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Zynga has announced that three of the six planned game releases for the end of 2013 will no longer be continuing development. This follows on from staff layoffs, earnings and a heavy hitting lawsuit from EA that are collectively piling on the pressure for a company that looks like it has tough times ahead of it.
The games that will no longer come to be include: CityVille 2, The Friend Game and Party Place. This does however mean for now, that Bubble Safari Ocean, CoasterVille and Ayakashi will continue being developed.
As Eurogamer points out, Zynga has been bleeding cash for the last year and a half, spilling almost a billion dollars worth all over the floor. Still its fortunes have improved recently, but that seems likely to be down to the closing of some of its many studios. Zynga was certainly a company that expanded fast and contracted just as quickly.
KitGuru Says: Considering Zynga's whole game making platform was, “distract them long enough to pay money for this button clicker of a game,” I can't say I'm hugely surprised it's fairing poorly as the quality amps up in the social networking games market. Any of you guys still have a digital farm you tend vigorously?
I have mixed feelings about Zinga I would like to say if they go they would not be missed but at the same time I resisted their games on FB for along time. But I started playing FV2 because of everyone else in my house did & it gave a common conversation topic to talk about. I find that even though they really want you to click those get it done fast buttons to get ahead quicker I do not do that everything I have done in FV2 has been through the slower route & you know what I am a fair ways ahead of the other people in my list & some of those use the fast way to get things done. I would assume Zinga hates people like me that just go on & play but until they make it not an option & try to make you spend money that is the way we play in our house hold. But if they take that option away & try to force everyone to use real money then our house hold will stop playing Zinga games. Lets face it these silly little games that are on FB are not really worth spending hard earned cash on. Now if they want my money they need to step up their game alot & put out something that is worth the money to make me want to push those spend money buttons. In other games such as GW2(guildwars 2) I spent the money to get them because games like that are well thought out & alot of work actually went into making them. Don’t get me wrong I am sure Zinga puts a bit of effort into their games but not enough so that I would spend real money on them. I am just glad that I only sometimes play the one game from them & not 4 or 5 because that would take up way to much of my time from what I consider real games & a real life. At this point I do not see Zinga growing any farther if they keep putting out these simple little games that are designed for one thing & that is to get you to click the spend money button, maybe it is time for them to move on & try to make a real game & sell it in the open market then maybe if it is really good I might actually want to spend money to play it on my system.