Zynga founder "near tears" over company

[ultimatebob]

I guess that they are running out of other social games to rip off at this point. Maybe they should buy up some indie game developers and steal their ideas instead.

 

[God Mode]

I cried when my last peanut M&M fell out of the bag and landed in a puddle of garbage water on the sidewalk.

 

[jagec]

You guys realize how many developers make Chess games..etc. I don't see how putting a spin on it and changing the name is stealing. We see it everyday in the mainstream games

Part of the reason why so many developers make chess games is that it's a game that has been around for centuries and has no IP protection. That makes it a particularly poor example to use in defending Zynga's disregard of other peoples' IP.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Fucking whaaaaa...

 

[jagec]

lol did you read the reviews on the game? they are pretty funny.

when I was shopping for a new board game, my decision came down to two: Words with Friends and Scrabble. I came to the conclusion that both games are THE EXACT SAME CONCEPT, but the one deciding factor was my mistaken assumption that Words with Friends would actually come with friends.

:awe:

 

[Doppel]

You guys realize how many developers make Chess games..etc. I don't see how putting a spin on it and changing the name is stealing. We see it everyday in the mainstream games

Whoever invented Chess died a long time ago and doesn't need royalties.

 

[MisterJackson]

My gf tried to get me to play words with friends when she tried it a few months back. I told her I'd never played it and never will, simply because they stole Scrabble and didn't bother to give them their due.

 

[Triumph]

i never understood it, as computing power has increased exponentially, games themselves have followed the reverse trend. yet again, Star Trek TNG mimics real life, all of these people are addicted to the endorphins released from "winning" a stupidly simple little game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is12anYx2Qs

Everything I know about life, I learned from TNG.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I cried when my last peanut M&M fell out of the bag and landed in a puddle of garbage water on the sidewalk.

What color?

 

[lxskllr]

i never understood it, as computing power has increased exponentially, games themselves have followed the reverse trend. yet again, Star Trek TNG mimics real life, all of these people are addicted to the endorphins released from "winning" a stupidly simple little game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is12anYx2Qs

Everything I know about life, I learned from TNG.

There's a couple dumb little games I like playing. It isn't so much to "win", as it is just fiddling around with my fingers. It passes time when I'm bored, and I don't want to invest in a real game. I don't get the huge popularity of them though. There's nothing to some of those social network games.

 

[God Mode]

What color?

Why does the color matter? Someone died. Are you some kind of supremacist?

 

[clamum]

Oh noes!

That pic someone posted of the stock tanking over the past year is hilarious. Fuck Zynga.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Why does the color matter? Someone died. Are you some kind of supremacist?

You would have to pay me to not mutilate and dispose of the yellow ones.

(Answer: Absolutely. Red or dead.)

 

[HeXen]

Part of the reason why so many developers make chess games is that it's a game that has been around for centuries and has no IP protection. That makes it a particularly poor example to use in defending Zynga's disregard of other peoples' IP.

I was also linking that to all the other mainstream games that have the same game mechanics, just reskinned. like I said, we see it all the time from many, many developers. Zynga just follows the same trends. Like SF2, though it was based on many others before it, how many other fighting games literally reskinned and retitled it or put a slight spin on it. too many, yet we sit here and bash Zynga like their the only ones.

 

[gevorg]

The real question is how many champagne bottles were opened at the EA headquarters in the last 6 months? :whiste:

 

[Pray To Jesus]

the guy is a self-admitted thief who stole game ideas and mechanics after they were completely implemented by other people, and just reskinned them. he has said deragatory things about his user base multiple times. he will do anything to make a buck.

im all for watching ZNGA dive to 0$. :awe:

pretty much all major companies does this

 

[Newbian]

Part of the reason why so many developers make chess games is that it's a game that has been around for centuries and has no IP protection. That makes it a particularly poor example to use in defending Zynga's disregard of other peoples' IP.

The problem is a lot of the games are clones of clones of clones.

You have mostly city / home builder style games and there are a ton of them everywhere and granted they copy a lot of it from others it's hard to say who would win against those when all other game companies have something similar.

 

[BladeVenom]

You can't copyright game rules.

 

[adlep]

the guy is a dirtbag. i wish he'll go broke.

 

[Craig234]

If an idea for a website were presented to a company like Zynga as something to buy, is there a way to protect it from them just liking and taking it when they hear it?

Not sure what sort of legal NDA type form would protect that or if it'd be effective if someone violated it.

 

[OverVolt]

Doesn't look good.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/znga/interactive-chart?timeframe=5d&charttype=line

All because investors can't value the company properly doesn't mean its a bad company. The CEO was believing the hype and now he is crying, literally, lol. When whose bread I eat his song I sing goes horrendously wrong. In this case the song and dance of the investors since that is where the money came in from in reality, not from revenue. Bet he doesn't know what to think now L-O-L.

 

[sygyzy]

What's interesting about Zynga is how hated it is (rightfully so). It makes casual games that most people like, but even the people who play them (say Words With Friends), still hate the company. Compare this to Rovio and people think it's an amazing company. I think that's what ultimately is going to end Zynga.

 

[SP33Demon]

He looks... like the type of male who would cry.

 

[Imp]

So... do you call a tech-stock bubble/crash during or well after it happens?

 

[TehMac]

yea, it's always great watching companies struggle, especially when the rest of the economy is doing so fantastic.

They're selling a product like anyone else, and they did it better than anyone else, original ideas or not. The fact that some people in this thread don't get that leads me to question if anyone actually works in a field remotely related to that sector.