Farmville creator accused of stealing source code

[Tinman]

Zynga accused of stealing Farmville source code from competitor

Dun dun dun

[Crzwaco]

The good old story of guy gets rich someone accuses him of stealing the source code, accuser wants millions.

[sycogrim]

Perhaps more importantly, why does anybody play this crap?

I think the only thing after reading that article which processed through my mind, was the above attached quote.

[HavocXphere]

breach of implied-in-fact contract

There is something very wrong with those Americans when it comes to legal stuff.

The only interesting thing about zynga is taking their games apart, since every single aspect is designed to manipulate you psychologically:
http://lichtman.ca/articles/business...rmville-part-1
http://lichtman.ca/articles/business...lle-–-part-2
http://lichtman.ca/articles/business...rmville-part-3

Read a better analysis of the psych aspect somewhere but can't find it right now so the above will have to do for now.

[souluser7]

I'm not impressed...why won't people earn their money by doing stuff the legit way anymore? :/

[wheunis]

I'm not impressed...why won't people earn their money by doing stuff the legit way anymore? :/

Because suing is so ingrained in the US culture by now, it literally has become the American Way.
If you don't sue somebody at least once per year, you're not really an American.

[steaksauce]

Hmm. They've waited how long to do this? This crappy game has been around for years and only now someone decides it was actually their idea?
"Why does anybody play this crap?", right on the money man.