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While making such direct comparisons isn't completely accurate, nor fair, it gives us a snapshot at how quickly social network gaming is growing. Zynga was founded four years ago and already six of the 10 most popular apps on Facebook belong to it, and it has more than 210 million monthly active users.
The valuation for Zynga is so high because it is based on the growth of the virtual goods space, which by itself is at a whopping $1.6 billion this year. The social firm isn't the only one in the virtual goods game though: EA also has a toehold in that market, having acquired Playfish late last year.
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That's ridiculous, even though EA has been getting worse lately they make MUCH better quality games than a stupid little game on Facebook. How stupid are people these days?
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This is the power of simplicity and 500 million people. Nice.
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They're ALIENS i tell you ,ALIENS,they're planing an invasion.Farmville is a brain washing game,is all part of "The Plan" ,run for your lives .Darn it ...to much sugar and coffee again >_>
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And now, we have another reason Farmville permanently brain-damages ordinary people.
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Now they just need to leverage this popularity to put out games that aren't terrible and/or ripped off. A shame that they'll just do what keeps making money instead.
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