Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 1, 2013 @07:44AM from the to-virtually-dissect-and-eat-it dept.

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."

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Re:And nothing of value was lost by GameboyRMH · 2013-01-01 08:18 · Score: 4, Informative

Which unfortunately, only geeks listen to.
Everyone else thinks "bla bla bla, I just wanna buy my iShiny!"

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Re:And nothing of value was lost by desdinova+216 · 2013-01-01 09:48 · Score: 4, Informative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCsoft#Richard_Garriott_termination for this alone I'd consider adding NCSoft to the list.
Re:And nothing of value was lost by spire3661 · 2013-01-01 11:21 · Score: 3, Informative

Wow. Nintendo is the fucking Prime Evil of gaming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10NES
They pretty much implmented the first very wide reaching DRM system.

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