Feb 14, 2015

Zynga 2014 Forth Quarter Financial Results

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A few days ago, Zynga released the 2014 4th Quarter financial results. A slide show can be found here.  A good article to sum it all up can be found here. Basically Zynga want’s to be a mobile company and what that means for Facebook App games is unknown. With all the hassles Facebook is creating for the game, it’s scary to think what will happen to Mafia Wars. Perhaps they can make it mobile?

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8 comments:

  1. Does anyone else notice the inverse correlation between the huge growth in advertising revenue and speed f game play over the last six months? MW was always bad about throwing popups up every time you do something with a suggestion for a way to spend RP, or a limited time offer to buy them at the same discount as is normally available, but now they are marketing our personal data to give targeted advertising. Network TV is at an all time low because of excessive advertising, and many internet sites are dying for the same reason. I can just imagine the popup adds when trying to play MW or any other game on a smartphone...If you own stock in Zynga, this might be time to unload it!

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  2. They tried once. Remember Atlantic City?

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  3. Game has become more frustrating to get through than the enjoyment of playing it.

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  4. Yep, Alantic City was so bad that it stopped working after a short while. At least they gave me all the reward points I would have earned had I completed the entire city. That was back when Zynga at least made meager attempts at customer service, unlike now where nothing is done. Personally, I just wish the game would shut down at this point, as everyone has been expecting it to die for quite some time now, and most who play are just going through the motions.

    Zynga has changed the rules of the game so many times that it has arrived at the point where it's boring. The game was supposed to be about gaining power over other players (not earning high level numbers with no ability to fight & not about earning a lot of cash). In the real world if you have trillions of dollars of cash you could use it to purchase more powerful weapons, but not in this game. They want you to spend real money for it.

    Once they added the arena, they took the whole goal of the game away as fighting people no longer matters at all. Bullying lower level players was never supposed to be an objective, but being able to hold down players who were bullying and occasionally fighting other families was something most players liked to do. Not sure if Zynga added the arena to protect those who were being bullied, but by doing so they destroyed a major dynamic of the game, as fighting one another has become almost meaningless. What is the point of fighting someone if they can hide in the arena to use their stamina? I've been going through the motions for quite some time on this game, and it's become more of a bad habit than an enjoyable pleasure for me. Everyday I play the game I question why I'm still doing it. I guess I have OCD or something haha Then I realize the main reason I keep chugging along is to help my Mafia Wars family, but I'm at the point where that no longer matters.

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  5. Maybe Zynga should TRY REFRESHING. LOL

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  6. If they go completely mobile there going to lose a ton of players more then what they have already lost.If they can't even fix what they have now can you imagine what its like on mobile.

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  7. sorry but im fed up of ppl bitching about mafia wars if u don;t like it then block it and get a life other wise shut up .lol ppl said mafia wars was closing 3 years ago and look its still here i know its in other games but do you think zynga will block a money pumping blood vessel thats worth around $60 a Q or around $240 a year it dose not cost that mutch to update them as long as ppl surport mafia wars they will keep it . i know there are less new events well none.lol but old paste and copy events and only 1 new city a year but i don't give a hoot about all the stupid 7 day events that don't afect your account if u do them or not, mafia wars is about fighting and with all these new birthday bashes its fun again if you can be bothered to sit and play and take part in one of these fighting events, and i want to thank zynga for surporting these events long live mafia wars and long live mafia wars lootlady :)

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  8. I agree with the anonymous comments. I'm not really sure what chris actually said except that he apparently doesn't mind the messiness of the game right now.

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