Showing posts with label digital goods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital goods. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Deconstructing Zynga: what's up in Social Gaming fraud


Talking to friends in a party I had to hold myself from becoming too smuggy-smug-smug. Yep, the lot of "I'm too good for Mafia Wars" geeks fell prey to the eggplant-growing rhythm of Farmville. Eggplants. My friends. I don’t even like eggplants, but still felt responsible in a way, though they’re only a drop in Zynga’s estimated 15M+ daily users (the numbers keep growing...). But things were only getting better for me that day.

“You know”, said one of the guys, “this social gaming stuff is really worth a lot of money. I know someone who made $100K off this thing”.

KACHING!!! Immediately he had my full attention. You don’t just MAKE $100K playing social games by the book, even if you break a finger playing Texas Hold’em. I had to know.