Comments on: PetVille Ends Cross-Promotion of Zynga Poker – Is Synchronous Game Play Dead?

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The Early Social Game Winners and Losers After Facebook’s Platform Changes — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:09:06 +0000

[...] bag: FarmVille is still down 2 million DAU from its December peak of 28.7 million, but Zynga Poker (which we previously thought might be losing focus with the rise of sim games) seems to be chugging along (its synchronous play, scale, and allowance of in-game friends made it [...]

By: Carmen Tan

Carmen Tan — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:30:15 +0000

Great article! I’ve always thought that Zynga’s claim about how playing poker with your friends online is even more fun was a bit pushing it. With online poker, it doesn’t matter if your friends are available to play. Users want to play poker with any little “fish” available from which to win chips. I think the better poker applications are not on the social networks, and game play in those applications is more challenging. Asynchronous play definitely makes more sense on Facebook and other social networks since players generally “snack” for 10 minutes or so and then move on to the next game—with or without their friends.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:04:55 +0000

It was a very good post,glad i came by to read it.

By: EVCin » PetVille Ends Cross-Promotion of Zynga Poker – Are Synchronous Games Dead?

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:58:00 +0000

[...] on Facebook and the practice of friending strangers to get ahead in a game, see the full post at InsideSocialGames.com // December 8th, 2009 | Tags: Facebook, Farmville, Game Mechanics, Poker, Social Games, Zynga | [...]

By: Laurent Courtines

Laurent Courtines — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:47:10 +0000

Holy moly. Very very good stuff.
This piece reads like a short history of social games. Hmmm. We’ll be passing this one around.