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11/09/09
With the new advertising restrictions that the founder just announced (in regards to their new game Fishville but applying to all of their other games as well), they stand to lose over a third of their $250 million revenue per year.
Plus, they haven't been working towards acquisition, the company is clearly positioning itself for an IPO. Playfish, Playdom, and others were great targets for acquisition.
Mark Pincus has a right to be nervous about this. Playfish was Zynga's primary competitor, and by using some of the resources that EA has at its disposal, they can very quickly overtake a lot of the momentum that Zynga has. Now if Zynga suffers due to this deal, THEN they may well find themselves on the buyer's block and not going the IPO route. #playfish
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Whatever EA. I'm not resting until you make a Sim City for the network. #playfish
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I'm not sure about the amount of money they seem to be spending, but what seems ridiculous at the time has a way of working out in the end. Getting access to these 150 million "installs" is a tad nebulous at the moment, but if they can turn that into 10 million people that form the equation EA = fun Facebook game makers in their minds, then they win. #playfish
11/09/09
Seems like a smart purchase for EA. Sorta makes me wonder why Activision hasn't done anything in this area... #playfish
11/09/09
Just 18 months of ridiculous work in the hopes that somebody like EA (who showed some mild interest but never followed through) would buy the smallish company I was working for.
Working with them, and seeing/meeting their internal teams responsible for this type of entertainment really highlighted how many resources they were putting behind these efforts, though. They committed to this path a few years ago, and they've been plowing ahead since then trying to gobble up as much of the casual and community market as they can. #playfish
11/09/09
Despite what typical gamers may think, casual is something a lot people are looking at now. If you thought the Wii was disruptive to the gaming world, you haven't seen anything yet. #playfish
10/06/09
GODDAMN IT CUBA IS TOO HARD AND SLOW!
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09/12/09
This is why we have so many problems in our country. The representatives the people elect to office are not fit for duty. And it happens at all levels of government.
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Have you watched some of the speeches people give at these kinds of things? They're lucky the entire room wasn't fast asleep.
Even if someone is talking about "important things," they could be spouting total nonsense, or repeating everything the person before them just said, etc.
And there are WAY more distracting things than playing a little solitaire, which doesn't require much thought or concentration.
09/12/09
/rant
Sorry, these things really get me going.
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At least it beats getting caught with porn while a session is going on.
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Any person with a sane opinion.
09/12/09
Curse that man for playing the speaches of nuts who are allowed to work in the white house with zero oversight!
Curse him for running stories about Acorn employees agreeing to set up child sex-slave shops using tax dollars (multiple times)!
I supposed he should have looked the other way? The fact that he's associated with that story is a damned shame. The only reason he's linked to it is because most of the rest of the world didn't bother to cover it, for some insane reason.
Say what you will, a cancer of an organization will NOT be comprimsing the census. Those kids did the leg work, Beck screamed it from the rooftops. Another oppertunity for MAJOR corruption to take place in the federal government was stopped. Hopefully, Acorn won't get $8.5B of taxpayer money anymore either.
09/12/09
Glenn Beck is not a good man. The only reason he looked into Acorn was because it was connected with Obama and they wanted dirt. He never would've looked even close had Acorn been associated with John McCain.
How about him going from saying that america had terrible healthcare while having to go through it while working at another network, but as soon as he started at Fox, in just mere month, he started spouting that america has the best healthcare in the world?
Or calling Obama a racist?
The man has no journalistic integrity, how on earth can you take him seriously?
09/13/09
He is a disgrace to journalism and the American people.
09/12/09
"You see, the budget constitutes yaddayaddayadda..."
"THE SNIPER IS A SPY! STOP HEALING THE FUCKING SPY!"
*two weeks later*
"It was certainly bad judgement for me to not spycheck, even for just a few minutes, during the final round of Capture/Defend. I am embarrassed, and I apologize to each and every Heavy who got backstabbed across the map."
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