Xbox Live Not a Big Enough Ville for Zynga

[Dexiro]

Farmville still ain't got shit on Venetian Blinds, as far as I'm concerned, so I can't pretend like I'm outraged by this news. In fact, I'm glad to see that Zynga has no interest in making games for my gaming systems, because the news doesn't affect me whatsoever.

It is interesting to note, though, that Zynga are not making games for the Xbox or Ps3 purely because they don't have a 'big enough' audience. Forget making games, Zynga makes money.

Their games are designed to leech as much money out of people as possible. They're addictive, have free advertising and taunt people with the prospect of buying in-game stuff with micro-transactions. Not to mention people find it harder to keep track of micro-transactions by nature, and before they know it have wasted $100.

All of this and their games have pretty much no substance, not one speck of fun.

 

[Fappy]

90% of his friends have smart phones? Really? Either I am really behind the times or he's good at making up statistics.

 

[alfawx]

My god, my weekend is ruined. Never will I be able to click my way through the text version of robbing a bank on my 360. I am truly disappointed, Zynga. Oh no.

 

[RA92]

Shit! That was one company who could port games to the consoles and I wouldn't have thrown a hissy fit!

C'mon console gamers! Change Zynga's mind!

Share the shame!

 

[D Moness]

90% of his friends have smart phones? Really? Either I am really behind the times or he's good at making up statistics.

80% of statistics are made up on the spot.

 

[TilMorrow]

If you had an xbox why the fuck would you even be playing whatever shitty games they spew out ?

I Agree with this. And since when is Zynga's games triple-A? Teh fuck as I would say.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

And on this day not a shit was given.

I'm sure all the people that play an Xbox are mortified by this decision. /sarcasm

 

[Fappy]

90% of his friends have smart phones? Really? Either I am really behind the times or he's good at making up statistics.

80% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Lol, you so clever XP

 

[Krat Arona]

They're probably also aware that most people that own one of the "Big Three" consoles generally aren't the target demographic of their genre of games. Ok, well maybe part of the Wii's buying group, but not most of Microsoft or Sony's players.

 

[Kross]

If you had an xbox why the fuck would you even be playing whatever shitty games they spew out ?

I Agree with this. And since when is Zynga's games triple-A? Teh fuck as I would say.

He said he came from the triple-A space, because he was the lead designer on Civ 2 and Alpha Centauri, along with several other very solid strategy games.

Also, I imagine being a successful game developer leads to many friends with smartphones.

 

[drisky]

90% of his friends have smart phones? Really? Either I am really behind the times or he's good at making up statistics.

He's making it up, just trying to make a point of how smart phones are more than x-boxs (at least almost his friends), still it seems like quite an overestimate.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Like hell any of their "games" are any good. I'm glad they aren't spreading their taint where it wouldn't be so much as glanced upon.

 

[Bobzer77]

"Zynga says the audience there is just too small."

Surely they meant to say that the audience is just too smart.

We are still talking about Xbox Live right?

 

[Big Bruce]

Oh no! My friends won't be able to send me hay bales through Xbox Live? A sad day for Xbox users indeed.

 

[TilMorrow]

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He said he came from the triple-A space, because he was the lead designer on Civ 2 and Alpha Centauri, along with several other very solid strategy games.

Also, I imagine being a successful game developer leads to many friends with smartphones.

Well that makes it clear why he is so obsessed with making games featuring the building up of something but I don't get why he wants them to be so simple. I'd take a free Civ type game any day over farmville. I also think it relates to why he wants a large audience for his games. I'll give you a hint. It starts with M and ends with a y and has a one in the middle.

 

[Faladorian]

The reason they need a huge potential-customer pool is because only a fraction of people are primal enough to want to play their horrible games, nevermind pay for them.

 

[noble cookie]

Aww, but i really wanted Farmville on my 360...

/sarcasm

 

[Hogbinladen]

Makes sense, once you remove the people that won't play their games on Xbox Live, you've got about five people. Five is pretty damn small.

 

[Whytewulf]

I don't even see how they are games.. more like annoyances and time wasters.. Ya, people like them, to each their own.. but.. ugh..

 

[mjc0961]

Good. As a member of Xbox Live, I can safely say that I don't want their shovelware anywhere near my 360. The only reason they need a huge userbase of over 500 million is because their games suck. But if you get even 1% of those people to play your ass games, that's still 5 million people and you can act like you're super awesome for making a game that many people play while ignoring that a vast majority of people aren't touching your trash.