Games industry 2014

A year in review

Leonard Frankel – Head of Biz Dev

January

Dong NguyenAn unknown game developer from Vietnam

• 50m D/L in 28 days

• Average salary in Hanoi

is 145$ per month

January

Big Fish GamesConcluded 2013 with 278m$ in revenues

• Expected revenues 2014 - 312m$

• Acquired by Churchill Downs – 835m$

January

Free 2 PlayA 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

February

Supercell’s back office hackedSupposedly showing 5.15m$ in daily revenues

February

MojangAnnounces a Minecraft feature film with WB

• 2013 Revenues – 316m$

March

KingGoes public

• Lost 9% on the day of IPO

• Down 25% to this day

• Market cap 4.85b$

• Makes 6m$ a day

March

Oculus VROnce a 2.4m$ Kickstarter campaign

• Acquired by Facebook for 2.5b$

May

ZyngaThe downfall continues

• Q1 Reveneus (-61m$)

• Q2 Reveneus (-62.5m$)

• Q3 Reveneus (-57m$)

• CEO Don Mattrick’s compensation – 57m$

May

TwitchRumored to be acquired by Youtube

May

PlariumBecomes the largest hard-core games developer

on Facebook

June

DragonplayAcquired by Bally Technologies for 100m$

• Impressive 10x EBITDA multiplier

• 2 months later – Bally was acquired for 5.1b$

July

GluStock sky-rockets as Kim Kardashian

becomes a hit

• After Apple & Google’s featuring wanes off – so do the

revenues and stock prices

July

DotA 2A Chinese team wins the first world championship

• Takes home 5 million USD

July

TwitchRumored to be acquired by Google

July

ActivisionRuns a beta-test for Destiny

• Over 10 days 4.6m players participate

• September – 500m$ worth of copies are bought by

retailers towards the launch

August

TwitchAmazon confirms it has acquired Twitch

• 970,000,000$

September

MojangAcquired by Microsoft for a hefty 2.5b$ price tag

• Notch and the other founders – all walk away

September

Call of DutyAdvanced Warfare is released

• Brings the franchise to over 10b$ in sales

October

DiwipAcquired by Imperus for 100m$

• ~2m$ per employee

thank you!

Leonard Frankel – Head of Biz Devleonard@plarium.com

Some of the information was gathered

from reports by Shum Singe of