“FIFA Online 3M,” First Mobile Game App to Score 1M Downloads

According to Naver, the successful mobile game was made available for download as soon as its exclusive debutonNaver App Store on March 27 and hit the million-download mark in just six weeks.(image:NEXON)

SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – “FIFA Online 3M” has become the first mobile-dedicated game application to surpass the million-download mark on Naver App Store.

“FIFA Online 3M,” the mobile version of famous online game “FIFA Online 3,” is a football game which features all the real players and clubs in major football leagues all around the world and also the personal squad saved in the “FIFA Online 3″ account is directly transferrable to manage in the mobile version.

According to Naver, the successful mobile game was made available for download as soon as its exclusive debuton Naver App Store on March 27 and hit the million-download mark in just six weeks. This is the first time an application was downloaded for over a million times, since the opening of the app store.

In celebration of the application’s record breaking, Naver plans to hold a sweepstake,give awaythe “Brazuca,” 2013 FIFA World Cup official match ball, and hand out discount coupons to incumbent users. Special events are also going to be arranged on the match days of Korea’s national team in the World Cup.

Kim Jun Young, director of Naver Game & App Store, said, “Some of the applications other than game apps have been achieving hitsas well, including “Catch-it English” an English learning app in which its aggregated download numbers have peaked over 170,000 since its launch last December.We hope to see more successes coming with applications regarding various other fields.”

Written by John Choi (johnchoi@koreabizwire.com)

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