![]() Gamezebo rated Social City at 3.5 out of 5, highlighting balanced gameplay and "adorable" graphics. Social City also received an honorable mention on Gamasutra's list of the Top 5 Facebook Social Games in 2010. Inside Social Games rated Social City as the #2 Best Facebook Game of the first half of 2010. Social City won the 2010 Game Developers Choice Online Award for Best Social Network Game. Social City – A casual strategy game in which the player develops a city.Guardians of the Galaxy: The Universal Weapon (GotG).Disney Words of Wonder (now renamed " Words of Wonder").Disney City Girl (now renamed " City Girl Life").The following games were sold to RockYou between April and October 2014. Gardens of Time was the most successful Facebook game created by Playdom, with a peak of 17 million monthly active users and 4 million daily active users. On September 1, 2016, Disney Interactive Media Group announced the end of Marvel: Avengers Alliance and its mobile-only sequel, Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2, bringing a close to the studio. RockYou acquired the Facebook games Gardens of Time, Words of Wonder, and Disney City Girl (renamed to City Girl Life). In April 2014, Playdom announced the closure of all online games on the Playdom site, including Gardens of Time, Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Kitchen Scramble, Pirates of the Caribbean: Isles of War, Ghosts of Mistwood, Disney City Girl, and Disney Words of Wonder. In May 2011, Playdom has been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to pay $3 million in fines for collecting and disclosing children's information without parental approval. ![]() The deal also included a further $200 million in additional payments if Playdom achieves certain growth thresholds. 3 social game company with about 42 million monthly players at the time of the acquisition. Disney initially paid $563 million for Playdom, which was the No. On July 27, 2010, The Walt Disney Company acquired Playdom in a $763 million deal. The pricing of the deal was not disclosed. On July 8, 2010, Playdom announced it acquired Metaplace, Inc. This marked Playdom's sixth acquisition over the prior year. ![]() On June 7, 2010, Playdom announced the acquisition of gaming developer Hive7 after a $33 million funding round. On May 19, 2010, they acquired Acclaim Games. On April 26, 2010, Playdom announced the acquisition of Merscom, a North Carolina-based social game developer. In April 2010, Playdom closed all but one of the games from the Green Patch studio six months post-acquisition. On March 31, 2010, Playdom announced the acquisition of Argentina-based online game developer Three Melons for an undisclosed amount. These lawsuits were finally settled in November 2010, less than 4 months after Disney's acquisition of Playdom in July 2010. In September 2009, competitor Zynga initiated a trade secrets lawsuits against Playdom and 22 other rivals, including Green Patch. On November 12, 2009, Playdom acquired Green Patch and Trippert Labs. On September 1, 2016, Disney announced the closure of the remaining Playdom games, Marvel: Avengers Alliance and its mobile sequel at the end of the month, effectively shuttering the studio. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney Interactive, itself a division of The Walt Disney Company. In 2009, the market for games played on social networking sites was valued at $300 million, consisting mostly of online sales of virtual goods. The company was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area by University of California, Berkeley graduates Ling Xiao and Chris Wang and Swarthmore College graduate Dan Yue. Playdom was an online social network game developer popular on Facebook, Google+ and Myspace. John Pleasants, former CEO (resigned from Disney, November 2013)ĭavid Sobeski, former CTO (left Disney, December 2013)Ĭhrista Quarles, CFO (left Disney May 2014)īrad Serwin, former COO (left Disney, March 2012)
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