You completely missed the point. He's not saying that Zynga's actions are moral or should be socially acceptable, just that it's easy to see their motivation. It's not hard to understand why they do what they do, no matter how reprehensible.
i got that. but i don't call that something that 'works'. my point is that making cash isn't the only condition that needs to be met for something to 'work'. i take issue with his use of 'it works'.
> my point is that making cash isn't the only condition that needs to be met for something to 'work'.
To make cash, you must make cash. This is a simple tautology. Insider trading and extortion work. Again, fact. Denying reality does not make it go away. We 'hate' on them because we have larger goals that are sabotaged by these things: a free market, a trusting society. If we are to succeed at our better goals, then we cannot do so by pretending things are other than what they are.
I probably hate Zynga more than you do, since they basically killed my dreams of entering the industry on my terms. But I don't let my hatred make me blind and stupid to the point where I no longer understand what it means for something to work.
I don't hate zynga, I just think they're irrelevant, they add no value, they move nothing forward, they are a wealth redistribution scheme. What they do, doesn't 'work' in my book, so I don't care.
so what's the point of your original post that 'Zynga is in fact pulling cash' that's a fact, but so what? why should I care if I don't like how they're doing it? is there something i should take away from the fact that they make cash?
> why should I care if I don't like how they're doing it?
I don't know. Why are you posting in this thread? I wasn't responding to you in my initial reply and I haven't a clue how you managed to feel personally spoken to from it.
Why are you even in a comment thread about a company you consider irrelevant?
It's a public board and I'm responding to a public comment. What I'm asking is why you or anyone care that they're making shit loads of money, why is that so impressive, esp if you hate them? I'm in the thread to challenge folks to think beyond cash so there are fewer zyngas in the world, because that affects the business environemnt and that affects me.
Nobody said it was impressive, and they care only because it came up in the conversation. If you bothered to read the comment thread, you would see that Macha said:
>I understand Zynga even less now."
So saraid216 explained their motivation, i.e. that they're able to make money doing things like this.
