Facebook Games Shed Millions of Users

June 25, 2010

It would be foolhardy to say that the party is over for social networking games on Facebook, but it is apparent that the party is at least winding down. Droves of players have grown tired of some games and have disengaged from them in favor of other things apparently; Gamasutra, who does a regular accounting of Facebook game rankings, has published its latest finding on the state of play in social gaming and it does not look good.

According to the report, based on two weeks' worth of data from AppData, some of the biggest social networking games on Facebook are seeing steep declines including Farmville, Treasure Isle and Cafe World. So how bad is it for those top games made by Zynga? Pretty bad. Farmville, the most popular game on Facebook, dipped from 66.6 million to 63.9 million; Treasure Isle lost 2.5 million, and Cafe World lost 1.5 million users.

The only bright spot was the #2 game, Zynga Texas HoldEm Poker, which managed to attract nearly one-hundred thousand new users for a total of 28.6 million. Maybe the warm weather has something to do with it?

Read the full report on Gamasutra to see what games are taking the biggest hits.

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Re: Facebook Games Shed Millions of Users

Submitted by sharpshooterbabe on Sat, 07/03/2010 - 11:08.

It was bound to happen any time soon.

"It's better to be hated for who you are, then be loved for who you are not." - Montgomery Gentry

Re: Facebook Games Shed Millions of Users

Submitted by Flamespeak on Sun, 06/27/2010 - 17:13.

People attracted to simple objects and games have short attention spans and tend to leave a shiny new toy after playing with it for a while. Just the way things work.

Re: Facebook Games Shed Millions of Users

Submitted by Vany on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 12:49.

So there are still 63.9 million people playing Farmville.

That's more than the entire population of the United Kingdom O_o

Re: Facebook Games Shed Millions of Users

Submitted by SimonBob on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 05:01.

And thus, the healing begins.

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Re: Facebook Games Shed Millions of Users

Submitted by MonkeyPeaches on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 16:26.

You m-m-m-mmm-m-make me happy.

Re: Facebook Games Shed Millions of Users

Submitted by Kajex on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 21:00.

P-P-PLEASE DU-DON' HU-URT M-M-MEEEEE

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DorthLous: Passed 1.5M$. And I'd also say that Brutal Legend is far from being a bad game. I just think it was a few levels under what people expected from the people working on the project.02/11/2012 - 8:25am

Technogeek: Brutal Legend wasn't bad so much as "marketing had no idea how the game actually played", causing it to suffer accordingly.02/10/2012 - 10:38pm

RedMage: It looks the CIA's website has been DDOS'ed. Anon?02/10/2012 - 7:52pm

RedMage: Brutal Legend.02/10/2012 - 7:52pm

ddrfr33k: Has anything Tim Schafer ever made been of crap caliber? I'm struggling to think of one...02/10/2012 - 7:37pm

Guamish: I think it is in good hands. Tim did a game for the GDC award show and that was fun for how short it was.02/10/2012 - 12:22pm

Andrew Eisen: It'll be tragic if the game ultimately sucks.02/10/2012 - 12:17pm

james_fudge: $1.3 million02/10/2012 - 11:32am

Uncharted NES: Germany Says It Won't Sign ACTA [Update: ... Yet]- http://tinyurl.com/7r2twrg02/10/2012 - 11:21am

Andrew Eisen: Damn. Double Fine's Kickstarter fund has already passed a million dollars.02/09/2012 - 8:16pm

Andrew Eisen: Audrey didn't quote the sassy parts. Here's IGN's article: http://wii.ign.com/articles/121/1218359p1.html And here's my original post: http://tinyurl.com/7y68a3902/09/2012 - 7:50pm

james_fudge: I hope you some said something sassy! Where's the link?02/09/2012 - 7:46pm

Andrew Eisen: Hey, neat. IGN quoted a blog I had writen only two hours earlier. I certainly timed that one pretty well.02/09/2012 - 7:38pm

Andrew Eisen: Toki Tori has been added to the Humble Bundle for Android.02/09/2012 - 5:11pm

james_fudge: Thanks for the heads-up DorthLous02/09/2012 - 4:33pm

DorthLous: Will do, my apologies.02/09/2012 - 4:14pm

Andrew Eisen: I appreciate the heads up but please keep typo alerts to the specific article's comments or PMs.02/09/2012 - 3:33pm

DorthLous: The title says 30, but in the article, the developer says it's like a 20% net tax http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/09/developers-call-facebook-currency-transaction-fee-thirty-percent-tax02/09/2012 - 2:43pm

Uncharted NES: If they actually release Final Fantasy XI for PlayStation Vita, then I will consider buying one.02/09/2012 - 12:13pm

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