Zynga recently shut down and made unavailable to download 11 games over the holiday season as part of a large cost cutting plan announced in November. These games include PetVille, Mafia Wars 2, FishVille, Vampire Wars, Treasure Isle, Indiana Jones Adventure World, Mafia Wars Shakedown, Forestville, Montopia, Mojitomo and Word Scramble Challenge.
“These shutdowns might not seem like a big deal to everyone, but they were near cataclysmic for some players who pumped countless hours and dollars into these games,” writes Josh Constine. “If you’d spent years tending your virtual aquarium only to have it disappear, you can imagine how disappointed or angry you’d be. Comments from gamers on the shutdown notices included things like ‘my daughter is heartbroken’ and ‘Please don’t remove petville. I been playing for 4 yrs. and I’M going to miss my pet Jaime . . .why do you want cause depression for me and others. Why do you want to kill my pet ‘ To numb the pain and try to get gamers hooked on titles that will keep running, Zynga offered people who played FishVille, Adventure World, and some other titles a free bonus package of virtual goods in one of its flagship games CastleVille, ChefVille, FarmVille 2, Mafia Wars, or YoVille.”
Source: TechCrunch.com
