ABOUT US
Frogster America Inc. was founded in 2008 to bring high-quality online games to the North American market. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Frogster Interactive Pictures AG, a Berlin-based publisher of online computer games. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we focus on the operation and marketing of MMO games that appeal to a global audience. In early 2009 we launched our first game, Runes of Magic. The company is well positioned for success with a rapidly growing community and strong initial title on which to establish its market presence.
Frogster Interactive Pictures AG
Frogster Interactive Pictures AG is a listed Berlin-based publisher of online computer games. Frogster focuses on the operation and marketing of virtual worlds, so-called massively multiplayer online games (MMO games) - one of the strongest growing sectors in the entertainment industry.
MMO Games are persistent, interactive virtual worlds in excellent 3D-visual quality, in which thousands of members use their individual avatars to interact, building a virtual existence . The high identification with the own virtual hero and the outstanding richness of experience results in the majority of users spending between 10 to 40 hours weekly in their virtual world – apart from the subscription fees required this also leads to an increased willingness to pay for purely virtual items. This entertainment service is usually been offered for a monthly subscription fee. Alternatively the virtual worlds are made available for free, giving users the possibility and some extra incentive to acquire virtual items by micropayment methods. Frogster already operates four MMO Games in both, the subscription and the free-to-play model.
Frogster Interactive Pictures AG has been founded in 2005 after a management buy-out of a PC games publisher. Focussing on online games, the publishing business of conventional pc games was closed.
The Berlin-based subsidiary Frogster Online Gaming GmbH has arisen from the merger of OnlineWelten, the largest German language MMO and gaming portal with Yusho, operator and service provider for virtual worlds. The company runs its own hardware infrastructure with a proprietary billing system for subscriptions and virtual items and operates and markets MMO games in Europe (Frogster stake 71%). Frogster Asia Co., Ltd. based in Seoul, Korea, develops MMO games and is planning to launch and operate virtual worlds in Asia beginning in 2009 (stake 60%). Frogster America Inc. based in San Francisco, USA, began the operation and marketing of MMO games in North America in January 2009 (stake 90%).
Among other titles the Frogster group owns several promising MMO game licences such as ‘The Chronicles of Spellborn’ and ‘Runes of Magic’ . In 2008 Frogster was granted the award of “Landmark in the Land of Ideas”, in a campaign under the patronage of the German Federal President Dr. Horst Köhler.
The Frogster group currently employs a team of more than 100 personnel in the departments Licensing, Localisation, Product Management, QA, Community Management, Marketing & PR, Hosting, Billing, Sales, Customer Support, Finance, Administration and Management.
Office | San Francisco
Office | San Francisco
I love the game. It is so much more realistic than life. [Oscar Wilde]
If you can dream it, you can do it. [Walt Disney]
We are there to make another world. [W. Edwards Deming]
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. [Winston Churchill]
