Bought The Farm: Mass Lay-Offs At Zynga
Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 04 2013 10:00 GMT in Farmville
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The bursting of the Facebook gaming bubble was as inevitable as post-feeding projectile vomit from my newborn daughter (which is why I’ve not been on the site for the last three weeks, but fear not, I shall not be turning my every sentence into a parenting reference as a result. For the record, obviously she’s beautiful and amazing though. And very vomity). Much as I’m glad to see the industry-wide madness about wait/spam/pay anti-games dying down, it gives me no pleasure to hear that the cost of this is so many jobs. Around 500 hundred people were yesterday put out of work as a result of one-time social gaming goliath/habitual copycat Zynga plunging into chaos.(more…)




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