Zynga is best known for Farmville , a farming game where the player has to plow land, grow crops and harvest. Between and , this was the most played game on Facebook.
Take-Two releases games that the user can download onto the computer for a fee. The most famous of these is Grand Theft Auto , in which the player races through large cities in stolen cars and has to carry out criminal assignments. With the acquisition of Zynga, Take-Two is taking a big step in a new segment of the games industry: free games that are mainly played on the mobile phone.
Platforms for free, online games mainly make money from advertising revenue and from users who buy perks to be the best in a league. Farmville Players can dutifully sow and harvest plants every day, give gifts to friends in the hopes of getting them back, and eventually expand their own farm.
Another route: pulling a credit card to buy extra land, tractors and cows with real money. According to the Guinness Book of World Records holds Farmville the record for the sale of the most expensive virtual farm animal, a so-called Celestial Pegacorn.
This unicorn with wings cost five million Farmville coins in , about 3, euros. In the meantime, Farmville can only be downloaded and played via app stores on smartphones. Even after the original Farmville was taken off Facebook in , Zynga continued to grow through the development of new games. Tablets Smartwatches Speakers Drones. Accessories Buying Guides How-tos Deals. Health Energy Environment. YouTube Instagram Adobe.
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