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Eh. Zynga is social games at scale. The engineering talent isn't in the games part, it's in the scale part. Getting to that scale isn't any easy feat either. W
by lbrandy 16y ago
Eh. Zynga is social games at scale. The engineering talent isn't in the games part, it's in the scale part. Getting to that scale isn't any easy feat either.
What you've basically just said is that any idiot could clone facebook. Yes, they could. Except they still have everything to do.
- bad_user 16y agoWorld of Warcraft has 12 million subscribers. Any idiot can clone Facebook, getting users to use Facebook was the hard part. Scaling is vastly overrated. Yes it requires knowledge, but (a) you don't have to do it from the start (unless you're Blizzard and everything you do is an instant hit) and (b) users don't fucking care about your infrastructure that scales (that's not why they are playing your game).