Incline Massive Incline: "The News Isn’t Good for Zynga, Maker of FarmVille"

[Menckenstein]

I LOVE THE GREAT VIDEO GAMES COLLAPSE OF 2013 THIS MUCH.

 

[DalekFlay]

500 people to make the games they make? Popcap ended up having a similar number total when they fired people.

Talk about corporate fucking bloat.

 

[LordDenton]

I hope the ex-Zynga employees never ever find a programming or game-related job in their life. I hope they all end up at McDonalds, since the fat McDonalds clientele is their primary audience. This way they would be close to their beloved braindead fans.

 

[deuxhero]

I hope the ex-Zynga employees never ever find a programming or game-related job in their life. I hope they all end up at McDonalds, since the fat McDonalds clientele is their primary audience. This way they would be close to their beloved braindead fans.

Only the designers deserve such a curse. It's not like they are Bethesda programers.

 

[dibens]

Gentlemen, this is another victory for us.

 

[evdk]

Gentlemen, this is another victory for us.

Yeah, EA muscling in on the market is a huge win for us.

 

[Jaesun]

I don't really follow shitbook game publisher/developers. Are they still the top? Or are others slowly gaining footholds over Zingas dominance?

 

[racofer]

Bonus for Jaesun:

Spoiler

 

[dibens]

Gentlemen, this is another victory for us.

Yeah, EA muscling in on the market is a huge win for us.

The bigger and more bloated EA gets, the better. It will be a glorious explosion of pus and gore once it reaches it's critical mass.

 

[MisterStone]

I think that the lifetime of the average MUDDer or MMORPGer is about 3-4 years, after that they suddenly realize that they're an adult who spends all of his/her time thinking about shit that isn't real and making phony relationships with people they'll never see face to face. Then they quit and desperately try to salvage what is left of their life.

So basically all of the people who suddenly got hooked on this shit a few years ago have all become over-due and they're quitting. It was pretty much programmed into it from the start. Surely no one actually thought people would play this shit forever?

Anyway, no matter what happens to Zynga, the people who invented that Farmville crud are all rich, and they'll be rich probably for the rest of their lives. So feeling schadenfreude about this is pretty pointless. They only people who lose out are the employees who are going to lose their jobs soon. Not that they dont' deserve it on some level for being part of this abomination... in any case, they'll probably have no trouble finding a job.

 

[Destroid]

Incoming corporate raiders to liquefy the company.

 

[Modron]

Gentlemen, this is another victory for us.

Yeah, EA muscling in on the market is a huge win for us.

The bigger and more bloated EA gets, the better. It will be a glorious explosion of pus and gore once it reaches it's critical mass.

Its a shame that asian mmo company did not buy ea out like it looked like they were going to do a while ago; would have been a glorious dose of irony when they were bought out and shuttered 2 years later before liquidation.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

 

[Kane]

blizzard entering the mobile market.

 

[evdk]

GoldFarmVille

 

[circ]

WHERE IS YOUR BLIZZARD NOW FANBOI?

 

[Ulminati]

Diabloville confirmed for 2015

 

[SwiftCrack]

Dumb old white people invested in a company of which the owner knew that it would bust within five years.

Once again old people in roo-ins.

 

[Brinko]

http://www.chipist.com/2012/10/24/zynga-makes-first-move-toward-real-money-gambling/

Just because Zynga didn’t purchase the OnGame Network doesn’t mean it didn’t have a trick up its sleeve. Today the company announced an exclusive partnership with bwin.party that marks the company’s first move into the holy grail of real-money social gambling. At the moment, the plans seem to suggest that the real-money operations will only occur in the United Kingdom, which falls in line with industry predictions that Zynga would not announce such a plan for U.S. customers.
This is pretty big news, and it will be exciting to see how this announcement impact investor reception of Zynga’s third quarter results. Just yesterday, Zynga axed a whole bunch of folks, and this announcement is feeling like a bit of a bounceback.
It’s worth posting the company’s press release in its entirety because this is a historic industry development. Check back later for more news.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Zynga (Nasdaq:ZNGA), the world’s leading provider of social game services, and bwin.party, the leading international real money gaming operator, today announced an exclusive partnership to offer real money online Poker and Casino games in the UK market. Zynga’s UK-based RMG service and bwin.party will launch RMG products including Poker and a full suite of 180 Casino games in the first half of 2013, which include table games such as slots, roulette and blackjack.
“Bringing together Zynga’s expertise in social gaming with the top international real money gaming operator is the best way to create the highest quality gaming experiences for our players in the UK,” said Barry Cottle, Executive Vice President, Corporate and Business Development, Zynga. “Partnering with an established leader like bwin.party is a strategic and prudent way for us to enter a key RMG market while giving local players the real money games they’ve been asking us for.”
“Today’s announcement is another example of our success in leveraging our assets through strategic blue-chip partners,” said Jim Ryan and Norbert Teufelberger, Co-CEOs of bwin.party. “Zynga is the world’s leader in social games with hundreds of millions of active players worldwide and a significant player base in the UK. We are delighted to have been selected as their chosen partner for this important step in their evolution, and hope to expand our relationship into other products and markets.”
Zynga’s real money UK poker customers will join the bwin.party dotcom player liquidity pool — getting the benefits of playing on the largest regulated poker network. Zynga’s UK-based RMG service will be powered by the established operating platform, software, and related support of bwin.party.
In addition to the full suite of Casino and Poker games, Zynga’s UK-based RMG service will also leverage the company’s world renowned entertainment brand, FarmVille, to offer local players the first-ever, online FarmVille-branded real money slots game.
Zynga’s UK-based RMG service will operate under bwin.party’s Gibraltar gaming license.​

 

[Kattze]

'Gaming industry brethren'

 

[tuluse]

Zynga made money by exploiting a common ticks in human psychology. One was getting people to bother their friends about playing, the other was about the schedule of upgrades and how to form the cost/reward structure as to be as addictive as possible.

Guess what WoW and Diablo 3 do? Guess why Blizzard would be interesting in hiring Zynga employees.

Spoiler

It's not out of a sense of charity

 

[Lubulos]

HIGH LEVEL OF TALENT COMING FROM YOUR COMPANY!

 

[Jaesun]

Blizzard is already making shitty social games. What's the difference?

 

[JarlFrank]

Well the style of Zynga designers would certainly be compatible with the new art direction they took with Diablo 3.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Well the style of Zynga designers would certainly be compatible with the new art direction they took with Diablo 3.

- What art direction?