In recent years, wind and water network of community-casual games, has become a lot of game publishers generally optimistic about the investment target, following the EA, Microsoft is also adding to the camp in the past. Bloomberg reported that, according to authoritative financial media, X360 plant is prepared to invest 200 million U.S. dollars acquisition of CrowdStar for the Facebook game development.
So, who is CrowdStar? And why is it the value of 200 million U.S. dollars? In fact, this small studio is a Facebook game "Happy Aquarium," the author, relying on the endless virtual props have been selling a lot of money. While in our view, this game is basically worthless, but actually kind of community Facebook casual games are unstoppable momentum to rapid growth of market share in 2012 is expected to reach 2 billion U.S. dollars.
200 million U.S. dollars is really not a small sum, but compared to before the EA in the Playfish (another Facebook game developer), who hit only a fraction of the money has still. Of course, the 200 million is not the final purchase price, as Bloomberg's news that there are still other buyers bullish CrowdStar, so the end result is still possible to create a new record.
