On April 11, the official website of the State Press and Publication Administration announced the latest batch of domestic online game approval information. A total of 45 games received version numbers. This is the first game version number announced by the State Press and Publication Administration since July 2021.
45 games received version numbers
The list shows that game companies, including Heartbeat Network, Youzu Network, Dreamland, 4399, 37 Interactive Entertainment, Gigabit, etc., have products on the list, and the specific list is as follows:
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On July 22, 2021, the State Press and Publication Administration announced that 87 games in July 2021 received version numbers, but no new version number approval information has been announced since then. The releases are the first in 2022 and the first to be released since July 2021.
In fact, before the State Press and Publication Administration released the list, on April 11, the news that many games had been released in the game circle had begun to circulate.
On the evening of April 11, the official Weibo of TapTap, a game forum under the Heartbeat Network, announced the version number information obtained by "Party Star". According to the information, on April 8, the State Press and Publication Administration agreed to publish the domestic mobile network game "Party Star", which is operated by the heartbeat network.
In addition, the domestic computer network game "Sword Net 3 Origins" operated by Chengdu Xishan Jushiyou Technology Co., Ltd., the "Tower Hunter" operated by Xiamen Thunder Interactive Network Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the listed company Gigabit, the "Dream Voyage" operated by Shanghai Hardcom Network Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of 37 Interactive Entertainment, and the "Divine Beast King Kong Infinite Battlefield" operated by Chengdu Thunder Beast Interactive Technology Co., Ltd., have also obtained version numbers, and the approval time is also April 8.
On the evening of April 11, the news that the game version number was re-approved was also screened in the game circle.
A number of game industry practitioners have previously told the Securities Times · E company reporter, major game companies currently have products in the application version number, this year, some key games online plan has been affected by the impact of approval has been delayed.
Industry insiders said that after the version number is restored, game companies can accelerate the launch of new products, the lack of new games in the market will gradually ease, and players can also enjoy more high-quality games.
On April 11, some stocks rose sharply before the session. As of press time, NetEase is up 7.8%, and Bilibili is up more than 9%.
In the past three years, the cumulative number of approved versions is about 3300
Since April 2018, the game version number has been suspended for about 8 months, and after the resumption of distribution in December of that year, the version number approval is significantly more stringent, and the number of approved game version numbers is significantly reduced compared with before the suspension.
The duration of the suspension of approval for this round of editions is basically the same as that of 2018.
According to the statistics of e company reporters, since 2019, the State Press and Publication Administration has approved a total of 3352 game version numbers, of which 1365 in 2019, 1308 in 2020 and 679 in 2021, respectively, and the number of version numbers continues to shrink. In 2016 and 2017, the approved game version numbers were 4050 and 9369 respectively.
Industry insiders told the e company reporter that the trend of game version approval is strict and tight, this trend has not changed, game companies need to focus more on high-quality games, while improving the ability to develop overseas markets, in order to continuously enhance their competitiveness.
With the significant reduction in the number of editions, domestic games have embarked on the road of improving quality and reducing quantity in recent years. In overseas markets, the competitiveness of domestic games has also been continuously strengthened.
According to the data, in 2021, the actual sales revenue of China's self-developed games in overseas markets reached 18.013 billion US dollars, an increase of 16.59% year-on-year, an increase of significantly higher than the actual sales revenue of the domestic game market of 6.4%.