Incline Massive Incline: "The News Isn’t Good for Zynga, Maker of FarmVille"

[Angelo85]

How are the mighty fallen!

 

[Jashiin]

Only Richard "Lord Yardsale" Garriott's partnership can save them now!

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Dear fucking lord

 

[Curious_Tongue]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-08-08-john-schappert-resigns-from-zynga

 

[Pablosdog]

Because bon bon mother want's to fence up her yard so her air wasters can clog up her arteries.

 

[Morkar Left]

How are the mighty fallen!

Well, his juice is out. It's like expecting from a 50 years old sports athlet that he can bring the same performance he did in his twenties. Lord British had his time. Maybe he should write a book about his life or something. Would be more interesting.

 

[DraQ]

"Rapidly changing landscape that is moving" is called a landslide, by the way, and is rarely healthy for everyone involved.

Good news indeed. I still hope for a new video-game industry crash, only this way the suits will go to greener pastures

Or under them.

 

[Infinitron]

http://allthingsd.com/20120830/zynga-loses-two-more-top-level-gaming-employees/?mod=atdtweet

 

[Micmu]

FUCK YEAH!!!
I HOPE THEY GET THEIR ASSES LIQUIDATED SOON (ALSO ASSETS)

“At the end of the day, though, virtual goods might not be a viable business strategy. People eventually stop spending money in virtual goods and want to spend that money on real goods.”

No fucking kidding, mr. Distinguished Successful Businessman Guy. Even retards have their limits and cannot be squeezed indefinitely, if you're not producing and selling actual products.

 

[deuxhero]

Do they even have any noticeable assets beyond the IPs (which are worthless if they tank)?

 

[DraQ]

Do they even have any noticeable assets beyond the IPs (which are worthless if they tank)?

Massive counter-intelligence network.















C WUT I DID THAR?

 

[Phelot]

Not that I play these games, but why exactly is this so great? It won't effect the games we want in anyway. It's not as if all the people that play Facebook games will suddenly begin to demand for hardcore cRPGs nor does it mean Zynga will switch to making turn based RPGs or something.

 

[Angthoron]

It may mean that other companies will think twice before going into social gaming as heavily as they're trying to right now.

 

[Mother Russia]

Guys, don't get all excited. They could easily make some new changes and/or undo older changes to cause customers to return enmasse.

They could put out a super popular new game that just blows everyone away

Most importantly, Zynga's owner/founder has probably made hundreds of millions already. So what if the company falls flat? He has made all the money he and his descendats could ever need.

 

[Angthoron]

http://articles.marketwatch.com/201...creative-officer-mike-verdu-zynga-dani-dudeck

Are Zynga’s lights ready to be turned off?

Sena, who has a $2-a-share price target and underweight, or sell, rating on Zynga’s stock, said there are many confusing signs coming from the company. He cited statistics from research firm AppData showing that while Zynga’s monthly average users rose in the last quarter by about 5%, to 268 million, those numbers are essentially flat from a year ago.

 

[DraQ]

Most importantly, Zynga's owner/founder has probably made hundreds of millions already. So what if the company falls flat? He has made all the money he and his descendats could ever need.

If this is going to keep them away from gaming industry, then it's only marginally worse than them dying horribly in a fire with all their accursed progeny, although I'm pretty sure that not being petty is not a concept that can be grasped by a mudslim so I don't know why am I even writing this.

 

[Infinitron]

Another one bites the dust http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-09-11-zyngas-cmo-resigns

 

[Micmu]

Do not abandon ye hope!
Lord British's "Ultimate Collector" is gonna save them.

 

[Jaesun]

Justin Maxwell ‏@303
Zynga just laid off 100+ employees (incl. my friends) in its Austin office during the Apple Event. Gave them 2 hours to vacate. RT please.
Retweeted by Eurogamer.net

 

[taxalot]

They're just going to form another studio. It's not Zynga that needs to die : something must happen so that they do not ever fucking code a game ever again ; EA and Ubi are both on the track of replacing them anyway. The only solutions I see are deeply illegal though. Accidents would be convenient.

 

[deuxhero]

Looks like Zynga stock is now worth less their total assets.
http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/11/zynga-worth-absolutely-nothing-analyst/

J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth, as reported by the LA Times, estimates that Zynga’s total cash on hand, owned securities, and property are worth $2.46 per share.

At time of writing, Zynga stock is worth $2.35 which means investors consider stock in the company to be worth even less than its actual material wealth; it has no value whatsoever to traders.

Zynga’s stock dropped sharply at the end of last week after it lowered its forecasts; analysts don’t expect any improvement, with Sterne Agee’s Arvind Bhatia predicting “significant” layoffs over the next few months

 

[Azalin]

Justin Maxwell ‏@303
Zynga just laid off 100+ employees (incl. my friends) in its Austin office during the Apple Event. Gave them 2 hours to vacate. RT please.
Retweeted by Eurogamer.net

Did they do it during the Apple event hoping the news would be buried under the 1000+ ifag headlines all over the internetz?
If so this company needs to die as fast as possible

 

[tuluse]

Not that I play these games, but why exactly is this so great? It won't effect the games we want in anyway. It's not as if all the people that play Facebook games will suddenly begin to demand for hardcore cRPGs nor does it mean Zynga will switch to making turn based RPGs or something.

When Farmville can be a billion dollar a year game, guess what every publisher is going to try and make instead of good games?

 

[Morgoth]

http://www.develop-online.net/news/42317/Bigpoint-cuts-120-jobs

Yes. They all deserve to fucking die.

 

[DalekFlay]

Making games anyone else can mimic in a day and spending ungodly amounts of money... how was this plan not successful?

 

[Jaesun]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-apples-press-conference-earlier-today-report

Five per cent of the full-time workforce laid off, 13 games shuttered, Boston studio closed, UK and Japan may follow.