a funny one where a giant robot cat head comes in and blasts away half your board. Deliciously random as that might be, it's pure bullshit in a score attack game.
1. Decent graphics
2. Superb feedback mechanisms for positive reinforcement
3. NO ADS
4. Even with the RNG rigging, it's still subtle enough to make you think you may have a chance, not like hitting a brick wall like with other games
So even though I feel this whole freemium genre is manipulative, I still hope others will follow the gentler Candy Crush model after seeing this success.
EA have it all wrong. Bejewelled (or Tetris) Blitz for example. Regardless of how well you play the game, you just pay for a big fuck off non-interactive booster that adds load to your score at the end. Bejewelled has a funny one where a giant robot cat head comes in and blasts away half your board. Deliciously random as that might be, it's pure bullshit in a score attack game.
ComputerMKII
Banned
I wonder if that's more than what Mojang earns with Minecraft every day or what Valve earns with Steam.
No. I remember reading valve made around a billion dollars in 2010 that's around 2million+ dollars a day for that year. Don't know how much was from steam exclusively though
scytherage
Member
Console game prices really have to drop if they want to see income like that.
stargateheaven
Member
i'm on 391, not spent a penny. its entirely possible to beat the game without spending anything.
Bomber Bob
Banned
well yeah you pay $0.99 for 10 secs extra
Chû Totoro
Member
No thanks. I'd rather pay 60$ than having f2p games with this monstrosity :
Edit : on topics, good for the company running Candy Crush Saga though. They make easy money.
Illithid Dude
Member
but will it be enough to fund the dreamcast 2?
Monado Blade
Member
Has Zynga fast followed them yet?
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
I wonder how much they spend on advertising
Manmademan
Member
I've ceased to be surprised by these things. What was the last one? draw something? I'm not sure.
These games seem to blow up and go viral VERY quickly, then collapse overnight. Followups are hard to do, as the concept gets played out and casuals all go to the next big thing.
it's the gaming equivalent of winning the lottery. trying to build a business around finding the next big one is pointless.
These games seem to blow up and go viral VERY quickly, then collapse overnight. Followups are hard to do, as the concept gets played out and casuals all go to the next big thing.
it's the gaming equivalent of winning the lottery. trying to build a business around finding the next big one is pointless.
More people enjoying games than ever?
Awful stuff. Won't someone think of the gamers?!
Match 3 games rock. Easy to get into, difficult to put down. Try playing 10,000,000 sometime, it's a cracker.
It makes me sad that games like this make so much money and there are pure masterpieces out there that by comparison make next to nothing, anyway yea, this is part of the reason i think microsoft are going to take a sidestep after this upcoming gen, $99 media box with candy crush, farmville, zynga games as a focus with XB1 games too, don't think we'll see a true Xbox One 2 or whatever it would be called.
Also as a reply to a lot of people saying its good that they make so much money gaming is expanding, is it good for CoD to make so much money for a non-CoD'er? no because developers chase that CoD crowd, even final fantasy went chasing the CoD crowd and even came out and said it.
Also as a reply to a lot of people saying its good that they make so much money gaming is expanding, is it good for CoD to make so much money for a non-CoD'er? no because developers chase that CoD crowd, even final fantasy went chasing the CoD crowd and even came out and said it.
I only saw the .99 cent iap where you get 5 moves extra or so.
I bet the other iap are similar...
How is something like that enjoyable?
You know that buying IAP isn't the actual game, right?
It's perfectly possible to play and enjoy games such as these without spending a single penny.
It's an original game. As original as a match 3 gets, anyway.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
I belong to Zoo Keeper.
Hmmm those download numbers seem wrong. I was at a small conference where a creative director from King presented on Candy Crush Saga and I'm pretty sure he said the game had been downloaded over 200m times over 2 months ago.
45m is probably the active player base (indeed, that might be the daily active user base given the revenue they are generating).
Edit: just went back to his Powerpoint and checked. In May this year they had 190m+ monthly active players across their portfolio on mobile and Facebook, the majority of those being Candy Crush Saga players.
45m is probably the active player base (indeed, that might be the daily active user base given the revenue they are generating).
Edit: just went back to his Powerpoint and checked. In May this year they had 190m+ monthly active players across their portfolio on mobile and Facebook, the majority of those being Candy Crush Saga players.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
The Last Candy Crush :'(Fumito Ueda is on my Facebook friend list and he is constantly playing candy crush. TLG will never come out)
Devilgunman
Member
That number is a sole reason why devs jump ship to smartphone market. Can we really blame them? Another example, Puzzle&Dragon makes >$100 million every month in Japan. Console game Dev can only dream making that kind of money.
Android18a
Member
I was thinking that this wasn't really all that different to arcade gaming back in the day.
Back then you'd pay to start the game, and probably die/lose within a minute or two unless you were well practiced. To continue playing, you inserted coins. Often you'd find people pouring coin after coin into the slot to build up continues and lives, or time extends.
So I can't really criticise the method of pay-to-play that games like this offer. It's just when it's blatantly cynical to the point where you HAVE to pay to progress and no level of skill can get you through alone that causes the problems. If you can get through Candy Crush without spending a penny then that's fine by me. But yeah, we've been paying for extra lives and playtime since the start of gaming.
As long as I don't get ads interrupting my play session and I'm not forced to pay, I'm happy. Still haven't played CC though!
Back then you'd pay to start the game, and probably die/lose within a minute or two unless you were well practiced. To continue playing, you inserted coins. Often you'd find people pouring coin after coin into the slot to build up continues and lives, or time extends.
So I can't really criticise the method of pay-to-play that games like this offer. It's just when it's blatantly cynical to the point where you HAVE to pay to progress and no level of skill can get you through alone that causes the problems. If you can get through Candy Crush without spending a penny then that's fine by me. But yeah, we've been paying for extra lives and playtime since the start of gaming.
As long as I don't get ads interrupting my play session and I'm not forced to pay, I'm happy. Still haven't played CC though!
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
I played until level 30, then they asked me to pay to continue playing. So i stopped playing.
show me your skeleton
Member
must be hard to care about fuelling or enabling potential addictive personalities when you're making that kind of cheddar.
DeaconKnowledge
Member
I'm on level 256 in CCS, haven't spent a dime. CCS is the perfect time waster. It doesn't inundate you with ads, you play until you run out of lives so you're not sitting there for hours frustrated at one level, and if you want to you can pay your way to victory.
The RNG gameplay can get annoying, but it's a small price to pay.
The RNG gameplay can get annoying, but it's a small price to pay.
GrizzledGrump
Banned
Everywhere but on dedicated gaming consoles. This isn't a laughing matter. MS and Sony need these people in order for their consoles to be viable.