Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others 377
Dr Herbert West writes "Executing the cost-reduction plan CEO Mark Pincus announced in November, Zynga has shut down, pulled from the app stores, or stopped accepting new players to more than 10 games such as PetVille, Mafia Wars 2, FishVille, Vampire Wars, Treasure Isle, Indiana Jones Adventure World, Mafia Wars Shakedown, Forestville, Montopia, Mojitomo, and Word Scramble Challenge. Comments from gamers on the shutdown notices included things like 'my daughter is heartbroken' and 'Please don't remove petville. I been playing for 4 yrs. and I'M going to miss my pet Jaime.why do you want cause depression for me and others. Why do you want to kill my pet?' For players that have invested a lot of microtransactions and/or time, this comes as a heavy blow."
Firms have lifetimes (Score:2, Informative)
I suppose that all the games use the same base code, so releasing is for some games will not be possible. I also assume that the games are not paying for the server load of customer service. So I am not sure what an be done. It is like when a show is cancelled,. It is sometimes sad, but really there are other things we can do.
Re:And nothing of value was lost (Score:5, Informative)
Which unfortunately, only geeks listen to.
Everyone else thinks "bla bla bla, I just wanna buy my iShiny!"
Re:And nothing of value was lost (Score:5, Informative)
Re:And nothing of value was lost (Score:4, Informative)
They pretty much implmented the first very wide reaching DRM system.