Making Hero was a necessity for King Digital. The rank 5, rank 6, rank 8, rank 9, and rank 10 top-grossing Android apps are also games under the RPG genre. The fourth top-grossing app on Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Play Store is the online RPG title Art of Sword. King Digital needs to monetize the fast-growing number of RPG players on Android/iOS devices. It makes sense therefore to bring the same player-versus-player excitement of Diablo 3 to mobile devices. Thirty million units of Diablo 3 was sold by August 2015. Mobile Role Playing Games Is Becoming More Popularĭiablo 3 was a very successful PC/console game title for Blizzard. This was likely due to King being stuck for too long on making match-3 puzzle games. As you can see from the chart below from Statista, King's quarterly revenue was on a downward trend since Q1 2015. However, getting involved in macho-inspired hack-en-slash mobile games is a giant leap forward. King Digital's match-3 puzzle games are still highly profitable. Now under the control of Activision Blizzard, King Digital has expanded its portfolio to include a Diablo 3-like game for mobile gamers.ĭiversification is always good for any publisher. King Digital made most of its money from match-3 puzzle mobile games like Candy Crush Saga and Candy Crush Soda Saga. One of the good things that happened after Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: NASDAQ: ATVI) completed its $5.9 billion takeover of King Digital is the release of Hero, a role-playing-game (RPG) for Android.

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