When Beijing just welcome the chill wind from Siberia, it’s already late autumn in Moscow.
Russia is
known as the “bellicose nation” for the Chinese. What is the mobile industry like in the 11th
largest market in the world? Let’s find out together. .
White Nights Conference is one of the most influential events in the games industry which is
held in
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Barcelona, Berlin and other cities every year. White Nights Conference
has
connected King, Obsidian, Supercell, Rovio, Bandai Namco, Big Fish, Wargaming, Playrix, Pixonic
and
other famous game developers and over 4000 elites in the games industry.
The Russian games market has great potential, and has its unique language customs and internet
behavior, thus creating huge prospect and challenge for players who want to enter the market.
Now
let’s follow our track on the White Nights Conference and find out the inside of the “bellicose
nation” mobile industry.
When talking about the Russians, the first thing that comes up to our minds may be their robust body and tough style. However, in the tide of mobile development, our “rough” friends are in the leading place – among the 144 million population in Russia, about 113 million are Internet users, adding up to a penetration rate of 78.5%. In Russia, Android is still the mainstream, taking up nearly 70% market share.
According to Newzoo’s data released in June, there are over 65.2 game players in Russia,
creating
$1.7 billion revenue, ranking the 11th in the globe.
For a “nation to fight”, games are not a “masculine” figure. Female game players have taken
almost
the same account as their male counterpart in the Russian games market, and their willingness to
pay
in the games are even higher than male, making them especially preferred by game developers.
Online Gaming Statistics
According to App Annie, SLG and RPG have taken over 60% of the Russian games market. And ELEX
(China), Plarium (Israel) and Supercell (Finland) have contributed most of the games in the Top
100
SLG list.
Take the ELEX work "Clash of Kings" as an example, these epic war games were designed with the
background of medieval Europe. Since it was launched in 2014, the game began to take over the
Top
lists for 4 consecutive years and remains at the Top 10 Grossing list.
Google Play Company Listing - Russia, August 2018
App Statistics - Russia, August 2018
However, in order to make progress in advertising and monetizing in Russia, it not enough to only understand their Russian-favored English. In a country with less than 10% people who can understand English, it’s vital for organizations to make more efforts on localizing their products and services, adjust the games design, advert placement setting, creatives design according to local habits.
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seeing you in the late autumn of Moscow, and "fight" together with the "fighting nation".
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