2014 in Games
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- 1. Games industry 2014 A year in review Leonard Frankel – Head of Biz Dev
- 2. January Dong Nguyen An unknown game developer from Vietnam • 50m D/L in 28 days • Average salary in Hanoi is 145$ per month
- 3. January Big Fish Games Concluded 2013 with 278m$ in revenues • Expected revenues 2014 - 312m$ • Acquired by Churchill Downs – 835m$
- 4. January Free 2 Play A big change is taking place • Jan. – Office of Fair Trading in the UK sets up principles • July – US FTC files a case against Amazon • Sept. – FTC orders Google to pay 19m$ • Nov. – Apple changes the wording for F2P apps
- 5. February Supercell’s back office hacked Supposedly showing 5.15m$ in daily revenues
- 6. February Mojang Announces a Minecraft feature film with WB • 2013 Revenues – 316m$
- 7. March King Goes public • Lost 9% on the day of IPO • Down 25% to this day • Market cap 4.85b$ • Makes 6m$ a day
- 8. March Oculus VR Once a 2.4m$ Kickstarter campaign • Acquired by Facebook for 2.5b$
- 9. May Zynga The downfall continues • Q1 Reveneus (-61m$) • Q2 Reveneus (-62.5m$) • Q3 Reveneus (-57m$) • CEO Don Mattrick’s compensation – 57m$
- 10. May Twitch Rumored to be acquired by Youtube
- 11. May Plarium Becomes the largest hard-core games developer on Facebook
- 12. June Dragonplay Acquired by Bally Technologies for 100m$ • Impressive 10x EBITDA multiplier • 2 months later – Bally was acquired for 5.1b$
- 13. July Glu Stock sky-rockets as Kim Kardashian becomes a hit • After Apple & Google’s featuring wanes off – so do the revenues and stock prices
- 14. July DotA 2 A Chinese team wins the first world championship • Takes home 5 million USD
- 15. July Twitch Rumored to be acquired by Google
- 16. July Activision Runs a beta-test for Destiny • Over 10 days 4.6m players participate • September – 500m$ worth of copies are bought by retailers towards the launch
- 17. August Twitch Amazon confirms it has acquired Twitch • 970,000,000$
- 18. September Mojang Acquired by Microsoft for a hefty 2.5b$ price tag • Notch and the other founders – all walk away
- 19. September Call of Duty Advanced Warfare is released • Brings the franchise to over 10b$ in sales
- 20. October Diwip Acquired by Imperus for 100m$ • ~2m$ per employee
- 21. thank you! Leonard Frankel – Head of Biz Dev leonard@plarium.com Some of the information was gathered from reports by Shum Singe of