C. Custer · · 1 min readCrossFire is the top-earning freemium game in the world, League of Legends second
A new report from research firm SuperData confirms what a lot of you have probably already guessed: free-to-play online games are making boatloads of money, and Asian games are right at the top of the heap.
According to the report, in 2013 CrossFire was the top-earning free-to-play game in the world, bringing in a whopping $957 million in revenue for developer SmileGate and publisher Tencent. In second place was League of Legends, which earned $624 million for Riot Games and Riot’s majority shareholder, Tencent. The third place spot was held by Nexon’s Dungeon Fighter Online, which racked up $426 million in yearly revenue.
It was a good showing for Korean companies, with Nexon’s Maplestory and NCSoft’s Lineage also making the top ten list. But the big winner is quite obviously China’s Tencent which, although it did not develop League of Legends or CrossFire, is raking in money hand-over-fist from both of them.
(h/t to Gamespot)
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