[casual_games] Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For WarAgainst Facebook With Zynga Live

[Lennard Feddersen]

As a combat strategy it's better than just doing whatever Facebook tells 
them to - at least in this case FB stands to potentially lose a litte.  
Another site, in a browser, is just a click away and then they are 
starting to build something of value for themselves.


On 11/05/2010 1:09 AM, Johnson, Joel wrote:

>

> But it does beg the question, that if Zynga were to move out onto 

> their own site, would the traffic still be as high?

>

> I only ask this because it seems to me that the phenomenal number of 

> users they have is because people on Facebook could choose to play 

> with one another, many times reminded due to the constant 

> "wall-posts-from-games", WHILE they were catching up with their friends.

>

> I wonder if the same number of people might be willing to take the 

> effort to go to another site, just to play games...

>

> *From:* casual_games-bounces at igda.org 

> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Tom Park

> *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 11:41 PM

> *To:* IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List

> *Subject:* Re: [casual_games] Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For 

> WarAgainst Facebook With Zynga Live

>

> What Arrington wrote was: "But a much bigger concern now is Facebook's 

> force feeding of Facebook Credits as the only payment platform that 

> Zynga and others can use."

>

> So he's saying the "force feeding" is specific to "Zynga and others".

>

> I'm sure most of the people who can answer that question definitively 

> are under NDA, but it is not being forced on all developers, at least 

> not yet.

>

> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:58 AM, James C. Smith <james at reflexive.net 

> <mailto:james at reflexive.net>> wrote:

>

> Are these facts accurate? Maybe I have been living under a rock but I 

> and missed the news about Facebook Credits being forced as the only 

> payment options.  Last I heard, Facebook was offering a Facebook 

> credits system with a 30% fee but it was an option and developers were 

> free to use it while also using Offerpal and other payment solutions.  

> Has this changed?

>

>

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