Zynga Has Lost $US160m This Year So Far

14 responses to “Zynga Has Lost $US160m This Year So Far”

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   Bob

   October 25, 2012 at 9:55 am

   I find great joy in seeing this horrible company crumble. Just wish the money they lost went to the developers they plagiarized all their games from.

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      Jake

      October 25, 2012 at 10:02 am

      This. I didn’t hate Farmville, but they plagiarised EVERYTHING. Happy Aquarium was out for 3 months before Fishville, and they stole pretty much all the ideas from it. It was shocking, and they did it with a tonne of games. Blatant plagiarism left right and centre, and I’m glad people are finally realising that annoying your friends and being tempted by real world money purchases aren’t the future of gaming.

      It’s funny, 3 years ago all the tech websites were citing the fall of core gaming, and how social gaming would take over. Now social gaming is slowly dying, but they’re claiming shallow mobile games will destroy the handheld market. I’m beginning to think that (most) shallow games like this will be popular for awhile, and then slowly die off. Angry Birds is still selling more copies than Angry Birds Space, which might sound alright but it doesn’t exactly look promising for the future of the franchise, when you aren’t guaranteed more sales from developing a newer, more expensive title.

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         copying

         October 25, 2012 at 11:57 am

         yes…. because once someone has created an aquarium game, no one else should make a similar one. because people never ever copy others. whats that? someone had a baby – hey baby, don’t you dare learn to speak or walk by copying me.

         unless you can prove they plagiarized by stealing CODE, its copying.

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   2. 

      Freeze S. Preston Icequire

      October 25, 2012 at 10:03 am

      Yeah, isn’t it awesome seeing all those people lose their jobs and families lose their financial support :S

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   3. 

      ShiggyNinty

      October 25, 2012 at 10:10 am

      Well you’re heartless aren’t you?

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         Jake

         October 25, 2012 at 10:20 am

         Double Fine lost programmers to Zynga. They’ll just have to go back to making games instead of making social game versions of shovelware.

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   bigfoot

   October 25, 2012 at 10:00 am

   A company based on fads will always die off quickly unless they can be innovative and create something new to attract their players. Heck, maybe even start an IP with a storyline instead of just making gimmicky social games.

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3. 

   kavliari

   October 25, 2012 at 10:12 am

   Too big too fast.

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   HERPyourDERP

   October 25, 2012 at 11:58 am

   haha! oh wow.

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   fortalyst

   October 25, 2012 at 12:33 pm

   I actually wonder how they’ve managed to lose so much money when so many of their games should be providing them with income. Would be keen to see where their expenses have been going.

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   inkk_412

   October 25, 2012 at 12:33 pm

   Well, that escalated quickly.

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   Fat

   October 25, 2012 at 4:08 pm

   Fuck zynga.

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   Nanotq

   October 26, 2012 at 9:06 am

   Just goes to show the power of the consumer/gamer. If you are going to try and rip off the community in both the production of games and in app purchasing, its going to get old quick and we will know…so now the game is up…bye! Unoriginal hacks.

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   Franz

   October 26, 2012 at 11:15 am

   Time to ramp up the efforts on shorting Zynga stocks.

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