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Honestly, when you first heard of "Bang With Friends," would you have been surprised if it was yet another quality Zynga production? Even if you wouldn't have

Honestly, when you first heard of "Bang With Friends," would you have been surprised if it was yet another quality Zynga production? Even if you wouldn't have - "Bang With Friends" instantly connects with "Words With Friends" in my mind. This is a really unpopular and unexpected thing to say, but for once I don't think Zynga is in the wrong.

teawrecks 13y ago
I didn't make the connection right away. I just think that if Zynga is in the right, then whoever owns Scrabble is too. Coming up with products that borrow from existing IP is their thing. Naturally, they are going to try to keep other mobile developers from doing the same.
- benjamincburns 13y ago
  It's too awkward not to be a ripoff. I could see how "Bang Your Friends" would be coincidental, but "Bang With Friends" sounds like a turn of phrase an older person would use while awkwardly trying to appear "with it" to someone younger. That is, you don't "bang with [person]" - you just plain "bang [person]." Unless maybe you're talking about group sex - "I banged [person] with [person]." Though that's a different product entirely...
TeMPOraL 13y ago
I didn't make the connection at all until today. I think it's because "Words" is a noun, and "Bang" is a verb. "[noun] With Friends" gets represented as a completely different thing in my mind than "[verb] With Friends" (i.e. the latter is an action, the former is language nonsense).
- TylerE 13y ago
  The pattern doesn't actually hold: Matching With Friends and Hanging With Friends are both Zynga titles.
  - TeMPOraL 13y ago
    You're right. I didn't know about that two.
auctiontheory 13y ago
I believe you, but I didn't make the connection until today. To me, "with friends" seems like a common part of speech.
freehunter 13y ago
I made the connection: it's a parody, a clever(?) play on words riding off an existing franchise. I never once would have guessed it was made by the same people, because game developers tend not to make sex apps. I've never heard of it happening before. This is much in the same way I never once thought that Pirates XXX was in any way related to the Disney series Pirates of the Caribbean, even though the guys who made Pirates XXX really want you to draw that connection. A rational person would realize that Zynga, much like Disney, is not in the business of facilitating promiscuous sex.

teawrecks 13y ago

I didn't make the connection right away. I just think that if Zynga is in the right, then whoever owns Scrabble is too. Coming up with products that borrow from existing IP is their thing. Naturally, they are going to try to keep other mobile developers from doing the same.

benjamincburns 13y ago
It's too awkward not to be a ripoff. I could see how "Bang Your Friends" would be coincidental, but "Bang With Friends" sounds like a turn of phrase an older person would use while awkwardly trying to appear "with it" to someone younger. That is, you don't "bang with [person]" - you just plain "bang [person]." Unless maybe you're talking about group sex - "I banged [person] with [person]." Though that's a different product entirely...

TeMPOraL 13y ago

I didn't make the connection at all until today. I think it's because "Words" is a noun, and "Bang" is a verb. "[noun] With Friends" gets represented as a completely different thing in my mind than "[verb] With Friends" (i.e. the latter is an action, the former is language nonsense).

TylerE 13y ago
The pattern doesn't actually hold: Matching With Friends and Hanging With Friends are both Zynga titles.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago
  You're right. I didn't know about that two.

auctiontheory 13y ago

I believe you, but I didn't make the connection until today. To me, "with friends" seems like a common part of speech.

freehunter 13y ago

I made the connection: it's a parody, a clever(?) play on words riding off an existing franchise. I never once would have guessed it was made by the same people, because game developers tend not to make sex apps. I've never heard of it happening before. This is much in the same way I never once thought that Pirates XXX was in any way related to the Disney series Pirates of the Caribbean, even though the guys who made Pirates XXX really want you to draw that connection. A rational person would realize that Zynga, much like Disney, is not in the business of facilitating promiscuous sex.