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CursedRich
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom737 Posts
August 09 2012 08:31 GMT
#41
Normal US tech IPO, blow smoke up everyones arse as to how much potential the company has, oversell the stock, get out in the first year post float, and let the market suck up the losses. Also the mandatory bent exec's selling their shares based on insider information before announcing poor results.
Chill Winston......
Th0R
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada359 Posts
August 09 2012 08:35 GMT
#42
Zynga is just terrible for the gaming industry in general. I hope they die out quickly.
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IcedBacon
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada906 Posts
August 09 2012 08:51 GMT
#43
Actual gamers tend to hate Zynga because of their strategy of stealing games/ideas and throwing a new name on it.
"I went Zerg because Artosis is a douchebag." -IdrA
LeSioN
Profile Joined November 2010
United States325 Posts
August 09 2012 09:08 GMT
#44
i have a feeling the more acurate reasoning is that bigger name developers are throwing their weight into this scene. my gf loooooves the sims. been playing since the first sims, she has sims 3 and all expanions. she exclusively plays sims social on facebook. </anecdotal evidence>
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2012/08/ea-sues-zynga-for-copyright-infringement/1#.UCN9v51lTNU
Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
[N3O]r3d33m3r
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany673 Posts
August 09 2012 09:09 GMT
#45
i'm glad they are on the fall, social games can't be profitable forever, you need quality products.
zynga had one thing going for them, and that was a hub (facebook) where they could get their games out to millions of people..
BlackPanther
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States872 Posts
August 09 2012 09:11 GMT
#46
Good. I hope this social gaming phenomena goes away. The games are shitty and it takes money out of AAA game development.
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
August 09 2012 09:13 GMT
#47
good stuff. never liked the company beside the recruiter girl at the career fair. She was pretty.
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JKM
Profile Joined November 2011
Denmark419 Posts
August 09 2012 09:38 GMT
#48
On August 09 2012 17:35 Th0R wrote:
Zynga is just terrible for the gaming industry in general. I hope they die out quickly.


Why are they terrible? I don't like social games, but I doubt that they take money that would otherwise have ended up in "true" gaming companies. If you want to hate something about Zynga and the bunch, it should be that they seemingly have not had one original idea in their entire existence, which I find rather disgusting.

As a gamer I don't like social games, but mainly because they are games you don't get good at. Time + money = being good in a social game. In starcarft 2 rts talent + time (amount of pracc.) determines your placement!
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Mentalizor
Profile Joined January 2011
Denmark1596 Posts
August 09 2012 11:52 GMT
#49
I've always had a special place in my heart filled with hatred towards Zynga. Even though it's a shame for a lot of employees who work for zynga as their everyday job, I just can't support anything the company is doing. Facebook games might actually be alright... But the way Zynga is spamming (via "invite friend") and replicating what other people invented is just through the roof uncharismatic.
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_hate
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Japan112 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-09 11:56:59
August 09 2012 11:56 GMT
#50
1. Summer is usually the low season.
2. Zynga's market strategy is basically copying games and marketing them better than the counterparts.
3. The OMGPOP aquisition didn't exactly help them.

On August 09 2012 18:38 JKM wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2012 17:35 Th0R wrote:
Zynga is just terrible for the gaming industry in general. I hope they die out quickly.


Why are they terrible? I don't like social games, but I doubt that they take money that would otherwise have ended up in "true" gaming companies. If you want to hate something about Zynga and the bunch, it should be that they seemingly have not had one original idea in their entire existence, which I find rather disgusting.

As a gamer I don't like social games, but mainly because they are games you don't get good at. Time + money = being good in a social game. In starcarft 2 rts talent + time (amount of pracc.) determines your placement!

number 2
Ktk
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Korea (South)753 Posts
August 09 2012 11:57 GMT
#51
I felt that after everyone heard about it, the company would be doomed to find new fantastic temporarily addicting games otherwise face no profits in their freemium model.

And I guess that's sort of what happened?
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
August 09 2012 12:08 GMT
#52
My friends play facebook games a lot less, at least I don't see the "feed my cows" for farmville on peoples' wall anymore. I think people are just learning these games are purely addicting with no entertainment value whatsoever, they just have that magic grasp on people.

The sooner they are gone, the better for the social aspect of the world.
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Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
August 09 2012 12:18 GMT
#53
They've been fishing around looking for a poker provider to partner with in anticipation of the impending US legislation...
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c0ldfusion
Profile Joined October 2010
United States8293 Posts
August 09 2012 12:22 GMT
#54
On August 09 2012 21:18 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
They've been fishing around looking for a poker provider to partner with in anticipation of the impending US legislation...


I've heard some rumors about that.

What's the impending legislation though?
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4338 Posts
August 09 2012 13:08 GMT
#55
Sounds like another gimmick dying off to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
Arceus
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Vietnam8333 Posts
August 09 2012 13:13 GMT
#56
gotta that bubble safari game is pretty decent
Zato-1
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Chile4253 Posts
August 09 2012 13:41 GMT
#57
A short article that nicely recaps the Zynga debacle so far, including the fresh resignation of the company's COO:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118962-Zynga-COO-Bails
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Greggle
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1131 Posts
August 09 2012 14:23 GMT
#58
It's refreshing to see less diarrhea on facebook.
Life is too short to take it seriously.
thedz
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States217 Posts
August 09 2012 17:49 GMT
#59
This has been going around the tubes today:

http://www.quora.com/Zynga/How-do-Zynga-employees-feel-about-the-companys-summer-2012-stock-price-drop

I feel for the employees. Startup hours are always rough, and especially so when the planned for exit doesn't meet expectations.
101toss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
3232 Posts
August 09 2012 19:10 GMT
#60
^from what I know most startups are actually pretty chill

Also zynga isn't really a startup now
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