Most games have opted to add an icon on top of the game play area, specifically prompting users to send gifts, like in CrowdStar’s Happy Aquarium and Zynga’s Roller Coaster Kingdom: Now that it’s been taken out of the arsenal, developers like Zynga and CrowdStar are trying different ways of getting users to get back in the gifting habit. Only Playfish refrained from this practice in the past.
How developers are coping: This was viral-marketing 101 for nearly every Facebook game: every time you went to the application, you first had to go through a “gifting” screen before you could actually play the game. The policy: ”You must not prompt users to send invitations, requests, generate notifications, or use other Facebook communication channels immediately after a user allows access or returns to your application.” Pre-Game Gifting Interstitial Screens are Gone Here are three viral practices that have been reined in and examples of how developers are attempting to cope with the changes. While we recently attributed some of the across-the-board declines in daily active user numbers for Facebook games to seasonality, it’s becoming clearer that recent policy changes by Facebook may be contributing to these declines as well, forcing developers to completely revamp their viral activities.
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I believe MAU numbers will continue to decline a bit more before they stabilize a bit. But given this caveat, the total line suggests that so far, these developers are seeing on average a 4.6% decline in MAU and a 12.2% decline DAU which has reduced the sticky factor by 8%. The total line is not for all developers on the Facebook platform, just the seven aggregated above, so there is some bias in the aggregated numbers because Zynga makes up over half of the total MAU and DAU numbers. Because new games typically haven’t reached a steady state ( which inflates the sticky factor) and because we’re more interested in the impact on games existing prior to the platform changes, let’s look at the numbers without Zynga’s PetVille, Playfish’s Poker Rivals, CrowdStar’s Happy Island and Playdom’s Tiki Farm: Developer This initial cut makes it appear that some of the biggest developers (Zynga, CrowdStar and Playdom) have done reasonably well, but each of these developers actually launched a significant new game during the period. This assumes that the impact of the holidays (across the board dips around Christmas and New Year’s Day) was similar across all of these titles and also comes with the caveat that developer level numbers are not necessarily unique users (a user may play multiple games by that developer). To get some initial feel for the impact of these platform changes (and provide a benchmark for the industry), we looked at Daily Active Users (DAU), Monthly Active Users (MAU) and the resulting Sticky Factors (DAU/MAU) for top developers on Decem(just prior to platform changes going into effect) and January 5, 2010. All of these items are limited time and are available for just over 6 days.When Facebook implemented a flurry of platform changes that curtailed some viral marketing tactics in early December, developers scrambled to revive tactics and there was the thought that this might level the playing field a bit, taking some wind out of the sails of the most aggressive viral marketers. She is animated and spends a lot of time mixing in her little bowl and licking the spoon. This is also 28 Pet Cash.įinally, there is a new Betty Baker pet (shown above) for 48 Pet Cash. The second new room is the Wine Cellar, which would go perfect with the Valley Vineyard window. The Stocked Pantry is chock full of food for your pet, although you can't actually go inside it and eat any of the food. In addition to the two windows, there are two new kinds of cellars, which are functionally the same as windows. The second is the Valley Vineyard, which is a grape-filled view of the rolling countryside, also 29 Pet Cash. The first is a Sunflower Afternoon Scene, which costs 29 Pet Cash.
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The first set of items is two separate windows that look out to very peaceful environments. Either way, they're super cute and will make great additions for your pet's home.
Today, PetVille has released a mini-set of new decorations that they're calling 'essential', but we're not exactly sure if they are.
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