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Zynga

Social gamers don’t comparison shop

by justingibbs on January 23, 2010

Zynga’s strategy to copy and crush the competition could be more successful than it was for even Microsoft because social gamers don’t comparison shop. One way Zynga creates huge hits is by identifying popular games from other studios, creating a near replica, and then beating the original with a bigger marketing budget. The fact that [...]

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Facebook squashing the virality of social games?

by justingibbs on January 7, 2010

Daniel James, CEO of Three Rings, had an interesting post yesterday with his predictions for social gaming in 2010. I’ve seen James speak at a few conferences and know he can always be counted on for a unique opinion. A lot of what he talks about in this post is how important Facebook is to [...]

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