Zynga: CityVille already hailed as biggest 'Ville' release

by Steven Mostyn - Dec 8 2010, 11:40

Bad news for FarmVille fans struggling to keep their real lives on track while managing virtual crops and animals. Namely, videogame publisher Zynga’s latest free-to-play software juggernaut looks set to plunge you (and us) back into the welcoming arms of addiction.

 

More pointedly, Zynga has revealed that more than 1.2 million players are already enjoying the mayoral gameplay duties associated with its newly launched CityVille title. The city-management game, which launched last week, also represents the publisher’s biggest ever launch after it amassed 290,000 users during its first day of download availability. 

Although clearly extremely popular with the Facebook crowd, it’s perhaps worth noting that CityVille is also the first Zynga game to be released internationally (in localisations of English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish).

By way of comparison where launch momentum and Zynga’s growing popularity are concerned, previous ‘Ville’ series entrant FrontierVille pulled in 116,000 players during its opening 24 hours. That particular title, which is a Wild West sim, has since gone on to attract the attentions of around 6.5 million players per day and a monthly user base of just under 30 million.

CityVille is certainly off to a great start, according to Zynga, which has revealed that players have already constructed more than 2.7 million homes, 500,000 bakeries, and five million sections of road.

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