Perhaps they should put more effort into their software
Their HTML5 implementation of Words With Friends is buggy and slow. Oh, so slow. It takes several minutes to boot on a Windows Phone.
Top dogs at Zynga say the online gaming firm just needs a little more time to turn around its losing streak - after forecasting worse losses than expected for this year's second quarter. The struggling FarmVille maker managed to scrape together a surprise profit for the first three months of this year after cutting costs, but …
"[This year] remains a transition year" - yeah, you're transitioning into loss.
"This reflects the challenging environment on the web " - yeah, people are still not dumb enough to pay you real money for your cloning efforts ; what a shame.
"We’re excited about the entire category of the social casino" - man, there are SO many people yet to con ! And so many ways to con them !
"regulatory obstacles that we can't predict or control" - whassatyousay ? gambling is illegal in most states ? Chucks ! Now what do we do ?
I can' t help remembering the controversy as Zynga executives clawed back stock options issued to employees they saw as undeserving before the IPO.
Somehow the job of running a real business turns out to be more difficult than fleecing a bull market of its silly money. Hubris, meet Nemesis.