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This is a link post Anonymous takes aim at Zynga
"The hacker group says layoffs at Zynga will lead to the "end of the US game market as we know it" as jobs get shipped overseas, and it vows to take action."

Doesn't seem like a huge leap from here to full-on cyberterrorism to me.
 (I helped save b3ta! pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:26, Reply)
This is a normal post They just seem like a bunch of twats to me
Have they done anything actually useful? I tend to ignore stories about them so they may well have done, just their marketing department is a bit shit.
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:29, Reply)
This is a normal post And Anonymous
aren't much cop either.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fronds are waving gently on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:30, Reply)
This is a normal post I see what you did there!

(I helped save b3ta! pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:34, Reply)
This is a normal post ha ha
Farmville can just get to fuck...
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Zynga are a right bunch of cunts
Corporately, I mean. I'm sure individual workers are lovely people stuck in shit jobs. The CEO was caught ordering people to shut up, don't be inventive, don't make new games, just clone other ones.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fronds are waving gently on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:38, Reply)
This is a normal post was it them that nicked crush the castle?
I loved that game.
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:39, Reply)
This is a normal post Nah, that's Angry Birds
Who are really just the latest and particularly succesful throw-and-knock-shit-down game purveyors, CtC was just another one.

Zynga do direct clones - here's a quicky:
www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/08/08/a-photo-retrospective-of-the-games-developers-claim-zynga-has-cloned/
 (I helped save b3ta! Fronds are waving gently on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:43, Reply)
This is a normal post Those were all the games I was thinking of
Assumed they did angry birds too, which is practically a whole new game compared to those Zynga copies.
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:48, Reply)
This is a normal post I actually know people working in low-level design roles in both those studios.
It's ok for "experience", but I think they want to be somewhere better.
 (I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:52, Reply)
This is a normal post don't make new games, just clone other ones.
Isn't that what EVERY game developer does?

Games industry is getting like hollywood now.
As long as everyone keeps going out and buying Call of Duty 12 and Fifa 2020, why should they bother spenidng $100million developing a new game that will probably bomb?
 (I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 14:21, Reply)
This is a normal post because COD and FIFA
are updates to existing games, owned by the people that designed them and are popular. Zynga merely stole the games outright, copied them, then used their massive marketing budget, obtained from stealing previous games, to be more popular than the original.
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 14:39, Reply)
This is a normal post Yep
There's taking the basic idea, or a certain gameplay aspect, but that's not enough "theft" for Zynga.

EA filed a lawsuit against them for stealing concepts and ideas from The Sim's Social for The Ville, pointing out that their character skin tones had the exact same RGB coordinates, which could only really have happened via direct copy.

More stuff here: www.joystiq.com/2012/08/03/highlights-from-eas-lawsuit-against-zynga/
 (I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Mon 29 Oct 2012, 16:28, Reply)
This is a normal post it's like superman stopping a train and killing all the passengers to save a puppy that walked on the tracks
thank goodness those smart business folk at anonymous are taking care of this difficult financial situation.

*edit - hold on, Zynga? they're the cnuts who push Farmville and all that shit on people, why the fuck do anonymous care about their workers?
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:30, Reply)
This is a normal post Who knows?
Maybe they hacked Zynga, found these documents that contained their outsourcing plans and just decided to do this as a stunt?
 (I helped save b3ta! pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:37, Reply)
This is a normal post I do hope they are going to do this for every single other company that outsources
both nationally and internationally.
Irrespective of whether the original staff are doing their job well or not
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Indeed
My local butcher has increased the number of sausages not sourced from local farmers.
 (I helped save b3ta! Brandy_Bumwinkle, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 14:08, Reply)
This is a normal post He could be up for the chop too.

(I helped save b3ta! Pig Bodine., Mon 29 Oct 2012, 14:24, Reply)
This is a normal post I had no idea
anime fans were so interested in the threat of globalisation.

EDIT: Oh, it involves computers and games and shit. I see.
 (BarryFromTheShitFarm Oh, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:31, Reply)
This is a normal post They should up their game.

(I helped save b3ta! Brandy_Bumwinkle, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 14:08, Reply)
This is a normal post A company that lost $50m is laying off staff
It's hardly worthy of a cyber attack, that could lead to more financial crippling to the company and lead to MORE job losses, is it?

These guys really get on my tits now.
 (I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 29 Oct 2012, 14:14, Reply)
This is a normal post They cyberattacked EFF for expressing their views on Anon...
wankers all.
 (PhosphorBurnedEyes Swastika Shop opening here soon, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 1:36, Reply)