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To be fair, people get bored of mobile apps, in general, pretty easily. I remember playing Draw Something constantly for a few weeks then I eventually stopped playing because it got old pretty fast. I don't think Zynga is the reason why this is happening.
Nothing in the title or article implies that the Zynga acquisition caused the decline.
I think the majority of us agree the title strongly suggests so.
To be fair, people get bored of mobile apps, in general, pretty easily. I remember playing Draw Something constantly for a few weeks then I eventually stopped playing because it got old pretty fast. I don't think Zynga is the reason why this is happening.
Nothing in the title or article implies that the Zynga acquisition caused the decline.
I can't help thinking that number would be of use if you were trying to estimate the worldwide cardinality of techno-hipsters.
I noticed that about a week after Zynga purchased Draw Something, all of my friends stopped playing. I no longer play either.
I noticed that about a week after Zynga purchased Draw Something, all of my friends stopped playing. I no longer play either.
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My girl and I stopped playing because of that. It went from playable to unplayable literally within a week or two. It would lose our moves (returning to "Your move" when you'd submitted something hours before). It would give strange errors "You're using this on more than once device"... erm, no I'm not. And once it forgot who I was and showed no active games once I logged in again... effectively losing the games I wa…
Anyone have technical insight into the issues? Non-responsiveness sounds like performance scaling issues.
It doesn't talk about current problems, but it may be possible to extrapolate. Still, with user counts going down, scaling problems should be a thing of the past.
Soon after the Zynga acquisition I opened the app and it asked me for a new/additional Facebook permission to have access to post on my wall, with no easy way to play my friends anymore if I said no. Could have something to do with it.