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Friday, November 13, 2009
 
A PSA for Indie Developers:
Getting control of your own destiny is important.

Getting revenue and profitability is important.

But your soul and the well-being of your customers is far more important.

So don't take lessons from this schmoe, who brought the (alas, insanely popular) Mafia Wars and other games to Facebook, who admits to scamming customers in the name of bootstrapping his company.

Just ... Don't.

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My few encounters with Zynga have been less than pleasant, they definitely ooze a little. That said, I have a good friend who works there as an artist and he is a great guy.
# posted by Blogger Tim : November 13, 2009 12:23 PM
 
Having users download some shady toolbar is very wrong... I now look down upon Zynga.

I hope this gets more publicity, I'm putting it on DZone.
# posted by Anonymous CodeJustin : November 13, 2009 1:16 PM
 
I always farted in Zynga's general direction.
# posted by Blogger Diego / Kimari / IndigoStatic : November 13, 2009 1:19 PM
 
I'd like to say I was surprised, but if I did, I'd be lying.
# posted by Blogger Silas : November 13, 2009 2:13 PM
 
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