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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."
"and why iTunes gift cards and not the President, is the current incarnation of the anti-christ."
Had to sneak that little conservative tidbit in there, didn't we?
And why should we care about this fluff, anyway?
You clearly don't have children.
Actually, I do.
You will learn what a Bieber is, and why iTunes gift cards and not the President, is the current incarnation of the anti-christ. You will discover the joys of cleaning out a malware infested computer in your teenager's bedroom on a biweekly basis, to the point that you, in a fit of anger, spend a weekend building a vm image with a pxe server and restoration image so your solution to their pepetual inability to listen to you and then try to actively override any security features designed to keep them from screwing it up is "press f12 and wait an hour, and no bitching about your 'lost music', dumbass." And you will also learn why a random sampling of teenager's glowy rectangles show that Facebook is almost always on it... and thus, Zynga is as well.
Wow, I'm glad I don't have the kids you're thinking of. Mine are pre-teen to teenage, and all use Linux on their laptops, and never need them cleaned of viruses or other malware. They also have little or no use for Facebook or Bieber or iTunes; even the teenage girl prefers real relationships and does not partake in fake online ones. I mostly like their music (Apulanta, D.A.D., Green Day, Nightwish, Rammstein, Royal Republic, Sturm und Drang, Within Temptation, and so forth), which is on their phones as well as their laptops, and has been ripped onto our server at home also. In fact, we all get on fairly well together without major hangups.
Your parenting skills would appear to be dreadful. Have you considered seeking help?
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
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