Perfect World released its first half operating results for 2022. Among them, game revenue was 3.736 billion yuan, up about 10%.
The parent company’s profit alone was 1.183 billion yuan, up 430% year-on-year, and comprehensive gross profit margin increased from 55% in the same period last year to 68%.
The report also said that for now, Perfect World is mainly focused on MMOs and card games to drive catalog innovation and catalog integration.
Among the active MMOs are the mobile games Tru Tien Mobile, Dream Fantasy Tan Tru Tien, Perfect World: Battle of the Gods, PC game Zhu Xian and Perfect World International Edition Both have stable markets.
In the first half of the year, the game especially Tower of Fantasy brought success and great revenue for the company. Sales are fourth on the list in Europe, USA, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The game also reached the top 40 countries including the United States, Canada, Japan and Singapore; ranked first in the list of free iOS games in 2019 and regions, and entered the list of 10 highest grossing iOS games in 30 countries and regions.
In addition, the report also mentions that the MMO version of Tieu Ngao Giang Ho, tested with Angelica X graphics technology developed by Perfect World itself. The product is optimized and adjusted to the original. According to the report, Perfect World’s R&D expenses in the first half of 2022 increased 25% year-on-year, totaling 1.052 billion yuan.
During MMO research, on the 19th of this month, Perfect World will test the new series Zhu Xian World for the first time. This is an MMO terminal game developed based on Unreal 4 engine. Last year, at ChinaJoy the game was revealed. At the same time, many games such as Thien Long Bat Bo 2, Tan Tru Tien The World, Tru Tien 2 are being implemented.
It also has a variety of turn-based card games that are primarily focused on CCG multiplayer and have Roguelike integration and fun team play.
Black Cat Anecdote is a female card game mobile that has 270,000 pre-orders on TapTap. The ratings on TapTap and Haoyou Kuaibang reached 8.2 and 8.9 respectively. The game will officially launch on August 24.
In addition to the game business, the company is also promoting the platform business. Perfect World’s Steam platform introduced and revealed 80 new products, and said it will continue to promote the localization of products overseas.