Xbox Live Not a Big Enough Ville for Zynga

[viranimus]

Is it just me, or is this sort of like the people at a herpes support group looking out the window and shouting at the passers by "Hey, your not allowed to come hang out with us"

I seriously doubt that console gamers are crying themselves to sleep because they cannot access farmville on their consoles.

I think microsoft out of pure spite ought to add a flash enabled browser into the XBL dashboard which would allow users to access the ville games anyway even though Zynga feels so high and mighty to snub console gamers. But alas I have given up on that happening.

 

[Jamash]

So, it's nothing to do with the fact X-Box Live doesn't have an internet browser to run Zynga's "games", or that Microsoft won't allow the kind of credit card micro-transactions that Zynga use to make money off their customers, or that the constant spamming of messages to people on your friends list to visit your farm would probably be against the X-Box Live TOS and lead to lots of people filing complaints against and blocking communication with the people spamming them?

It's not that X-Box Live isn't big enough, it's that it's a closed platform that won't allow Zynga to sell virtual cows or spam the network with messages, so without those 2 key mechanics all Zynga have left is a "game", which is of no interest to them since they're in it to make money off people hand over fist, not provide entertainment.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

"Oh, noes!"
Seriously, they are not coming to XBLA and PSN because gamers already play actual games on there... Not single click boredom simulators.

 

[dropZero]

Doesn't bother me. I don't particularly care for the ville line of games, although I'm quite fond of Vampire Wars. But still, a game like that is best left on a web browser or smartphone.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

Oh no. Whatever shall we do? I was really hoping to grow my crops on an HDTV and milk my cows with the comfort of a controller...

... not.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Not that we'd even want it. We have... you know... ACTUAL games on our console.

 

[TheBlueRabbit]

Oh well. That's just one less place for me to have to block all the damn Farmville updates.

 

[Epslion.Bear]

OH NOES I CANT FARM/KILL/BUILD/FRONTER ON MY XBOX

WHAT CAN I DO?

Wait I can be spammed to death on facebook

crisis adverted

 

[Tiswas]

People who have a DS tend to be smarter than the ones using Zygna games.

 

[InfiniteJacuzzi]

Not exactly sure how an audience of 45 million is worth ignoring when your POS games would take 5 minutes to port, but I'm glad it was.

 

[Alpha Maeko]

Farmville Achievements?

LOL

 

[Baldr]

I would assume the market percentage of smartphones would be close to the market percentage that own a console. Except console publishing requires a high standard of quality of games to publish to vs smartphones.

 

[CezarIgnat]

Damn...I am so saddened...

 

[KeyMaster45]

This is somewhat off topic but does anyone else have the urge to play a Harvest Moon game any time there's an article about Zynga/Farmville?

 

[JoshGod]

How dare they depreive me of the wondrous joy that is farmville. I'm gunna go to the city and get the mafia to kill me on a farm on the frontier of the wilds. I'll stop now.

 

[ThisIsSnake]

"Xbox Live Not a Big Enough Ville for Zynga"

I read that as "Xbox Live not evil enough for Zynga" :S

 

[vxicepickxv]

I guess that's a nice way to say you know that we're on to your shit, and we won't put up with it.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Damn...I am so saddened...

I don't think your sarcasm is punching people in the face hard enough.