What has Zynga done to piss you off?

[TJSwoboda]

(csb) Last night, I posted to the forum on Zynga's website. I suggested that they purchase a competitor's mobile social chess app, to integrate its features into Chess With Friends. I can understand that Zynga wouldn't want their competition's products mentioned on their own site, but let's be honest, who's actually buying the non-ad Chess With Friends anyway? Today, I logged into the Zynga forum to find myself permabanned for "advertising spam."

There's probably no one else here who has been slighted by Zynga in the exact same way that I have, but what have the pay-to-win kings done to piss you off? If you're hacked off at Zynga for any reason, stop giving them your money. Don't buy the non-ad version of What's the Phrase. Don't buy coins when Hanging With Friends gives you R R R S S S T T T E E A. Most importantly, spread the word and encourage others to behave likewise.

I've written a letter to Zynga's COO declaring my war, but won't be able to send it until I'm back home from vacation (a week). (/csb)

TL;DR: Somebody's butthurt over something your brain can't comprehend.

 

[DriftwoodSVT]

What is Zynga?

 

[kevinatfms]

WTF is a Zynga?

 

[TJSwoboda]

Let me google that for you

Words With Friends? Hello, McFly(s)?

 

[DriftwoodSVT]

Oh, social networking games. No wonder I don't care.

 

[bdcardinal]

I used to be a pretty active Farmville and Mafia Wars player. Stopped playing all the games on there in January. It was taking up too much time and there were too many issues with the server crashing all the time. So glad I stopped playing, Zynga seems to love treating the players like crap.

 

[hoamskilet]

I had to look up what Zynga was, so to answer your question....Nothing

 

[WireEater]

Usually when I'm not happy with an App or software I uninstall it and just don't use it anymore. I'm not sure if you tried that approach yet?...

 

[TJSwoboda]

Usually when I'm not happy with an App or software I uninstall it and just don't use it anymore. I'm not sure if you tried that approach yet?...

Money this will take out of their pockets: $0. I'll still play games I've already paid for, as this provides them no further benefit. I'm advocating the cessation of in-app purchases from Zynga.

 

[TJSwoboda]

Oh, I should probably plug the chess app I was talking about, on the off-chance anyone here plays Chess With Friends:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haptic.chesstime&hl=en
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chess-time-multiplayer-game/id455602152?mt=8

It's called Chess Time. You can play correspondence chess with your friends with your smart phone, with ratings, game analysis, and the ability to send game notation to your email. Chess With Friends has none of these extra features.

 

[ford_racer]

Oh, social networking games. No wonder I don't care.

This.

 

[Instigator99]

No one cares. One could only hope that you get perma-banned on here too so we don't have to listen to your pointless complaining.


-Eric

 

[Torch10th]

You have too much time on your hands...

 

[u n v kenny]

I hate the idiot's playing poker!

 

[2KBlackGT]

Thread seems more like a spam thread than a complaint thread

 

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This is probably not going to work because I'm on the phone, but its the barbasol commercial

 

[Mjavant1985]

Wait,so people actually pay real money to buy coins in those games to get farther in a game that cannot be beaten...

"Why don't you give me half the money you were gonna give zynga, we'll go out back, ill kick you in the nuts, and we'll call it a day!"

 

[13COBRA]

Thread fail.

 

[Torch10th]

Wait,so people actually pay real money to buy coins in those games to get farther in a game that cannot be beaten...

"Why don't you give me half the money you were gonna give zynga, we'll go out back, ill kick you in the nuts, and we'll call it a day!"

It's a surprisingly high amount as well. the free to play model gaming is some of the most exploitative business practices I'm aware of.

It plays off of social-engineering and competition. The games are designed so that although you can get them for free, the game experience is incomplete unless you take part in micro transactions in order to continue or make the game experience better.

The companies work off of the "sucker born every minute" theory. Of which there are a lot of suckers. Zynga's first year as a public offering, they pulled in revenue of around 800 million just from Farmville alone. What product were they selling? Virtual currency so people could buy virtual crops...

 

[black92]

I'll admit, I thought this was a sex drug like Viagra or something... Learn something new everyday.