One Year of Monster World

Game developers rarely share numbers about their revenues, sales or profits. You have cases of CEO’s trying to convince you of their sky high profits or CEO’s like wooga’s Jens Begemann whose company has so much momentum that he walks around with a huge smile stating that the company is not fully profitable at this stage.   The attitude of game developers did not change but recently Wooga and Goodgame Studios released data with interesting numbers on their users’ virtual goods consumption:

“Monster World has been played by more than 20 million people from 231 nations since April 2010. A dedicated team of 15 launch an improved version of the game every week, with more than 56 iterated versions since the public launch. wooga is constantly seeking to serve the best gaming experience possible, and the 1.1 million daily players, each logging in more than 8 times every day, really encourage us. Remarkable: Monster World has its all time high in terms of monthly active Users today, one year after its first launch and it doesn’t stop growing. Since its launch, 594 unique, decorative items – from tree-houses and castles to pyramids and space satellites – have been invented and implemented by the creative team. Designed from the bottom up as a social game, a major portion of the Monster World gameplay is to play with your friends: Our user have oiled each other’s robots more than 1.6 billion times, have fed their hungry helpers 930 million times and collected 1 billion bags of gold in their friend’s gardens. Users in Monster World manufacture and sell goods. For example, users have produced more than 60 million pieces of candy in their candy factories, and crafted over 3.7 million spiky lollipops.” -Wooga

“More than 70 million players worldwide use the free browser games of Hamburg’s developer Goodgame Studios every month. The browser games can be played in 22 languages via the portal www.goodgamestudios.com and in more than 200 countries fans are thrilled by Goodgame Studios’ flash games. In some countries there are millions of fans, in some maybe just one. Like on New Caledonia the island belonging to France, located in the Pacific Ocean, about 1,200 km east of Australia. With so many fans incredible numbers emerge.  Since the launch of GOODGAME FARMER in April 2010, precisely 56,545,606 animals were bought. In GOODGAME CAFÉ on the other hand, 48,822,963 tomatoes were used for 38,738,555 salads, among others. And in GOODGAME MAFIA 32,423,561 tasks have already been taken care of for the godfather. The users are also very generous: 2,721,219 pieces of clothing were given away in GOODGAME FASHION and 273,473,862 chips donated in GOODGAME POKER.” – Goodgame Studios