Zynga estimated to be worth more than EA - Page 5

Reaper9

United States1724 Posts

November 01 2010 21:51 GMT

#81

On November 02 2010 06:46 Alou wrote:
Farmville is a game and it brings more people into gaming. Yes compared to SC2 it's utter trash, but if it makes more people enjoy games and the internet I don't see why it is a bad thing.

That would be fine and dandy if it also wasn't sucking out the souls of people by subliminal messaging. (Although our movie and TV industry, at least in the USA, does that quite splendidly already.) Is Zynga's games addicting? Yea, like opiates. Are they evil? Probably. Does it make the company money? If my ethics didn't get in my way, I would say that it is simply a smashing idea to make easy money.

LOLtex

United States148 Posts

November 01 2010 21:54 GMT

#82

I don't understand the butthurt in this thread. Who cares is Zynga is worth more than EA? So the bored housewives are playing shitty farm games, that doesn't effect me at all. As long as people keep buying the "hardcore" games, there's going to be a market for it. There's going to be developers making games to tap into that market.

And what's with the EA hate? EA makes some pretty damn good games these days, and aren't like the old EA of yesterday. I still like Bad Company 2 and Dead Space (can't wait for DS2!!). Sure, they make some games I'm not interested in like Madden 201X and the other sports titles, but face it; if they weren't making these games, someone else would be. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others can't. Play what you want, buy what you want. No one is forcing you to do anything.

scBane

Netherlands35 Posts

November 01 2010 22:39 GMT

#83

This doesn´t hurt the gaming industry at all, it´s a completely different market. People who play Farmville aren´t really gamers, they would never buy a game in the store, it mostly consists of people who barely know how to turn on their pc and they like to click stuff. It might even help the game industry if more people discover that playing games is fun. Sure they may buy some developers, but that does not say much. If they want to make boring shit for a shitty company then I don´t think they were good developers in the first place.

I don´t get the comparison with EA though, like I said before, it´s a different market. And what LOLtex said sums it up pretty nicely, EA makes some pretty cool games.

It IS sad that a company with no values and only profit in their mind can get this big though, but that's where Facebook comes in.

Count9

China10928 Posts

November 01 2010 22:45 GMT

#84

Now they have enough money to buy another, "real", already profitable gaming company and make it bad but more profitable. Just hope it's not your favorite game. /sigh I'm not angry, but if there were a facepalm option in the poll I'd select that.

TymerA

Netherlands759 Posts

November 01 2010 23:03 GMT

#85

EA published Mass effect.

You have to be mad now :|

Trang

Australia324 Posts

November 01 2010 23:07 GMT

#86

All the people who crying "lol, it's a completely different market" might want to read this article on gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27754/Opinion_Fear_and_Loathing_in_Farmville.php

When you get great people in the gaming industry such as Brian Reynolds who were responsible for games like Civ 2 and Alpha Centauri moving over to making Facebook games because it's more lucrative, you have a potential problem there.

Kennigit

Canada19447 Posts

November 01 2010 23:07 GMT

#87

your lack of effort in an OP makes me sad and angry.

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