What is unfortunate from my perspective (as a former WoW/EQ player) is that "real" social games are now besting Zynga at its own game: turning away from generating content for gameplay's sake and instead (again in my opinion) turning these games into cash farms.
Morally? Well, what's morality in business if you're not using child labor, robbing a nation of its natural resources or engaging in otherwise clearly reprehensible activities? I don't make any claims about morality. It's just out-and-out dumb to blame companies for seeking money-makers for its investors (or parent company, for their investors).
However, what Zynga has done has shown exactly how stupid the game-playing public is, en masse, and how ripe they are for exploitation for just a little bit of time-wasting. One can almost hear the boardroom discussions:
"Look, developers, just take Zynga's model for 'game development,' scale it up for us and keep doing it until we have their numbers."
Irony or coincidence? I keep getting the two confused.
Morally? Well, what's morality in business if you're not using child labor, robbing a nation of its natural resources or engaging in otherwise clearly reprehensible activities? I don't make any claims about morality. It's just out-and-out dumb to blame companies for seeking money-makers for its investors (or parent company, for their investors).
However, what Zynga has done has shown exactly how stupid the game-playing public is, en masse, and how ripe they are for exploitation for just a little bit of time-wasting. One can almost hear the boardroom discussions:
"Look, developers, just take Zynga's model for 'game development,' scale it up for us and keep doing it until we have their numbers."
Irony or coincidence? I keep getting the two confused.
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