Candy Crush to be taken over by Blizzard!

Pawnless Endgame · 3 Nov 2015 at 15:47

BBC news link.

This one surprised me! The Bejeweled-like game, made by King will soon be part of Blizzard. I remember Bejeweled itself was one an app/mod playable from inside the World of Warcraft game, so guess that mod will soon be replaced with Candy Crush!

How will this affect Frozen Freefall? That was just a clone of Candy Crush right down to the power-ups. Combining the power-ups did the same too. So I presume King leased the game, or at least the game engine to Disney? Cinderella Freefall, while similar to Frozen Freefall (i.e. a match-3 game) has the same game engine but isn't a clone of Candy Crush.

Ayahuasca · 3 Nov 2015 at 15:49

The buyout cost is absolutely insane

Deathjester · 3 Nov 2015 at 15:58

Ayahuasca said:
The buyout cost is absolutely insane

$5.9 Bn is mental.
Although as they say, it does give them access to a massive group of female tablet & phone gamers which it previously wasn't reaching.

BluD · 3 Nov 2015 at 16:08

Lol, ive never tried Candy Crush, but i did give Tetris a go once, didnt think much of that. I dont understand all these mini-games inside WoW, some of my friends are so busy doing them they dont actually raid or PVP anymore.

cheesyboy · 3 Nov 2015 at 16:14

Seems an insane amount of money to pay for the company, especially when you compare it to something like Minecraft, which was a "mere" $2.5billion.

Saw somewhere that King was making $2million a year, though. Incredible.

Pawnless Endgame · 3 Nov 2015 at 16:53

BluD said:
Lol, ive never tried Candy Crush, but i did give Tetris a go once, didnt think much of that. I dont understand all these mini-games inside WoW, some of my friends are so busy doing them they dont actually raid or PVP anymore.

Yeah I never did the mini-games thing back in my WoW days either.

Have you ever played Sega Colums? Bejeweled is very similar in that it falls in the "match-3" genre. 4 or 5 matches (instead of 3) in a row created various power-ups. Candy Crush is the same type of game, just elaborating on power-ups further. I've only played Disney's Frozen Freefall but I know it's a clone, like as if King has leased the game engine out.

P.S. Zuma is also classified as match-3 genre, but is very different to Bejeweled / Candy Crush / Frozen. Think of Space Invaders / Asteroids... but with marbles

Gregster · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:05

Incoming invites to play

agnes · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:28

There are minigames inside WoW? That the?

God that game has gone down the pan lol.

Pawnless Endgame · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:41

agnes said:
There are minigames inside WoW? That the?

God that game has gone down the pan lol.

I played WoW mainly 2005-9 era but yeah some mini-games got added after I left. Apparently the games (Bejeweled etc) got added to Facebook too. Guess they played as browser games e.g. Flash inside the browser?

Tune · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:53

Pawnless Endgame said:
I played WoW mainly 2005-9 era but yeah some mini-games got added after I left. Apparently the games (Bejeweled etc) got added to Facebook too. Guess they played as browser games e.g. Flash inside the browser?

What? Where did you get that from? nothing even close to that in wow.

opstrat · 3 Nov 2015 at 17:58

They are addons that you can add to play in game.

Was good to play when you were on long flight paths. obviously not needed now

MadMouse101 · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:01

WOW $5.9bn (£3.8bn)

Drollic · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:13

A truly boring game literally sugar coated.

Glanza · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:28

More Activision side than Blizzard,

It's bizarre that they've paid more for candy crush than Disney paid for Star Wars.

Rozzy85 · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:05

Candy Crush will generate far more revenue than WoW ever could so no surprise. The brand name is worth that alone. It's the no.1 Bookface gambling app that even your granny plays.

Pawnless Endgame · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:33

Glanza said:
More Activision side than Blizzard,

It's bizarre that they've paid more for candy crush than Disney paid for Star Wars.

o.. m.. g.. just googled it myself, and yes Star Wars was only acquired for $4bn, and Candy Crush for $5.9bn! Certainly an eye-opener O.o

Surely King's revenue cannot be greater than Blizzard's? I thought that WoW would be near the top of the bestsellers list, alongside Sims, Mario, Sonic, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, GTA and some of the FPS games like Halo?

SonniLombardi · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:42

Ridiculous money, I wonder how this world works sometimes....

ADT · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:45

That's a lot of money for a game like that. What is the world coming to...

Glanza · 3 Nov 2015 at 21:21

Pawnless Endgame said:
o.. m.. g.. just googled it myself, and yes Star Wars was only acquired for $4bn, and Candy Crush for $5.9bn! Certainly an eye-opener O.o

Surely King's revenue cannot be greater than Blizzard's? I thought that WoW would be near the top of the bestsellers list, alongside Sims, Mario, Sonic, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, GTA and some of the FPS games like Halo?

It's the monthly subs that make WoW so profitable, there's still currently 5.5 million players paying.

ShortWarning · 4 Nov 2015 at 12:17

Is Candy Crush still that profitable and if it is, for how long? It seems like it may have been bought at the wrong end of its life cycle.