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Zynga is about wasting time in a fantasy farm. What is innovative about it? Flash games have existed since more than a decade.

• iamwil 16y ago
  Hollywood is about wasting time in a fantasy story. What is innovative about it? Plays have existed since more than a couple centuries. Zynga games have never really been played on a scale such as this before, leveraging social reciprocation as a way to entice the user to keep playing. I think if they're smart about it, they can find new game mechanics on this scale that wasn't available to games before.
• patio11 16y ago
  Zynga successfully makes Flash games played by a) women b) over the age of 40 who c) use them with their friends in d) a social context to e) supplement existing social grooming rituals while f) being successfully, aggressively monetized by g) a well-oiled metrics machine with h) offline components.
  • david927 16y ago
    I think you're just easily impressed, Patrick. :) My point stands: their products decrease productivity, not increase it. That it's successful is great but it's not "innovative" in the stronger sense we're talking about here.
• zaidf 16y ago
  What's so innovative about the Internet? Means of communication have existed for many, many decades.