Older titles get the chop in social giant's restructure
Zynga is in the process of shutting down several of its games in a reshuffling process to intended to make the ailing social games publisher stable once again.
The company plans to pull the plug on 13 titles, starting with FishVille, which had 730,000 monthly users at the last count according to AppData, and Treasure Isle, which had 540,000 – both games will go offline on December 5th.
Users are being prompted with a “one-time, complimentary bonus package” to switch to other, more recent Zynga titles. The contents of these packages have not been specified.
Last week, hacktivist group Anonymous claimed that Zynga intends to layoff a further 800 staff this month, and has threatened to release keys to confidential files it claims contain the company’s games today (November 5th) if Zynga does not withdraw.
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You say Zynga are going to pull the plug on 13 games, and instead of telling us which, you reference a previous article which also doesn't list the games!
I come HERE for news, but yet again, feel that I'm out of the loop unless I go looking for Anonymous' postings.
In the story we've listed Fishville and Treasure Isle as the games being axed. Zynga has yet to reveal the other titles to be axed.
So what happens if the player does not want to change to a new game? Do they simply lose everything they've invested time in?
As far as I'm aware, yes you'll lose whatever you've invested in these games as they'll be taken offline.
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