Are Facebook games like Farmville and Mafia Wars a Scam?
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"Facebook games like Farmville and Mafia Wars carry a rep for being diabolically addictive, but who knew they were just downright diabolical? Apparently, the productivity-whacking timewasters were birthed in a hive of scam and villainy. Straight from the horse’s mouth:
“I knew that I wanted to control my destiny, so I knew I needed revenues, right, f***ing, now. Like I needed revenues now. I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away," said Zynga CEO Mark Pincus. "I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I don’t know, I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it.”
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Personal experience playing Mafia Wars
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What are indeed scams are the special offers to get special points etc that are listed by these companies, especially Zynga. These listings are scams to various degrees, sometimes serious ones.
But, you don't have to look at or click on those offers to play the games. The games themselves are not scams.
Also, most of the companies designing games are not as unscrupulous as Zynga. I recommend Farm Town instead of Zynga's FarmVille and Restaurant City instead of Zynga's Cafe World game if you are worried about scams. However, Zynga has been using its ill-gotten profits to hire programmers to keep improving their games.
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However, I find their reliance on marketing lead generation for revenue to be irresponsible at best, and (as shown by the Consumerist clip) completely unethical at worst.
I blocked all my games a few days ago because I felt too addicted to them, but the news being posted here about Zynga's business practices gives me another reason not to support them.
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M$So play the games, just be wary of using a credit card to buy the extras :).
(Even after being taken advantage of, I still play the games as they're quite fun imo)
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yes sir. i do concur.
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