More City. Less Ville. – Sim City Social Set To Take Center Stage

Something NEW IS COMING! And….

If You Don’t Like Mafia Wars Then Go Play Sim City Social!

Ok, you can’t … yet. But, about the beginning of July you will be able to. That is about when the game is slated to go live. 

Check out the trailer;

If you visit Sim City Social On Facebook you can acquire 3 free gifts before the game is released.

Aside from Electronic Arts, some are expecting this game to rival some of Zynga’s top games. The following is from an article on SeekingAlpha.com;

SimCity Social Is Here, Is Zynga Gone?

By Matthew Kanterman

Electronic Arts (EA) announced yesterday at its press conference at E3 that it is releasing a social version of SimCity, known as SimCity Social, which is set to compete with one of Zynga's (ZNGA) mainstay games, Farmville, and subsequent games such as Cityville. SimCity Social will be available in about three weeks, says Lucy Bradshaw, Senior VP of Maxis, the unit that is responsible for the Sim series of games.

If successful, this new launch could significantly hurt Zynga, as it shows that the life-span of the first mover advantage into social games may quickly be going. SimCity is a brand that has a strong group of followers, and the migration of a large number of Farmville users to SimCity Social would be a death blow to Zynga. Last year, the Sims Social already attracted more monthly active users than any Zynga game, and SimCity Social may even overtake that. The question becomes, how many users will Zynga lose and how does it make up for this?

I agree that Sim City has a strong fan base, I being one of them. But, to claim that “Sims Social has more monthly active users than any Zynga game” is not apparently accurate. That is at least not on Facebook alone. 

On facebook The Sims Social has less than half the MAU as Texas Hold’em Poker and CityVille.

SimCity Social may have the potential to cut into the Zynga stronghold some, however. In 5 days the associated ‘Get Free Stuff’ app has 370,000 MAU. 

Electronic Arts needs to be careful because many fans of these social games are growing weary of them and the ploys and antics of the companies trying to make money off of them. If the game is playable at our leisure and we are not pounded with endless missions or items or, in this case, buildings that require the help of 100’s of friends or time clocks that we need to be there for night and day then this game could rise to the top of the AppData.com Leader Boards. The money will be there so please make the events ‘special’ again and not ‘constant’! Please grow the game and not drive it into the ground! Please allow the game to be fun and not a chore or burden! I’m talking to you too Zynga!

At least for now, there is something to be excited about and that is hopefully there will be ‘More City And Less Ville.”