Com2uS USA's Don Lim talks about the Korean publisher's great success

okay here we are at GDC in kind of Sunny San Francisco and it's the fck game Sunny was sunny the [ __ ] gam do top 50 developers of 2013 so so we just kicking off so do you want to introduce yourself and tell us what company you work for sure my name is Don Li general manager of come to us USA come to us is the largest and probably one one of the first uh company in the world to make mobile game so we started in 1998 and it's been almost now 14 15th years and from day one until now we've been only focusing on mobile game and you you guys are pretty I think you're one of the few companies that have been in the we've done four years of the top 50 developers and you guys have been in it every year so that's that's pretty impressive so what do you think what do you think you what have you been doing recently that's kind of kind of helped your performance you guys have been performing through the roof uh 2012 was like our pivotal year that we shifted our game from uh paid game to premium and one of our social game called Tiny Farm which is a huge it in Korea I think that Drew of our revenue and our valuation and all the games followed after that become a big hit cuz

the Korean market just in 2012 went through the roof didn't I mean it grew growth was really fast what were the main reasons for that the first reason was the uh the Google Play Market I think drove the market uh because Android is much more uh pervasive and much more popular in Korea so the Google Play revenue and the the distribution was uh off the top and also there's interesting platform business happening in Korea called Kaka talk it's a what is that what's kak kak is a messenger actually it started as a messenger Pro uh uh application and they turn turn them into a a platform business so you can reach out to your real friends through Kaka talk messenger platform so how if you said it's like a mobile Facebook is that kind of bit more than that maybe it's it's similar but but uh the kak talk using kak Talk featur such as as your invitation and gifting it makes it very powerful to to reach your viral friends so that drove lot of revenues and lot of uh uh downloads last year Al we just been discussing I'm

playing one of your games playing what you renamed it it's um home Home Run Battle burst Home Run Battle burst I'm playing it and you're not playing it so that's not you're being very social sort that out well I'm actually I'm already bombarded with so many so many invitation to ask for uh coins hard and too popular it is very very popular yes so so that was that was that was this year last year so what the what the big games we should be looking out for for come to us this year uh this year I think we're going to go straight uh to hardcore gamer I think so of our game called golf star will I think I believe it's going to be the first MMO golf MMO that's going to be available after GDC so look out for a game called golf star and for IOS and Android it's going to blow your mind away I think thank you thank you John