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Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« on: December 02, 2012, 12:08:30 am »
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(Reuters) - Shares of gaming company Zynga Inc fell as much as 10 percent, a day after the "Farmville" creator reached an agreement with Facebook Inc that reduces its dependence on the social networking giant.

The companies reported in regulatory filings on Thursday that they have reached an agreement to amend a 2010 deal that was widely seen as giving Zynga privileged status on the world's No.1 social network. Zynga gets a freer hand to operate a standalone gaming website, but gives up its ability to promote its site on Facebook and to draw from the thriving social network of about 1 billion users.

Congratulations you fucked up Farmville, the only reasons Farmville was successful was Facebook. Due to lots and lots of bored Facebook addicts.

Notable things Zynga has done other than Farmville:



LOL look at that stock crash and burn. Used to peak at $14.69 per share now it is within the range of $2.XX At least we found out where all the money went.

Oh look past involvement with EA burned them too. Now with more denial!

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FORTUNE -- John Schappert has resigned as chief operating officer of Zynga (ZNGA), just weeks after losing oversight of game development in a corporate restructuring.Schappert had joined the social gaming company in May 2011, after having served as COO of Electronic Arts (EA). It is not believed that a recent EA lawsuit against Zynga played any role in Schappert's resignation.

But wait there’s more! Take a guess what the lawsuit by EA was about.

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Last week, Electronic Arts ($EA) sued Zynga ($ZNGA) for copyright infringement because Zynga’s “The Ville” game allegedly takes too much of EA’s “Sims Social” game.  Lawsuits like these are rare in the games industry, for good reason.  Imitation of other manufacturers’ games is standard in the industry, and every major industry player does it frequently.  As my peer Prof. James Grimmelmann wrote, “the [games] industry has developed a dysfunctional culture of copycattery.”  Bringing a lawsuit that redefines the industry’s practices about games imitation could lead to a counterproductive outcome.  Even if EA wins this lawsuit (which I doubt), the resulting legal precedent could give more powerful tools to future plaintiffs suing EA for imitating their games.  Because everyone in the industry lives in a glass house, the major industry participants (wisely) choose not to throw stones.


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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2012, 12:33:00 am »
Hey, Zynga has done relatively notable things other than Farmville.

For one, they formed a partnership with Hasbro.  As much as you seem to revel in Zynga losing stock value and write it off as worthless, it's no small company.  Now maybe I'm just biased as a brony, but I sure the hell hope that their financial situation doesn't cause problems for Hasbro.
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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2012, 03:06:35 am »
Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast, B.  They're nigh-invincible.
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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2012, 03:15:49 am »
Yeaaaaaah...doesn't Hasbro, by extension, own D&D?  If they do, the only thing that'd take them down would be a nuclear bomb.
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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2012, 04:49:08 am »
.....Hasbro is a little known company that owns FUCKING TRANSFORMERS!

Ironbite-not in the slightest will this even worry their asses.

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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2012, 02:57:21 pm »
Yeah. Zynga going the way of the dodo will not affect Hasbro in the slightest. Zynga may be "big", but that's like comparing a really big ant to a whale. Hasbro owns so many things that are integral to American culture (and in some ways, worldwide culture) that almost nothing could seriously harm it. I mean, they own MONOPOLY. You don't lose when you own Monopoly. Ever.

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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2012, 04:36:35 pm »
Will someone please enlighten me as to why Zynga needed to be “big”? What the actual fuck are they doing that requires them to be “big”?

Their business model is to make shitty knock offs of other video games.
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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2012, 06:26:29 pm »
Greed the CEO had a good small model but wanted more.

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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2012, 06:36:59 pm »
Hasbro may in the future be owned by Disney, according to the rumor.

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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2012, 06:41:00 pm »
Good, maybe soon I won't log into FB thinking that somebody loves me, when really it's just Zynga alert.
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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2012, 07:29:21 pm »
Hasbro may in the future be owned by Disney, according to the rumor.

Considering the awesomeness of Wreck It Ralph, which I just saw today... I'm kinda neutral on that prospect.
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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2012, 08:01:56 pm »
To me, the best part of the whole Zynga debacle was the ad "Now, play Words With Friends live with our new board game!"

We've been able to do that for over 70 years.  IT'S CALLED SCRABBLE.
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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2012, 08:15:25 pm »
Hasbro may in the future be owned by Disney, according to the rumor.

Considering the awesomeness of Wreck It Ralph, which I just saw today... I'm kinda neutral on that prospect.

I'm neutral on the subject, and wants to wait and see, also. But this may be because one of my main obsessions has just been taken over by Disney.

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« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2012, 09:31:56 pm »
To me, the best part of the whole Zynga debacle was the ad "Now, play Words With Friends live with our new board game!"

We've been able to do that for over 70 years.  IT'S CALLED SCRABBLE.

My thoughts exactly when I first saw that ad.

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Re: Zynga is dying and nothing of value will be lost.
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2012, 09:45:53 pm »
To me, the best part of the whole Zynga debacle was the ad "Now, play Words With Friends live with our new board game!"

We've been able to do that for over 70 years.  IT'S CALLED SCRABBLE.

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