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Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others
Dr Herbert West writes "Executing the cost-reduction plan CEO Mark Pincus announced in November, Zynga has shut down, pulled from the app stores, or stopped accepting new players to more than 10 games such as PetVille, Mafia Wars 2, FishVille, Vampire Wars, Treasure Isle, Indiana Jones Adventure World, Mafia Wars Shakedown, Forestville, Montopia, Mojitomo, and Word Scramble Challenge. Comments from gamers on the shutdown notices included things like 'my daughter is heartbroken' and 'Please don't remove petville. I been playing for 4 yrs. and I'M going to miss my pet Jaime.why do you want cause depression for me and others. Why do you want to kill my pet?' For players that have invested a lot of microtransactions and/or time, this comes as a heavy blow."
This is what happens when you let people who don't really know video games run a video game company.
Seriously, where is the "game" in Farmville? I certainly didn't see any.
First they came for my pet and I said nothing
Then they came for my fish and I still said nothing
etc
Just wait for the delicious tears when someday WoW shuts down
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
It's just gone to that great backup tape in the clouds. One day, if you're very very good, you'll go there too and you can play with your pet again.
I would tell my son that he's a faggot for being so needy for attention, like a little girl is, and then drive the point home by bragging about how my generation jumped bikes at construction sites and played sports instead of being big sissies like guys are now.
Daughters are much more simple - You tell 'em that if they get knocked up, the baby is being aborted or else they and their baby are both given up for adoption and/or kicked out on the street. No ifs, ands, or buts.
The problem with your approach is that you're being too soft - You're setting yourself up to let kids get away wtih all that and walk all over you. That is a perfect example of today's impotent parenting, lacking discipline. You lay down the ground rules, and the second they fuck up, disable their access to the internet for a week, and smack 'em in the mouth with a rolled-up newspaper if they start givin' you any lip. You're the one in charge, so take charge. If they need the internet for anything like homework, then you install an ultra-repressive linux install with permissions for only Firefox and LibreOffice. Generate the kids' access keys for the router on a day-to-day basis to ensure compliance. If they start whining about Facebook and Farmville, kick them outdoors on their bikes for a few hours. Sheesh, what is wrong with parents nowadays?
-- Ethanol-fueled
Personally, I think the logical conclusion to Pincus's master plan is eVille, where you have to make as much money as possible from your game characters' on-line activities.
Luckily, some of the smartest guys on the Internet saw it coming, hence Google's well-known motto, "Don't play eVille."
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
Also, why the fuck do unordered lists on /. not get bullets?
They were removed as a cost-saving measure some time ago.
Wait, I know Obama is sometimes accused of not being lefty enough by progressives, but saying he's not the anti-christ makes you conservative now? I can't keep up!
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Being almost 70 is no excuse for a lack of paragraphs :)
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Good question.
I keep mine safe in the walled garden of 4chan.
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