In these times where the gaming community has grown so much, phones have begun to give competition to consoles, one of the games that is advancing in the race is Garena Free Fire.
As one of the first of the company it is not surprising that, people have a growing curiosity to know where it came from and who invented it.
That is why in this small section you will learn everything about the game that is on the lips of many people, and that has gone viral all over the world. Soon you will start playing and inviting friends to play Garena Free Fire with you!
Who invented Garena Free Fire?
This product is the work of a company called 111 dot, who were in charge of developing it, but really the company that was in charge of its global distribution was Garena.
This is a company based in Southeast Asia (Singapore to be specific), its founding took place 11 years ago in 2009. It was founded by what was and is currently its main boss Forrest Lin who is the CEO of the company .
Garena
The initials of the company in charge of the game mean “Global” and of course “Arena”. They are a digital training company whose market is mainly Southeast Asia.
Thanks to the great success of their title, they have been expanding their market to many more parts of the world (one of their star titles being Garena Free Fire).
It should be noted that for the year 2015 its value in the market at the time was 2.5 billion, a figure that is believed to have risen a lot, taking into consideration that Free Fire was launched two years later, (the current figure is not known, but it is known or estimates that it is superior).
Of course, Garena Free Fire is the main reason for its current popularity, but I’m sure you didn’t know that Garena also handles the distribution of many other games.
Through their platform they are in charge of distributing a catalog of exclusive games for Latin America, among which we have League of Legends and FIFA online. Therefore, obviously it is to play Garena Free Fire on my PlayStation or Xbox video game console.
But we also have some that are less popular and just as good, such as Alliance of Valient Arms or Arena of Valor. Garena is only responsible for its distribution to their credit they only have two titles of their own.
Free Fire an unknown title that broke the Internet
Garena Free Fire was the company’s first own title (with its beta version published in November 2017 and its final version in December of the same year), on Android devices it came in first place in the votes of the year 2018 (most popular game according to data). from the Play Store).
If we join them with the data from the Apple store, it was the game with the most downloads of that same year, placing it in second position in Battle Royale with the most downloads, beating games like Fornite.
But if you don’t just believe in words, just look at their data, in 2018 (its best year), Garena Free Fire achieved the impressive sum of 182 million downloads, and achieved a net collection of 19.3 million dollars in revenue every month (a hit for any company).
Not satisfied with this, it is currently estimated that Free Fire exceeds 500 million users (still located at the top of the world ranking of best games, which makes it even more impressive for being a mobile game).
When Garena Free Fire came out it broke the internet, during the year 2018 and in the years that followed, it gained the popularity it has today, being the subject of memes, viral videos, tutorials, and contributing to the emergence of many content creators, who stand out in mobile games.
