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Zynga Aiming To Conquer Mobile Next
donniebaseball23 writes "Zynga's presence in mobile gaming is nowhere near its dominance of social gaming on Facebook, but according to chief designer Brian Reynolds, Zynga's looking to change that. '[Mobile] is something that we actively care about, think about. It's the major place where we think the future is,' Reynolds said, adding, 'The reason that Zynga isn't ginormous on mobile yet is because the friction of social networking is still high on mobile.'"
AngryBirdsVille? CatPhysicsVille? CubeRunnerVille?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
The reason that Zynga isn't ginormous on mobile yet is because the friction of social networking is still high on mobile.
Or maybe because, even though mobile games tend to be mediocre in comparison to console titles, they're still light-years ahead of any Farmville crap.
Circumcision is child abuse.
This is such a scummy company. Yet they grossed a billion bucks. Other useless wastes of time like the Jersey Shore kiddos made like 20 million- so maybe there is something to peddling crap
First the University of Illinois scares everybody with an alleged shooter on campus and now Zynga one-ups them?
If stupidity is a goldmine, them what to do.
Well, I think this proves pretty definitively that yes, stupidity is a goldmine.
are crap.
They've had at least one mobile title (Farmville) out for a few months, and despite numerous updates, it's so buggy as to be unplayable. I challenge you to find another game on iTunes that has as many bad reviews. Whether you like Zynga games or think they're the worst thing ever, you have to admit that a game so poorly coded doesn't have much of a future.
If they want to succeed in the mobile market, they can't afford to be lazy when it comes to Android development. As it is, the Android version of Words With Friends is nothing but a shoddy port of the iPhone title. It's bloated, slow, has no real options, push notifications seldom work (if at all), chews through your battery life like it's a Sega GameGear even when running just the background service (God help you if you leave the actual interface running), and it doesn't even use the menu button properly (read; at all)...
If this is what they're bringing to the mobile market, no thank you.
"So after all this, you make my case for me. To end this stalemate, you must die..."
They have already released Words with Friends on iOS and Android, which allows cross-platform gameplay.
If you work at Zynga you're all going to have farmville, etc. cause let's face it some of them have got to have like farm lvl1000 or whatever by now, but if an employee has a low level at their games or has a custy little farm with are they actually wrong in not playing on facebook all day or would you be expected to have a good upstanding farm the size of Iowa?
It's like the mind going AWOL, it's there somewhere
You can get away with some pretty crap games on Facebook because, well, it is games on Facebook. Move on to mobiles (especially new ones) and there is more tough competition. Doesn't mean that they won't sell anything, there is a market for all kinds of stuff, but it may well mean they don't sell very much.
Zynga? Who the hell is that, some startup with good PR?
How is this relevant to 'news for nerds'? A startup with overenthusiastic PR says they're "aiming at mobile"... but no concrete plans or implementation?
Call me back when it's something worth giving a shit about.
Translation: we only know how to program in flash / action script and apple does not support it.
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Zynga Zynga...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVXlqmpE75U
Its on the 8th second of the vid. I always doubted his genius, but you got to hand it to him, he is a genius.
Literal translation of what he is blabbering: ...bla bla"
"we will crawl upon them in million to cleanse Lybia inch by inch, house by house, Zynga by Zynga
The lunatic is in my head
Sounds like a line of dialog from "Flash Gordon".
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I hope their mobile games allow you to compete without having to spend money.
"Okay guys, listen up. All of you start this round with pitch forks. Except for Dan over here. He paid $50 so he gets a rocket launcher. Have fun everyone!"
.. my will to play any Zynga games ever again.
Isn't this the company who's proud motto is "Do Evil?"
They don't seem to realize that the rest of the world who aren't Facebook-addicted 13-year-olds don't give a shit about their stupid distractions.
"Social games are about expressing myself in front of my friends and part of the value of investing in the play is the fact that I know my friends are going to see my farm and I'm going to help them and all my friends are going to be there." - Brian Reynolds, Zynga's Chief Game Designer
This man is out of touch with reality. I know people who play Farmville, Cafe World, Mafia Wars and the like and their friends lists are full of people they don't know by any other means except they also play these games. The only reason these total strangers are on their friends list is because they want to exploit them for more cows, crop circles or what ever you get in Farmville.
Social gaming is about expressing yourself to your friends as much as playing Halo is about basic training in the Army.
"the friction of social networking is still high on mobile" mean?
I've heard and been able to parse all the corporate (mis-)management bullshitspeak until this one.
And why should I care about it?
Slashdot is going crazy. The editors see the need to clarify obvious things, such as who was Alan Turing, but suddenly they post a piece about some obscure, facebook-specific crap and we're supposed to know about it?
Facebook and all that shit is conquering our internet, and we are doing nothing about it. it's just sad. This is worst than AOL.
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WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
I have a shiny Sony X10 Xperia touchphone, and I shudder to think how playing Farmville would even look or "feel" on this phone. It's one thing to have a 26" widescreen display and a mouse, it is a whole different world when you've got me... Fat Finger Freddy, trying to plow fields on a 5" touchscreen. Not to mention another challenge is, are they going to migrate every game into Java? Flash does not work on my phone and it not even an option to install (not that i'd want to, i'm perfectly happy without it on mobile).
Make no mistake, if they can get over the barriers to successful adoption on mobile, then they will truly get scores of people addicted to their phones like never before. Hell, people are addicted to their phones right now and that's just reading text back and forth.
I literally had to shut down every game linked to my profile on Facebook and block them, because it just chewed up way too much time in my day. Those damn games are simple and addictive!
Words with Friends on Android is a steaming heap of crap. Crashes constantly and since the past couple updates won't even load on many people's phones.
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