While I'm no fan of Zynga for a great many reasons, the writeup I was reading from June [1] went into detail about their current woes stemming from irrational f

While I'm no fan of Zynga for a great many reasons, the writeup I was reading from June [1] went into detail about their current woes stemming from irrational former management, and was hopeful that the new exec and high-profile licenses would be sufficient to save them from falling off the edge. Obviously, that didn't work out in practice (and the complete lack of transparency about running out of money is horrific), but the firing of the CEO and some of his cohorts, and the former CEO suing the company he cofounded for firing him, are objective facts, independent of whether you believe the story of why he was fired or why this would have been different. Having worked for a bit as a contractor, and knowing how close to not having reliable funding for some of us the small contracting shop I worked for was at times, I'm less surprised by the lack of warning than I might otherwise be, though a place sufficiently large should definitely have been more...robust against that failure case. The whole thing leaves a horrendous taste in my mouth, because I liked some of what they did (I never found TWD appealing, for whatever reason), but after I found out how horrendous their working conditions were, I couldn't convince myself to buy any more of their work. And now I'd like to hope this will be a cautionary tale about trying to live on the knife edge of viability, but I suspect it will just go down as something where the founders take shallow lessons but not the substance behind them to heart. [1] - https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/netflix-telltale-stranger-things-deal-1202855424/ https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/netflix-telltale-st...