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As a hardcore/indie gamer myself, I understand that a lot of hardcore gamers are turned away by Zynga. But I'm not Zynga's target audience, and that's okay. An
by Alex_r 14y ago
As a hardcore/indie gamer myself, I understand that a lot of hardcore gamers are turned away by Zynga.
But I'm not Zynga's target audience, and that's okay. And there's a lot of sympathy for your point about the "spaminess."
However, going from spammy/over-monetizing to evil has always seemed a tad dramatic to me.
- jlgreco 14y agoI think the leap from "spamminess" to "evil" is helped by those other two things he pointed out.
- krickle 14y agoThe games are designed to both get people addicted, and to get your friends involved by manipulating social gift reciprocity obligations. I think we'd have settled for "awful" up until the clawbacks, now we know the leadership at Zynga is sociopathic at best. Maybe not evil, but totally unscrupulous, totally unsympathetic.