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DarkFury on 17 January 2014
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ioi said:
Shinobi-san said:

This only applies to retail games though and you assumed I was speaking about retail games when i wasnt...Some games like LoL, Dota 2, Hearthstone etc. are relatively free from platform costs and have the potential to be bigger than Candy Crush in the long term. Personally i dont see retail games as the main competition here to mobile games but rather popular PC games.

Well you made no allusion that you weren't talking about retail games and since that had been the topic of the thread up to that point then it is fair assumption to make!

Games like Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, League of Legends and DOTA 2 I'd actually group into the same freemium model. My point was to those who weren't that aware that games like this (including LOL and DOTA 2) are actually making a lot more money over sustained periods of time than the retail market that we have been used to for so long.

I have been trying for a long time to nail down some hard figures for League of Legends. I see annual revenue estimates of $100m in some places (which would put it way below the big iOS / Android titles) but I suspect it is quite a bit higher than that. Until I have some hard data I wouldn't like to make a call but certainly I'd put LOL, Candy Crush, Clash of Clans and P&D in the top 10 grossing games of 2013 somewhere along with the more expected suspects like GTA 5, COD Ghosts etc.

This finanacial analyst firm has numbers on the F2P PC games:

http://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/us-digital-games-market/