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Zynga

April 12, 2024

Zynga Inc. (/ˈzɪŋɡə/) is an American developer running social video game services. It was founded in April 2007, with headquarters in San Mateo, California.[6] The company primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms.[7][8] Zynga states its mission as "connecting the world through games".[9]

Zynga Inc.
FormerlyPresidio Media (April–July 2007)
Company typeSubsidiary
Nasdaq: ZNGA (2011–2022)
IndustryVideo games
FoundedApril 2007; 17 years ago (2007-04)
Founders
Headquarters
San Mateo, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Number of employees
2,952 (2021)
ParentTake-Two Interactive (2022–present)
Websitewww.zynga.com
Footnotes / references
[nb 1][2][3][4][5]

Zynga launched FarmVille, on Facebook in June 2009,[2][10] reaching ten million daily active users (DAU) within six weeks.[11] As of August 2017, Zynga had thirty million monthly active users (MAU).[12] In 2017, its most successful games were Zynga Poker and Words with Friends 2, with about 57 million games being played at any given moment;[13][14] and CSR Racing 2, the most popular racing game on mobile devices.[15] Zynga began trading on NASDAQ on December 16, 2011,[16] under the ticker ZNGA.[17][18][19]

Take-Two Interactive announced in January 2022 its intent to buy Zynga for $12.7 billion.[20] The deal was completed in May 2022.[21]

According to Take-Two Interactive, about 10% of the world's population plays Zynga's games every month.[22]

History edit

Zynga was founded in April 2007 by Mark Pincus, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Michael Luxton, Steve Schoettler, and Andrew Trader under the name Presidio Media.[23][1][3] The company name changed to Zynga in July 2007.[1][24] Zynga was named after Pincus' American bulldog "Zinga",[25][26] and uses an image of a bulldog as its logo. Zynga's first game, Texas Hold'Em Poker, now known as Zynga Poker, was released on Facebook in July 2007. It was the first game Facebook introduced on its social networking platform.[27]

Zynga became the Facebook app developer with the most monthly active users in April 2009, with 40 million people playing their games that month.[28] Soon after, the company opened its first external game studio in Baltimore, Zynga East, led by Brian Reynolds.[29][30][31]

In June 2009, Zynga acquired MyMiniLife which built and launched FarmVille on Facebook. By August, Farmville was the first game on Facebook to reach 10 million daily active users.[32] On November 23, 2009, FarmVille.com went live as Zynga's first stand-alone game.[33] In February 2010, Farmville had over 80 million players,[34] and on May 18, 2010, Facebook and Zynga entered into a five-year relationship to expand the use of Facebook Credits in Zynga's games.[35]

In December 2010, Zynga's game CityVille surpassed FarmVille as its most popular game[36] with over 61 million monthly active users and a base of over 16 million daily active users.[37]

Zynga filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise up to $1 billion in an initial public offering on July 1, 2011. At the time, the company had 2,000 employees.[38] On November 28, 2011, the Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment rejected an acquisition attempt from Zynga worth $2.25 billion.[39] Zynga began trading on NASDAQ on December 16, 2011.[40]

On June 26, 2012, during the Zynga Unleashed conference, Zynga announced the "Zynga With Friends" network, aiming to connect players of Zynga game titles across multiple platforms.[41] Zynga also announced the Zynga API, intended to help developers build social games.[42] The company announced that three new partners were developing games for Zynga.com including 50 Cubes, Majesco Entertainment and Portalarium. The company unveiled the Zynga Partners for Mobile program to help increase Zynga's presence on mobile devices.[43]

In October 2012, Zynga announced a partnership with bwin.party, an international real-money gaming operator, to launch real-money gaming in the UK,[44] including the release of online poker, a suite of 180 casino games, and the first online FarmVille-branded real money slots game during 2013.[44][45][46]

On June 3, 2013, Zynga announced layoffs of 520 employees — roughly 18% of its workforce[47] — and closed offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas.[48][49] By July 2013, Zynga had reportedly lost nearly half of its user base from the previous year. Consequently, investors decreased Zynga's valuation by $400 million.[50] On July 25, 2013, Zynga said they would not be pursuing real money game production in the US.[51] Following this announcement, shares dropped 13%.[52]

In July 2013, Zynga hired Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment President Don Mattrick as its new CEO.[53][54] Pincus remained as Zynga's chairman and chief product officer.[55][56]

 
Employees watch the 2014 FIFA World Cup during a scheduled break.

In January 2014, the company announced the layoff of 314 workers, about 15% of its total workforce.[57][58] In April 2014, founder & former CEO Pincus stepped down from his role as chief product officer. He remained as chairman of the board.[59]

First quarter results for 2014 showed that daily active user numbers fell from 53 million to 28 million year-over-year.[60] In April 2014, the company announced its new hire of Alex Garden, co-founder of Relic Entertainment and former Microsoft Game Studios executive.[61]

In July 2014, Zynga signed a lease for office space in Maitland, Florida. Less than one year later, this Orlando-area office was closed.[62][63]

Don Mattrick left Zynga in April 2015, replaced by predecessor Mark Pincus.[64] Frank Gibeau took over as CEO on March 7, 2016, with Pincus once again stepping aside. Gibeau's last position was as head of mobile for Electronic Arts. He joined Zynga's board of directors in August, 2015.[65][66]

 
Zynga headquarters in San Francisco in 2016

In the fourth quarter of 2017, revenue was $233.3 million, a 22% increase from the same quarter in 2016, the best quarterly performance in five years.[67] As of January 2018, Zynga had 1,681 employees,[68] approximately 80 million monthly active users,[69] and a market capitalization of $3.39 billion.[70] According to the company, Zynga has had over one billion people play its games since its inception in 2007.[71]

On January 10, 2022, Take-Two Interactive announced its intention to acquire the company in a cash-and-stock deal with a value of $12.7 billion, with Take-Two acquiring all outstanding shares of Zynga at $9.86 apiece[20] Both shareholders of the companies approved the merger on May 19, 2022, and the closing of the transaction took effect on May 23, 2022.[72][73]

In June 2023, during the FTC v. Microsoft trial cross-examination, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer disclosed that Microsoft considered purchasing Zynga before Take-Two Interactive acquired the studio in 2022.[74]

Funding edit

In its first round of funding in January 2008, Zynga received US$10 million.[75] In July of the same year, Zynga received US$29 million in venture finance from several firms.[76] During its first four years of operation Zynga raised a total of $854 million in three rounds of fund raising. The last round, in February 2011, raised $490 million.[77]

Public offering edit

On July 1, 2011, the company filed its Form S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).[78] Zynga was priced at $10 per share and began trading on NASDAQ under ZNGA on December 16, 2011. The stock closed down 5% on its first day,[16] then climbed 26% to $13.39 per share after Facebook's IPO filing on February 1, 2012 (Facebook had reported that 12% of its revenue comes from Zynga).[79] In March 2012 ZNGA was trading at $14.50.[80] For several years the stock performed poorly, but in 2017 the price hit a three-year high. By the end of 2017 Zynga's shares were trading at $4.00, a 56% gain for the year.[81]

Acquisitions edit

Date Games Company New name Price Country Footnotes
July 2008 Yoville cb USA [82]
Feb 2010 Serious Business USA [83]
Feb 2010 Los Angeles, CA

USA

[84]
Feb 2010 Bangalore,

India

[85]
May 2010 XPD Media Beijing,

China

[86]
Aug 2010 Unoh Games Zynga Japan Tokyo,

Japan

[87][88]
June 2010 Challenge Games Zynga Austin Austin, Texas

USA

[86]
June 2010 FrontierVille Zynga East Timonium, MD

USA

[89][90][91]
Aug 2010 Conduit Labs Zynga Boston Cambridge, MA

USA

[86][92]
Sept 2010 Aves Engine

(Game engine technology)

Dextrose AG Zynga Germany Frankfurt,

Germany

[87]
Oct 2010 Bonfire Studios Zynga Dallas Dallas, Texas

USA

[86]
Dec 2010 Words with Friends;

Chess with Friends

Newtoy, Inc. Zynga with Friends McKinney, Texas

USA

[93][94][95][96]
Jan 2011 CSI: Crime City

Parking Wars

Drop7

Area/Code Zynga New York New York,

USA

[97]
March 2011 MoPets;

Madden 2005 and 2006;

NASCAR 07;

Pirates of the Caribbean;

Flowerz

Floodgate Entertainment Boston,

USA

[98]
April 2011 MarketZero Austin, Texas

USA

[99]
Jun 2011 Social browser Flock [99]
March 2012 Draw Something OMGPop $180 million [100][101]
June 2012 Tomb Raider;

Tony Hawk

Buzz Monkey Zynga Eugene Oregon,

USA

[102]
Sept 2012 Lucky Train A Bit Lucky $20 million+ [103][104]
Nov 2012 Battlestone November Software [105]
June 2013 Wizard of Oz;

Hit it Rich Slots

Spooky Cool Labs [106]
Jan 2014 CSR Racing;

Clumsy Ninja

NaturalMotion $527 million Oxford,

United Kingdom

[107]
June 2015 Product Incubator SuperLabs $1.00 [108]
June 2016 Dragon Academy Team Chaos Austin, Texas

USA

[109][110]
March 2017 Solitaire;

FreeCell;

Pyramid;

Spider Solitaire

Harpan, LLC $42.5 million [111]
Nov 2017 Casual card games Peak Games $100 million Turkey [112]
May 2018 "Merge" games Gram Games $250 million United Kingdom

Turkey

[113]
Dec 2018 Empires & Puzzles Small Giant Games $560 million Finland [114]
June 2020 Toy Blast Peak $1.8 billion Turkey [115]
October 2020 Go Knots 3D;

Tangle Master 3D

Rollic $180 million Turkey [116]
March 2021 Echtra Games $21.1 million San Francisco, CA

USA

[117][118]
May 2021 Chartboost $250 million San Francisco, CA

USA

[119]
August 2021 Golf Rival StarLark $525 million China [120]
February 2022 NanoTribe Germany [121]
September 2022 Storemaven Israel [122]
November 2022 Popcore Germany [123]

Business model edit

Zynga uses a "free-to-play" business model.[124] Revenue is acquired via direct credit card payments and partner businesses.[125][126] It sells in-game virtual goods as people play its games, supports in-game advertising,[127] and it has banner advertising around its game portals.[128]

In addition, Zynga games are linked to offers from several partners. Players can choose to accept credit card offers, take surveys or buy services from Zynga's partners in order to obtain game credits. Players may also purchase game credits directly from Zynga.[125] In the game, players can purchase the points for a fee. In March 2010 Zynga started selling pre-paid cards in the US for virtual currency.[129]

In March, 2012, Zynga launched a separate social gaming platform, which included publishing other developers to the Zynga.com platform. Early third-party developers included Row Sham Bow, Inc and Mobscience.[130] In June 2012, Zynga started running Facebook advertisements and sponsored stories on its website. The revenue was split between Facebook and Zynga.[131]

Hasbro partnership edit

In February 2012, it was announced that Zynga and Hasbro had partnered to create products based on Zynga properties and brands.[132] In October 2012, Zynga and Hasbro launched eight 'face-to-face' games resulting from their collaboration: FarmVille Hungry Hungry Herd and Animal Games; CityVille Monopoly and Skies; Words With Friends Classic, Luxe, To Go; and Draw Something.[133] The Hasbro games included ties to Zynga Web and mobile games, such as in-game currency that players can use in the digital versions of CityVille and FarmVille.[133]

Customer acquisition edit

The company initially relied on free distribution of its product to users, and later began spending money on marketing.[134] [better source needed] In 2017, developing a paid user base took priority over a new user acquisition. According to one analyst, Zynga can either fund the creation of new games to attract new users, or it can buy smaller game studios with new games which will bring in new customers.[135]

Platinum Purchase Program edit

In September 2010, Gawker reported that Zynga had set up a "Platinum Purchase Program," a private club for their top spenders, allowing members to purchase virtual currency at favorable rates.[136] Despite some bad publicity, the program was considered a sound core business principle.[137] The program shut down on October 31, 2014.[citation needed]

Viability edit

Some journalists questioned the viability of Zynga's business model. Ray Valdes questioned the long-term prospects for Zynga, saying that it would be difficult for the company to make new titles to replace old ones whose novelty is fading.[25] Tom Bollich, a former Zynga investor, said that it is impossible to make a cheap viral game, and that retaining customers is difficult.[138]

In an October 2011 article in The Wall Street Journal, Ben Levisohn said that Zynga has "issues that could limit its upside," such as its dependence on Facebook and its reliance on a small percentage of users and a small number of games for most of its revenue.[139]

In July 2012, after announcing disappointing second quarter results, some analysts speculated that the sale of virtual items may not be a long-term, viable business model.[140] Analyst Richard Greenfield downgraded Zynga from "buy" to "neutral."[140] In 2012 Zynga took steps to turn its business around, which included introducing new Web, mobile, and multiplayer games and developing a gambling game to be introduced outside the U.S.[141][142] The company worked to increase advertising revenues, which were up to 45 percent in Q2 2012 compared to the previous quarter and increased to 170 percent year-over-year.[143]

In-game sign-up edit

Through 2009, Zynga let players earn in-game rewards for signing up for credit cards or for a video-rental membership. In November 2009 the company removed all "lead-generating" ads, relying instead on revenue generated by the 1-3 percent of players that pay for in-game items. Since then it began re-introducing the ads back in but with controls to monitor the kinds of ads that appear.[125]

In early November 2009, it was estimated that about one-third of Zynga's revenue came from companies that provide legitimate commercial offers, such as trading Netflix memberships and marketing surveys for in-game cash.[144] Because of criticism and complaints that some ads were scams, on November 2, 2009, former CEO Mark Pincus said that Tatto Media, a major offer provider that enrolled users into recurring cell phone subscriptions, and the worst of the lead generator scam, had already been removed from Zynga and was banned, in addition to requiring providers to filter and police offers before posting to their networks.[145]

Corporate culture edit

 
Zynga HQ

In 2011, Zynga started to move employees to new headquarters, located in San Francisco's South of Market district.[146] Zynga's headquarters, nicknamed "The Dog House",[147] features a coffee shop, gaming arcade, gym, basketball court, and wellness center.[148] At its San Francisco headquarters, Zynga Founder Pincus's goal was to create a "playful gaming environment" that evokes a "fantasy land."[147] Zynga employees, also referred to as "Zyngites", enjoy perks such as free gourmet meals, access to an in-house nutritionist, and personal training.[149]

Zynga operates as a meritocracy in which employees are encouraged to be and are compensated for being great entrepreneurs. The company works hard to be a 'flat organization.' Pincus stated that Zynga is "searching for leaders" and they encourage employees to "break the rules". The company expects workers to fix what they are unhappy with, thus making the workplace better for everyone.[150]

Pincus stated that Zynga is "building a house that we want to live in". He meets with new hires about every two weeks and speaks with them for about 90 minutes, in an open question and answer format. He discusses the company's values, and he encourages the new employees to challenge those values.[150]

Women at Zynga, launched in 2011, is an employee-led resource group that focuses on empowering women to succeed and become leaders in their careers and communities especially within the tech space. According to Stephanie Hess, VP of Communications at Zynga, who also leads Women at Zynga, the group strives to attract, hire and retain top female talent.[151] Women at Zynga also organizes events of special interest to women.[152][153]

The Christian Science Monitor recognized the company's efforts to use a storytelling model to recognize the diversity of women employees.[154]

Zynga has a "family first" atmosphere and is "kid-friendly" for child visitors. The company has seasonal events, such as a Halloween party to which employees bring their children. Employees feel supported professionally as well as personally. The company believes that "allowing employees to be present in all parts of their life will lead to more productivity in the workplace and beyond." Zynga also "encourages flexibility and supports employees' personal growth".[153] The company also supports employees with infertility issues.[155]

Zynga offers mothers 26 weeks of paid maternity leave, and fathers/partners can take 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave. The company also offers free, on-site, gym and fitness classes, free breakfast and lunch each day, a shuttle service to the Bay Area Rapid Transit and CalTrain in San Francisco. The company also has "relaxation lounges" and arcade and console games, dry cleaning services on-site, and indoor bicycle parking. Each of the different locations offer different benefits to a certain extent. In general, the company is highly "dog-friendly" where "Every day is 'bring your dog to work day'." Employees who own dogs can receive treats for them, pet insurance and a dog park on the roof.[156] There is also a "Take as much time off as you need" policy.[157] The 'Blue Bottle Café' offers free specialty coffee served by baristas.[158] Zynga's culinary program is based on friends cooking for friends, including the menu planning and cooking process.[159]

Prior to the company's 2011 IPO, when Pincus was still CEO, Zynga's corporate culture received some negative media attention for renegotiating the equity packages of four senior employees.[160] Those employees were required to either give up part of their non-vested stock or be fired.[161] Although a San Francisco employment lawyer said in The Wall Street Journal that Zynga's actions would violate the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, no court has ruled on the issue since it has been rare for companies to demand non-vested stock as a condition of continued employment.[161] Pincus later explained that Zynga

wanted to find them another position at the company versus just parting ways. They had the option to leave and have a package, as happened with some other leaders, but we in addition to that offered them other positions at the company that came with different forward compensation.[160]

In November 2011, The New York Times reported that Zynga "operates like a federation of city-states" with each of its games, such as FarmVille and CityVille, run by autonomous teams. This culture reportedly fostered "fierce internal competition" and caused some employees to complain about long hours and stressful deadlines.[162] Two former senior Zynga employees, quoted anonymously by the Times, speculated that Zynga's corporate culture caused the company to lose a bid to acquire mobile game company PopCap and nearly derailed its acquisition of MyMiniLife, which later developed the technology that is the basis for FarmVille. At least one Zynga employee said he planned to cash out and leave Zynga after the IPO.[162]

When asked about the criticisms Zynga had received for its workplace environment, Pincus said the company strives to be a meritocracy[162] with a culture of leveling up through promotions. Pincus's management philosophy is to "turn people into CEOs", encouraging employees to identify and fully own "something really meaningful" to the company.[163] The CEO's philosophy is part of the Zynga meritocracy in which employees are rewarded for results. Pincus told The New York Times:

The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued. And if they see somebody else higher above them just because of a good résumé, or they see somebody else promoted who they don't think deserves it, you're done.[163]

In February 2013, Chief Game Designer Brian Reynolds discussed company culture positively in a post for VentureBeat at the time of his exit from Zynga, saying "the capability to absorb and adapt to change quickly is one of the great strengths of Zynga's culture – the true meaning of the motto and occasional battle cry Zynga Speed!" among other comments.[164]

In 2017, Zynga donated a large sum to the University of Southern California to support the study of social mobile games, inclusive game production, and advancing diversity in the industry.[165]

Recognition edit

In 2017, Entrepreneur magazine recognized Zynga as one of 11 companies which offer benefits to employees with fertility issues.[166]

Huffington Post recognized Women at Zynga as a group that embodies the company's commitment to gender diversity.[167]

Zynga.org edit

Main article: Zynga.org

In 2009, Zynga started a nonprofit organization, Zynga.org, in charge of incorporating charitable contributions into its games such as FarmVille. As of 2015, Zynga.org efforts have raised $20 million for international humanitarian relief efforts and philanthropic initiatives.[168]

Relationship with Facebook edit

On July 18, 2011, Zynga filed an addendum to its Form S-1 detailing its relationship with Facebook, including the 2010 five-year agreement to use Facebook credits exclusively.[169][170]

On October 11, 2011, Zynga announced plans to create their own platform on which users can play the company's games. It was Zynga's first major step away from the social media giant.[171]

At one point during 2011, Zynga made up 19 percent of Facebook's revenue, partly because of the special mutually beneficial relationship between the two companies.[172]

In November 2012, Facebook ended its special agreement with Zynga. Effective March 31, 2013, Zynga was bound by the standard Facebook Platform policies.[173]

In May 2017, Zynga launched Words with Friends on Facebook's newly launched platform Instant Games, on Facebook's Messenger instant messaging app.[174]

Owned studios edit

Headquarters edit

In the fall of 2010, Zynga signed a rental agreement for 270,000 square feet (25,000 m2) of office space at the site of former Sega offices.[175] In 2012, the company purchased the entire building, with about 407,000 square feet of total space, for $228 million. The building was reported to be worth about $500 million in 2016.[176][177]

In 2022, Zynga relocated its headquarters to San Mateo, California.[178][6]

Active studios edit

Name Description Date

Acquired/established

Footnote
NaturalMotion

(offices in Brighton and London)

Acquired Boss Alien in 2014 when Zynga bought NaturalMotion

for a company record of $527 million. NaturalMotion had

purchased Boss Alien in the summer of 2012.

2014 [179][180][181]
Zynga Chicago Zynga acquired Spooky Cool Labs June 2013 [182]
Zynga ATX Formerly MarketZero April 2011 [183]
Zynga Austin Formerly Challenge Games June 2010 [184]
Zynga Eugene Formerly Buzz Monkey Software June 2012 [185]
Zynga India Bangalore, India February 2010 [186]
Zynga Ireland 2011 [187]
Zynga Toronto Formerly Five Mobile July 2011 [188]
Zynga Turkey Zynga acquired Peak Games' casual card portfolio in 2017 November 2017 [189]
Zynga San Diego

Former studios edit

Name Description Date

Acquired/Established

Date Closed Footnotes
OMGPop Draw Something creators March 2012 June 2013 [190][191]
Floodgage Entertainment March 2011 October 2012 [192][193]
Wild Needle A casual games company that makes

games which appeal to women/girls

May 2012 [194]
Zynga with Friends Formerly Newtoy, Inc., based in McKinney, Texas November 2010 June 2013 [195][196][197]
Zynga Boston Formerly Conduit Labs August 2010 October 2012 [193]
Zynga China Formerly XPD Media, based in Beijing May 2010 February 2015 [198][199]
Zynga Dallas Formerly Bonfire Studios October 2010 June 2013 [200][196]
Zynga Germany Formerly Dextrose AG, based in Frankfurt September 2010 [201]
Zynga East Based in Baltimore, Maryland May 2009 February 2013 [202]
Zynga Japan Formerly Unoh Games, based in Tokyo August 2010 January 2013 [203][204]
Zynga Los Angeles February 2010 June 2013 [205][206][207]
Zynga New York Formerly Area/Code January 2011 June 2013 [205][206]
Page 44 Studios September 2011 [208]
Zynga Seattle October 2010 January 2014 [209][210]
Rising Tide Games September 2015 [211]
Zindagi Games February 2016 [212]
NaturalMotion (Oxford) January 2014 October 2017 [181]

Reception and controversies edit

Spam concerns edit

Many of Zynga's games involve players posting messages to non-players, often for in-game benefits. Many non-players have notably complained about such communications created by those games that appear to them as "spammy." Peter Jamison described Zynga's communications as a "deluge" of "unwanted gifts or requests for neighborly 'help'".[138] Facebook groups created to express displeasure regarding overexposure of Zynga's games attracted millions of members.[125] As a result of this, Facebook modified their application developers policy to prevent applications from sending messages to news feeds of friends or submitting updates to the notifications bar.[213][214] Kotaku attributed the removal of Facebook notifications to a decline of users of Zynga games in April and May 2010.[215]

Intellectual property infringement edit

Zynga has been accused several times of copying game concepts of popular games by competing developers.[216][217] The launch of Mafia Wars sparked a lawsuit from the makers of Mob Wars.[218] An attorney for Psycho Monkey, the creators of Mob Wars, said that in making Mafia Wars, Zynga "copied virtually every important aspect of the game."[219] The suit was settled out of court for $7–9 million.[220] An Ars Technica column said that Zynga's Café World and Playfish's Restaurant City were "nearly identical"; Café World was released six months after Restaurant City. Its gameplay, design, graphics, avatars, and even in-game items are almost identical to the ones in Restaurant City.[221] In addition, journalists have remarked that Zynga's FarmVille is similar to Farm Town, another Zynga game, with Peter Jamison calling it "uncannily similar."[138][219]

In September 2010, SF Weekly reported that an employee recalled Mark Pincus advising him to "copy what [Zynga's competitors] do and do it until you get their numbers."[138] NimbleBit founder Ian Marsh has accused Zynga of copying its award-winning Tiny Tower game to create Dream Heights.[222][223] Within a week, Buffalo Studios alleged that its game Bingo Blitz was copied by Zynga in making Zynga Bingo.[224] Pincus responded by saying that tower-building games have existed since SimTower (1994) and that Zynga uses mechanics and ideas developed throughout the history of video games to create the "best-in-market games." He added that Bingo Blitz has similarities to the discontinued Zynga game Poker Blitz.[225] In response, Marsh argued that other tower games like SimTower and Tower Bloxx are substantially different from Tiny Tower and Dream Heights, and that Zynga copied Tiny Tower's "core gameplay mechanics and rules" and tutorial steps.[226] Inside Social Games writer Pete Davison said that although Zynga's The Ville is "not a complete clone" of The Sims Social, it was "very similar."[227]

Zynga founder Mark Pincus has dismissed the criticisms, saying that competing video game makers have always released similar titles for each genre of game.[125] The managing director of Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jeremy Liew, said that creating similar competing games has "always been part of the game industry."[219] Following Zynga's January 2012 release of Hidden Chronicles, Paul Tassi of Forbes wrote that Zynga "refuses to innovate in any way, and is merely a follower when it comes to ideas and game design."[228] In September 2009 Zynga was threatened with legal action by Nissan for using their trademarks in the game Street Racing. Zynga subsequently renamed and changed the thumbnail images of all cars that were branded Nissan and Infiniti to "Sindats" and "Fujis" with the thumbnails changed.[229] At the time they also renamed and redesigned automobiles depicted as being made by GM, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Saab, and others. In September 2009, Zynga initiated trade secrets lawsuits against Playdom and 22 other rivals,[230] including Green Patch which Playdom acquired in November 2009. These lawsuits were finally settled in November 2010.[231] In October 2010, Zynga was criticized on Hacker News[232] and other social media sites for having filed a patent application[233] relating to the ability to purchase virtual currency for cash on gambling and other gaming sites. Commentators said that significant prior art exists for the concept.[234]

In January 2011, Techdirt reported that Zynga sent a cease and desist letter to Blingville alleging trademark infringement for its use of the letters "ville" in the name of a proposed Facebook game. Blingville filed a suit for declaratory judgment that it did not infringe on a Zynga trademark.[235] As reported in Gamasutra, Jay Monahan of Zynga responded by saying that Blingville's "[use] of the name 'BlingVille' is an obvious attempt to capitalize on the fame and goodwill associated with Zynga's family of 'ville' games which includes FarmVille and CityVille".[236]

In November 2011, Inside Mobile Apps wrote that Zynga's lawyers demanded that mobile game developer Latman Interactive abandon its trademark registration for the game Quackville.[237] Night Owl Games has also filed a lawsuit for declaratory judgment that its game Dungeonville does not infringe any Zynga trademarks after Zynga protested Night Owl's registration of the Dungeonville trademark.[238] In May 2012, Zynga sued Kobojo for trademark infringement for calling one of its games PyramidVille.[239][240] In October that year Zynga and Kobojo settled the suit with neither party making any payment as part of the settlement.[241]

On May 20, 2011, it was reported that The Learning Company, owners of The Oregon Trail trademark, filed a trademark infringement suit against Zynga, which was planning an "Oregon Trail" expansion to FrontierVille.[242] The Learning Company had previously contacted Zynga about an Oregon Trail game on Facebook, but Zynga declined.[243] On May 24, Games.com writer Brandy Shaul wrote that Zynga was dropping the Oregon Trail name and soliciting new names for the expansion.[244] The name of the expansion became "Pioneer Trail." In March 2015 Zynga announced it was closing six games, including Pioneer Trail.[245]

In August 2012, Electronic Arts (EA) sued Zynga for copyright infringement, alleging that Zynga's The Ville copied expressive elements of EA's The Sims Social.[246] Zynga's counsel responded by alleging that EA's SimCity Social "bears an uncanny resemblance to Zynga's CityVille".[246] The litigants settled their suit in February 2013.[247][248] The agreement stipulated that each side would bear its own legal costs and drop the allegations.[249]

On October 14, 2012, Zynga filed a lawsuit against a former general manager Alan Patmore, for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets. The suit claimed Patmore misappropriated trade secrets and was in breach of contract.[250] The suit was settled in September 2013.[251]

Insider trading allegations edit

In July 2012, a class action lawsuit was filed against Zynga, alleging that Mark Pincus and some other insiders were allowed to sell shares before disappointing Q2 results were revealed.[252][253] The lawsuit was settled in August 2015 for $23 million.[254]

In March 2015, a district judge ruled that plaintiffs can pursue a lawsuit against Zynga on claims executives inflated the company's value prior to its 2011 initial public offering by concealing weaknesses in its R&D pipeline of new games, numbers of users and their purchasing patterns, and other key metrics.[255]

Other legal issues edit

In late May 2010, the Norwegian Consumer Council filed a complaint to the Data Inspectorate regarding breaches of the Data Protection Act.[256] In August 2011 the Data Inspectorate concluded that Facebook is not under Norwegian jurisdiction, since the company is established in Ireland and not in Norway. The complaint was therefore forwarded to the Irish commissioner of data protection.[257]

In August 2010, the San Francisco city attorney's office complained about the firm's guerrilla marketing campaign for its Mafia Wars game that pasted fake money on city sidewalks, calling it "vandalism".[258] Davis Elen Advertising took responsibility for the ad campaign and agreed to pay the city of San Francisco $45,000 in fines for illegal marketing tactics.[259][260]

Data breach edit

In September 2019, a Pakistani hacker that goes by the name Gnosticplayers claimed to have hacked into Zynga's database of Words with Friends players and gained access to the 218 million accounts registered there. While Zynga affirmed the hack and that the information revealed included names, emails, Login IDs, hashed and salted passwords (SHA-1), password reset tokens, Zynga account IDs and connections to Facebook and other social media services, they did not state how many accounts were affected, but would contact those players with affected accounts. The data breach-tracking website Have I Been Pwned? affirmed in December 2019 that more than 173 million accounts were affected.[261][262][263]

Mobile games edit

Games Facebook Mobile Platform
Boggle With Friends   No   Yes
Chess With Friends   No   Yes
Clumsy Ninja   No   Yes
CSR Racing   No   Yes
CSR Racing 2   No   Yes
CSR Racing Classics   No   Yes
Crazy Cake Swap   No   Yes
Crazy Kitchen   No   Yes
Crosswords With Friends   No   Yes
Draw Something   No   Yes
Drop 7   No   Yes
Empires & Allies   No   Yes
FarmVille   Yes   No
FarmVille 2   Yes   No
FarmVille 2: Country Escape   No   Yes
FarmVille 2: Tropic Escape   Yes   Yes
FarmVille 3: Animals   No   Yes
FarmVille Harvest Swap   Yes   Yes
FarmVille Tropic Escape   No   Yes
Game of Thrones Slots Casino   Yes   Yes
Gems With Friends   No   Yes
Hanging With Friends   No   Yes
Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells   No   Yes
Hit It Rich! Casino Slots   Yes   Yes
Matching With Friends   No   Yes
Merge Magic   No   Yes
PetVille ? ?
Princess Bride Slots   Yes   Yes
Speed Guess Something   No   Yes
Spin It Rich   Yes   Yes
What's the Phrase   No   Yes
Willy Wonka Slots   Yes   Yes
Wizard of Oz Magic Match   Yes   Yes
Wizard of Oz Slots   Yes   Yes
Wonka's World of Candy   No   Yes
Word Streak With Friends
(Formerly Scramble With Friends)		   Yes   Yes
Words With Friends   Yes   Yes
Words With Friends 2   No   Yes
Words On Tour   No   Yes
Yummy Gummy   No   Yes
Zynga Poker   Yes   Yes
Zynga Poker Classic   No   Yes

Board games edit

In 2012, Zynga, in conjunction with Hasbro, released several physical board games based on the various properties in the Zynga game library. These games were released under the Hasbro imprint, "Hasbro Gaming".

As of 2012, Zynga's list of available games includes board game versions of Draw Something, a CityVille edition of Monopoly, Words with Friends, and several kids' "Animal Games" based on FarmVille.[264][265]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Zynga was originally incorporated as Presidio Media in April 2007. The company's name was changed to Zynga in July 2007.[1]

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zynga, american, developer, running, social, video, game, services, founded, april, 2007, with, headquarters, mateo, california, company, primarily, focuses, mobile, social, networking, platforms, states, mission, connecting, world, through, games, formerlypre. Zynga Inc ˈ z ɪ ŋ ɡ e is an American developer running social video game services It was founded in April 2007 with headquarters in San Mateo California 6 The company primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms 7 8 Zynga states its mission as connecting the world through games 9 Zynga Inc FormerlyPresidio Media April July 2007 Company typeSubsidiaryTraded asNasdaq ZNGA 2011 2022 IndustryVideo gamesFoundedApril 2007 17 years ago 2007 04 FoundersMark Pincus Justin Waldron Eric Schiermeyer Michael Luxton Steve SchoettlerHeadquartersSan Mateo California United StatesArea servedWorldwideKey peopleMark Pincus Executive Chairman Frank Gibeau CEO Number of employees2 952 2021 ParentTake Two Interactive 2022 present Websitewww wbr zynga wbr comFootnotes references nb 1 2 3 4 5 Zynga launched FarmVille on Facebook in June 2009 2 10 reaching ten million daily active users DAU within six weeks 11 As of August 2017 Zynga had thirty million monthly active users MAU 12 In 2017 its most successful games were Zynga Poker and Words with Friends 2 with about 57 million games being played at any given moment 13 14 and CSR Racing 2 the most popular racing game on mobile devices 15 Zynga began trading on NASDAQ on December 16 2011 16 under the ticker ZNGA 17 18 19 Take Two Interactive announced in January 2022 its intent to buy Zynga for 12 7 billion 20 The deal was completed in May 2022 21 According to Take Two Interactive about 10 of the world s population plays Zynga s games every month 22 Contents 1 History 2 Funding 2 1 Public offering 3 Acquisitions 4 Business model 4 1 Hasbro partnership 4 2 Customer acquisition 4 3 Platinum Purchase Program 4 4 Viability 4 5 In game sign up 5 Corporate culture 5 1 Recognition 6 Zynga org 7 Relationship with Facebook 8 Owned studios 8 1 Headquarters 8 2 Active studios 8 3 Former studios 9 Reception and controversies 9 1 Spam concerns 9 2 Intellectual property infringement 9 3 Insider trading allegations 9 4 Other legal issues 9 5 Data breach 10 Mobile games 11 Board games 12 Notes 13 References 14 See also 15 External linksHistory editZynga was founded in April 2007 by Mark Pincus Eric Schiermeyer Justin Waldron Michael Luxton Steve Schoettler and Andrew Trader under the name Presidio Media 23 1 3 The company name changed to Zynga in July 2007 1 24 Zynga was named after Pincus American bulldog Zinga 25 26 and uses an image of a bulldog as its logo Zynga s first game Texas Hold Em Poker now known as Zynga Poker was released on Facebook in July 2007 It was the first game Facebook introduced on its social networking platform 27 Zynga became the Facebook app developer with the most monthly active users in April 2009 with 40 million people playing their games that month 28 Soon after the company opened its first external game studio in Baltimore Zynga East led by Brian Reynolds 29 30 31 In June 2009 Zynga acquired MyMiniLife which built and launched FarmVille on Facebook By August Farmville was the first game on Facebook to reach 10 million daily active users 32 On November 23 2009 FarmVille com went live as Zynga s first stand alone game 33 In February 2010 Farmville had over 80 million players 34 and on May 18 2010 Facebook and Zynga entered into a five year relationship to expand the use of Facebook Credits in Zynga s games 35 In December 2010 Zynga s game CityVille surpassed FarmVille as its most popular game 36 with over 61 million monthly active users and a base of over 16 million daily active users 37 Zynga filed with the U S Securities and Exchange Commission SEC to raise up to 1 billion in an initial public offering on July 1 2011 At the time the company had 2 000 employees 38 On November 28 2011 the Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment rejected an acquisition attempt from Zynga worth 2 25 billion 39 Zynga began trading on NASDAQ on December 16 2011 40 On June 26 2012 during the Zynga Unleashed conference Zynga announced the Zynga With Friends network aiming to connect players of Zynga game titles across multiple platforms 41 Zynga also announced the Zynga API intended to help developers build social games 42 The company announced that three new partners were developing games for Zynga com including 50 Cubes Majesco Entertainment and Portalarium The company unveiled the Zynga Partners for Mobile program to help increase Zynga s presence on mobile devices 43 In October 2012 Zynga announced a partnership with bwin party an international real money gaming operator to launch real money gaming in the UK 44 including the release of online poker a suite of 180 casino games and the first online FarmVille branded real money slots game during 2013 44 45 46 On June 3 2013 Zynga announced layoffs of 520 employees roughly 18 of its workforce 47 and closed offices in New York Los Angeles and Dallas 48 49 By July 2013 Zynga had reportedly lost nearly half of its user base from the previous year Consequently investors decreased Zynga s valuation by 400 million 50 On July 25 2013 Zynga said they would not be pursuing real money game production in the US 51 Following this announcement shares dropped 13 52 In July 2013 Zynga hired Microsoft s Interactive Entertainment President Don Mattrick as its new CEO 53 54 Pincus remained as Zynga s chairman and chief product officer 55 56 nbsp Employees watch the 2014 FIFA World Cup during a scheduled break In January 2014 the company announced the layoff of 314 workers about 15 of its total workforce 57 58 In April 2014 founder amp former CEO Pincus stepped down from his role as chief product officer He remained as chairman of the board 59 First quarter results for 2014 showed that daily active user numbers fell from 53 million to 28 million year over year 60 In April 2014 the company announced its new hire of Alex Garden co founder of Relic Entertainment and former Microsoft Game Studios executive 61 In July 2014 Zynga signed a lease for office space in Maitland Florida Less than one year later this Orlando area office was closed 62 63 Don Mattrick left Zynga in April 2015 replaced by predecessor Mark Pincus 64 Frank Gibeau took over as CEO on March 7 2016 with Pincus once again stepping aside Gibeau s last position was as head of mobile for Electronic Arts He joined Zynga s board of directors in August 2015 65 66 nbsp Zynga headquarters in San Francisco in 2016In the fourth quarter of 2017 revenue was 233 3 million a 22 increase from the same quarter in 2016 the best quarterly performance in five years 67 As of January 2018 Zynga had 1 681 employees 68 approximately 80 million monthly active users 69 and a market capitalization of 3 39 billion 70 According to the company Zynga has had over one billion people play its games since its inception in 2007 71 On January 10 2022 Take Two Interactive announced its intention to acquire the company in a cash and stock deal with a value of 12 7 billion with Take Two acquiring all outstanding shares of Zynga at 9 86 apiece 20 Both shareholders of the companies approved the merger on May 19 2022 and the closing of the transaction took effect on May 23 2022 72 73 In June 2023 during the FTC v Microsoft trial cross examination Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer disclosed that Microsoft considered purchasing Zynga before Take Two Interactive acquired the studio in 2022 74 Funding editIn its first round of funding in January 2008 Zynga received US 10 million 75 In July of the same year Zynga received US 29 million in venture finance from several firms 76 During its first four years of operation Zynga raised a total of 854 million in three rounds of fund raising The last round in February 2011 raised 490 million 77 Public offering edit On July 1 2011 the company filed its Form S 1 registration statement with the U S Securities and Exchange Commission SEC 78 Zynga was priced at 10 per share and began trading on NASDAQ under ZNGA on December 16 2011 The stock closed down 5 on its first day 16 then climbed 26 to 13 39 per share after Facebook s IPO filing on February 1 2012 Facebook had reported that 12 of its revenue comes from Zynga 79 In March 2012 ZNGA was trading at 14 50 80 For several years the stock performed poorly but in 2017 the price hit a three year high By the end of 2017 Zynga s shares were trading at 4 00 a 56 gain for the year 81 Acquisitions editDate Games Company New name Price Country FootnotesJuly 2008 Yoville cb USA 82 Feb 2010 Serious Business USA 83 Feb 2010 Los Angeles CA USA 84 Feb 2010 Bangalore India 85 May 2010 XPD Media Beijing China 86 Aug 2010 Unoh Games Zynga Japan Tokyo Japan 87 88 June 2010 Challenge Games Zynga Austin Austin Texas USA 86 June 2010 FrontierVille Zynga East Timonium MD USA 89 90 91 Aug 2010 Conduit Labs Zynga Boston Cambridge MA USA 86 92 Sept 2010 Aves Engine Game engine technology Dextrose AG Zynga Germany Frankfurt Germany 87 Oct 2010 Bonfire Studios Zynga Dallas Dallas Texas USA 86 Dec 2010 Words with Friends Chess with Friends Newtoy Inc Zynga with Friends McKinney Texas USA 93 94 95 96 Jan 2011 CSI Crime City Parking WarsDrop7 Area Code Zynga New York New York USA 97 March 2011 MoPets Madden 2005 and 2006 NASCAR 07 Pirates of the Caribbean Flowerz Floodgate Entertainment Boston USA 98 April 2011 MarketZero Austin Texas USA 99 Jun 2011 Social browser Flock 99 March 2012 Draw Something OMGPop 180 million 100 101 June 2012 Tomb Raider Tony Hawk Buzz Monkey Zynga Eugene Oregon USA 102 Sept 2012 Lucky Train A Bit Lucky 20 million 103 104 Nov 2012 Battlestone November Software 105 June 2013 Wizard of Oz Hit it Rich Slots Spooky Cool Labs 106 Jan 2014 CSR Racing Clumsy Ninja NaturalMotion 527 million Oxford United Kingdom 107 June 2015 Product Incubator SuperLabs 1 00 108 June 2016 Dragon Academy Team Chaos Austin Texas USA 109 110 March 2017 Solitaire FreeCell Pyramid Spider Solitaire Harpan LLC 42 5 million 111 Nov 2017 Casual card games Peak Games 100 million Turkey 112 May 2018 Merge games Gram Games 250 million United Kingdom Turkey 113 Dec 2018 Empires amp Puzzles Small Giant Games 560 million Finland 114 June 2020 Toy Blast Peak 1 8 billion Turkey 115 October 2020 Go Knots 3D Tangle Master 3D Rollic 180 million Turkey 116 March 2021 Echtra Games 21 1 million San Francisco CA USA 117 118 May 2021 Chartboost 250 million San Francisco CA USA 119 August 2021 Golf Rival StarLark 525 million China 120 February 2022 NanoTribe Germany 121 September 2022 Storemaven Israel 122 November 2022 Popcore Germany 123 Business model editZynga uses a free to play business model 124 Revenue is acquired via direct credit card payments and partner businesses 125 126 It sells in game virtual goods as people play its games supports in game advertising 127 and it has banner advertising around its game portals 128 In addition Zynga games are linked to offers from several partners Players can choose to accept credit card offers take surveys or buy services from Zynga s partners in order to obtain game credits Players may also purchase game credits directly from Zynga 125 In the game players can purchase the points for a fee In March 2010 Zynga started selling pre paid cards in the US for virtual currency 129 In March 2012 Zynga launched a separate social gaming platform which included publishing other developers to the Zynga com platform Early third party developers included Row Sham Bow Inc and Mobscience 130 In June 2012 Zynga started running Facebook advertisements and sponsored stories on its website The revenue was split between Facebook and Zynga 131 Hasbro partnership edit In February 2012 it was announced that Zynga and Hasbro had partnered to create products based on Zynga properties and brands 132 In October 2012 Zynga and Hasbro launched eight face to face games resulting from their collaboration FarmVille Hungry Hungry Herd and Animal Games CityVille Monopoly and Skies Words With Friends Classic Luxe To Go and Draw Something 133 The Hasbro games included ties to Zynga Web and mobile games such as in game currency that players can use in the digital versions of CityVille and FarmVille 133 Customer acquisition edit The company initially relied on free distribution of its product to users and later began spending money on marketing 134 better source needed In 2017 developing a paid user base took priority over a new user acquisition According to one analyst Zynga can either fund the creation of new games to attract new users or it can buy smaller game studios with new games which will bring in new customers 135 Platinum Purchase Program edit In September 2010 Gawker reported that Zynga had set up a Platinum Purchase Program a private club for their top spenders allowing members to purchase virtual currency at favorable rates 136 Despite some bad publicity the program was considered a sound core business principle 137 The program shut down on October 31 2014 citation needed Viability edit Some journalists questioned the viability of Zynga s business model Ray Valdes questioned the long term prospects for Zynga saying that it would be difficult for the company to make new titles to replace old ones whose novelty is fading 25 Tom Bollich a former Zynga investor said that it is impossible to make a cheap viral game and that retaining customers is difficult 138 In an October 2011 article in The Wall Street Journal Ben Levisohn said that Zynga has issues that could limit its upside such as its dependence on Facebook and its reliance on a small percentage of users and a small number of games for most of its revenue 139 In July 2012 after announcing disappointing second quarter results some analysts speculated that the sale of virtual items may not be a long term viable business model 140 Analyst Richard Greenfield downgraded Zynga from buy to neutral 140 In 2012 Zynga took steps to turn its business around which included introducing new Web mobile and multiplayer games and developing a gambling game to be introduced outside the U S 141 142 The company worked to increase advertising revenues which were up to 45 percent in Q2 2012 compared to the previous quarter and increased to 170 percent year over year 143 In game sign up edit Through 2009 Zynga let players earn in game rewards for signing up for credit cards or for a video rental membership In November 2009 the company removed all lead generating ads relying instead on revenue generated by the 1 3 percent of players that pay for in game items Since then it began re introducing the ads back in but with controls to monitor the kinds of ads that appear 125 In early November 2009 it was estimated that about one third of Zynga s revenue came from companies that provide legitimate commercial offers such as trading Netflix memberships and marketing surveys for in game cash 144 Because of criticism and complaints that some ads were scams on November 2 2009 former CEO Mark Pincus said that Tatto Media a major offer provider that enrolled users into recurring cell phone subscriptions and the worst of the lead generator scam had already been removed from Zynga and was banned in addition to requiring providers to filter and police offers before posting to their networks 145 Corporate culture edit nbsp Zynga HQIn 2011 Zynga started to move employees to new headquarters located in San Francisco s South of Market district 146 Zynga s headquarters nicknamed The Dog House 147 features a coffee shop gaming arcade gym basketball court and wellness center 148 At its San Francisco headquarters Zynga Founder Pincus s goal was to create a playful gaming environment that evokes a fantasy land 147 Zynga employees also referred to as Zyngites enjoy perks such as free gourmet meals access to an in house nutritionist and personal training 149 Zynga operates as a meritocracy in which employees are encouraged to be and are compensated for being great entrepreneurs The company works hard to be a flat organization Pincus stated that Zynga is searching for leaders and they encourage employees to break the rules The company expects workers to fix what they are unhappy with thus making the workplace better for everyone 150 Pincus stated that Zynga is building a house that we want to live in He meets with new hires about every two weeks and speaks with them for about 90 minutes in an open question and answer format He discusses the company s values and he encourages the new employees to challenge those values 150 Women at Zynga launched in 2011 is an employee led resource group that focuses on empowering women to succeed and become leaders in their careers and communities especially within the tech space According to Stephanie Hess VP of Communications at Zynga who also leads Women at Zynga the group strives to attract hire and retain top female talent 151 Women at Zynga also organizes events of special interest to women 152 153 The Christian Science Monitor recognized the company s efforts to use a storytelling model to recognize the diversity of women employees 154 Zynga has a family first atmosphere and is kid friendly for child visitors The company has seasonal events such as a Halloween party to which employees bring their children Employees feel supported professionally as well as personally The company believes that allowing employees to be present in all parts of their life will lead to more productivity in the workplace and beyond Zynga also encourages flexibility and supports employees personal growth 153 The company also supports employees with infertility issues 155 Zynga offers mothers 26 weeks of paid maternity leave and fathers partners can take 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave The company also offers free on site gym and fitness classes free breakfast and lunch each day a shuttle service to the Bay Area Rapid Transit and CalTrain in San Francisco The company also has relaxation lounges and arcade and console games dry cleaning services on site and indoor bicycle parking Each of the different locations offer different benefits to a certain extent In general the company is highly dog friendly where Every day is bring your dog to work day Employees who own dogs can receive treats for them pet insurance and a dog park on the roof 156 There is also a Take as much time off as you need policy 157 The Blue Bottle Cafe offers free specialty coffee served by baristas 158 Zynga s culinary program is based on friends cooking for friends including the menu planning and cooking process 159 Prior to the company s 2011 IPO when Pincus was still CEO Zynga s corporate culture received some negative media attention for renegotiating the equity packages of four senior employees 160 Those employees were required to either give up part of their non vested stock or be fired 161 Although a San Francisco employment lawyer said in The Wall Street Journal that Zynga s actions would violate the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing no court has ruled on the issue since it has been rare for companies to demand non vested stock as a condition of continued employment 161 Pincus later explained that Zynga wanted to find them another position at the company versus just parting ways They had the option to leave and have a package as happened with some other leaders but we in addition to that offered them other positions at the company that came with different forward compensation 160 In November 2011 The New York Times reported that Zynga operates like a federation of city states with each of its games such as FarmVille and CityVille run by autonomous teams This culture reportedly fostered fierce internal competition and caused some employees to complain about long hours and stressful deadlines 162 Two former senior Zynga employees quoted anonymously by the Times speculated that Zynga s corporate culture caused the company to lose a bid to acquire mobile game company PopCap and nearly derailed its acquisition of MyMiniLife which later developed the technology that is the basis for FarmVille At least one Zynga employee said he planned to cash out and leave Zynga after the IPO 162 When asked about the criticisms Zynga had received for its workplace environment Pincus said the company strives to be a meritocracy 162 with a culture of leveling up through promotions Pincus s management philosophy is to turn people into CEOs encouraging employees to identify and fully own something really meaningful to the company 163 The CEO s philosophy is part of the Zynga meritocracy in which employees are rewarded for results Pincus told The New York Times The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued And if they see somebody else higher above them just because of a good resume or they see somebody else promoted who they don t think deserves it you re done 163 In February 2013 Chief Game Designer Brian Reynolds discussed company culture positively in a post for VentureBeat at the time of his exit from Zynga saying the capability to absorb and adapt to change quickly is one of the great strengths of Zynga s culture the true meaning of the motto and occasional battle cry Zynga Speed among other comments 164 In 2017 Zynga donated a large sum to the University of Southern California to support the study of social mobile games inclusive game production and advancing diversity in the industry 165 Recognition edit In 2017 Entrepreneur magazine recognized Zynga as one of 11 companies which offer benefits to employees with fertility issues 166 Huffington Post recognized Women at Zynga as a group that embodies the company s commitment to gender diversity 167 Zynga org editMain article Zynga org In 2009 Zynga started a nonprofit organization Zynga org in charge of incorporating charitable contributions into its games such as FarmVille As of 2015 Zynga org efforts have raised 20 million for international humanitarian relief efforts and philanthropic initiatives 168 Relationship with Facebook editOn July 18 2011 Zynga filed an addendum to its Form S 1 detailing its relationship with Facebook including the 2010 five year agreement to use Facebook credits exclusively 169 170 On October 11 2011 Zynga announced plans to create their own platform on which users can play the company s games It was Zynga s first major step away from the social media giant 171 At one point during 2011 Zynga made up 19 percent of Facebook s revenue partly because of the special mutually beneficial relationship between the two companies 172 In November 2012 Facebook ended its special agreement with Zynga Effective March 31 2013 Zynga was bound by the standard Facebook Platform policies 173 In May 2017 Zynga launched Words with Friends on Facebook s newly launched platform Instant Games on Facebook s Messenger instant messaging app 174 Owned studios editHeadquarters edit In the fall of 2010 Zynga signed a rental agreement for 270 000 square feet 25 000 m2 of office space at the site of former Sega offices 175 In 2012 the company purchased the entire building with about 407 000 square feet of total space for 228 million The building was reported to be worth about 500 million in 2016 176 177 In 2022 Zynga relocated its headquarters to San Mateo California 178 6 Active studios edit Name Description Date Acquired established FootnoteNaturalMotion offices in Brighton and London Acquired Boss Alien in 2014 when Zynga bought NaturalMotion for a company record of 527 million NaturalMotion hadpurchased Boss Alien in the summer of 2012 2014 179 180 181 Zynga Chicago Zynga acquired Spooky Cool Labs June 2013 182 Zynga ATX Formerly MarketZero April 2011 183 Zynga Austin Formerly Challenge Games June 2010 184 Zynga Eugene Formerly Buzz Monkey Software June 2012 185 Zynga India Bangalore India February 2010 186 Zynga Ireland 2011 187 Zynga Toronto Formerly Five Mobile July 2011 188 Zynga Turkey Zynga acquired Peak Games casual card portfolio in 2017 November 2017 189 Zynga San DiegoFormer studios edit Name Description Date Acquired Established Date Closed FootnotesOMGPop Draw Something creators March 2012 June 2013 190 191 Floodgage Entertainment March 2011 October 2012 192 193 Wild Needle A casual games company that makes games which appeal to women girls May 2012 194 Zynga with Friends Formerly Newtoy Inc based in McKinney Texas November 2010 June 2013 195 196 197 Zynga Boston Formerly Conduit Labs August 2010 October 2012 193 Zynga China Formerly XPD Media based in Beijing May 2010 February 2015 198 199 Zynga Dallas Formerly Bonfire Studios October 2010 June 2013 200 196 Zynga Germany Formerly Dextrose AG based in Frankfurt September 2010 201 Zynga East Based in Baltimore Maryland May 2009 February 2013 202 Zynga Japan Formerly Unoh Games based in Tokyo August 2010 January 2013 203 204 Zynga Los Angeles February 2010 June 2013 205 206 207 Zynga New York Formerly Area Code January 2011 June 2013 205 206 Page 44 Studios September 2011 208 Zynga Seattle October 2010 January 2014 209 210 Rising Tide Games September 2015 211 Zindagi Games February 2016 212 NaturalMotion Oxford January 2014 October 2017 181 Reception and controversies editThis article s criticism or controversy section may compromise the article s neutrality Please help rewrite or integrate negative information to other sections through discussion on the talk page May 2013 Spam concerns edit Many of Zynga s games involve players posting messages to non players often for in game benefits Many non players have notably complained about such communications created by those games that appear to them as spammy Peter Jamison described Zynga s communications as a deluge of unwanted gifts or requests for neighborly help 138 Facebook groups created to express displeasure regarding overexposure of Zynga s games attracted millions of members 125 As a result of this Facebook modified their application developers policy to prevent applications from sending messages to news feeds of friends or submitting updates to the notifications bar 213 214 Kotaku attributed the removal of Facebook notifications to a decline of users of Zynga games in April and May 2010 215 Intellectual property infringement edit Zynga has been accused several times of copying game concepts of popular games by competing developers 216 217 The launch of Mafia Wars sparked a lawsuit from the makers of Mob Wars 218 An attorney for Psycho Monkey the creators of Mob Wars said that in making Mafia Wars Zynga copied virtually every important aspect of the game 219 The suit was settled out of court for 7 9 million 220 An Ars Technica column said that Zynga s Cafe World and Playfish s Restaurant City were nearly identical Cafe World was released six months after Restaurant City Its gameplay design graphics avatars and even in game items are almost identical to the ones in Restaurant City 221 In addition journalists have remarked that Zynga s FarmVille is similar to Farm Town another Zynga game with Peter Jamison calling it uncannily similar 138 219 In September 2010 SF Weekly reported that an employee recalled Mark Pincus advising him to copy what Zynga s competitors do and do it until you get their numbers 138 NimbleBit founder Ian Marsh has accused Zynga of copying its award winning Tiny Tower game to create Dream Heights 222 223 Within a week Buffalo Studios alleged that its game Bingo Blitz was copied by Zynga in making Zynga Bingo 224 Pincus responded by saying that tower building games have existed since SimTower 1994 and that Zynga uses mechanics and ideas developed throughout the history of video games to create the best in market games He added that Bingo Blitz has similarities to the discontinued Zynga game Poker Blitz 225 In response Marsh argued that other tower games like SimTower and Tower Bloxx are substantially different from Tiny Tower and Dream Heights and that Zynga copied Tiny Tower s core gameplay mechanics and rules and tutorial steps 226 Inside Social Games writer Pete Davison said that although Zynga s The Ville is not a complete clone of The Sims Social it was very similar 227 Zynga founder Mark Pincus has dismissed the criticisms saying that competing video game makers have always released similar titles for each genre of game 125 The managing director of Lightspeed Venture Partners Jeremy Liew said that creating similar competing games has always been part of the game industry 219 Following Zynga s January 2012 release of Hidden Chronicles Paul Tassi of Forbes wrote that Zynga refuses to innovate in any way and is merely a follower when it comes to ideas and game design 228 In September 2009 Zynga was threatened with legal action by Nissan for using their trademarks in the game Street Racing Zynga subsequently renamed and changed the thumbnail images of all cars that were branded Nissan and Infiniti to Sindats and Fujis with the thumbnails changed 229 At the time they also renamed and redesigned automobiles depicted as being made by GM Ferrari Lamborghini Saab and others In September 2009 Zynga initiated trade secrets lawsuits against Playdom and 22 other rivals 230 including Green Patch which Playdom acquired in November 2009 These lawsuits were finally settled in November 2010 231 In October 2010 Zynga was criticized on Hacker News 232 and other social media sites for having filed a patent application 233 relating to the ability to purchase virtual currency for cash on gambling and other gaming sites Commentators said that significant prior art exists for the concept 234 In January 2011 Techdirt reported that Zynga sent a cease and desist letter to Blingville alleging trademark infringement for its use of the letters ville in the name of a proposed Facebook game Blingville filed a suit for declaratory judgment that it did not infringe on a Zynga trademark 235 As reported in Gamasutra Jay Monahan of Zynga responded by saying that Blingville s use of the name BlingVille is an obvious attempt to capitalize on the fame and goodwill associated with Zynga s family of ville games which includes FarmVille and CityVille 236 In November 2011 Inside Mobile Apps wrote that Zynga s lawyers demanded that mobile game developer Latman Interactive abandon its trademark registration for the game Quackville 237 Night Owl Games has also filed a lawsuit for declaratory judgment that its game Dungeonville does not infringe any Zynga trademarks after Zynga protested Night Owl s registration of the Dungeonville trademark 238 In May 2012 Zynga sued Kobojo for trademark infringement for calling one of its games PyramidVille 239 240 In October that year Zynga and Kobojo settled the suit with neither party making any payment as part of the settlement 241 On May 20 2011 it was reported that The Learning Company owners of The Oregon Trail trademark filed a trademark infringement suit against Zynga which was planning an Oregon Trail expansion to FrontierVille 242 The Learning Company had previously contacted Zynga about an Oregon Trail game on Facebook but Zynga declined 243 On May 24 Games com writer Brandy Shaul wrote that Zynga was dropping the Oregon Trail name and soliciting new names for the expansion 244 The name of the expansion became Pioneer Trail In March 2015 Zynga announced it was closing six games including Pioneer Trail 245 In August 2012 Electronic Arts EA sued Zynga for copyright infringement alleging that Zynga s The Ville copied expressive elements of EA s The Sims Social 246 Zynga s counsel responded by alleging that EA s SimCity Social bears an uncanny resemblance to Zynga s CityVille 246 The litigants settled their suit in February 2013 247 248 The agreement stipulated that each side would bear its own legal costs and drop the allegations 249 On October 14 2012 Zynga filed a lawsuit against a former general manager Alan Patmore for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets The suit claimed Patmore misappropriated trade secrets and was in breach of contract 250 The suit was settled in September 2013 251 Insider trading allegations edit In July 2012 a class action lawsuit was filed against Zynga alleging that Mark Pincus and some other insiders were allowed to sell shares before disappointing Q2 results were revealed 252 253 The lawsuit was settled in August 2015 for 23 million 254 In March 2015 a district judge ruled that plaintiffs can pursue a lawsuit against Zynga on claims executives inflated the company s value prior to its 2011 initial public offering by concealing weaknesses in its R amp D pipeline of new games numbers of users and their purchasing patterns and other key metrics 255 Other legal issues edit In late May 2010 the Norwegian Consumer Council filed a complaint to the Data Inspectorate regarding breaches of the Data Protection Act 256 In August 2011 the Data Inspectorate concluded that Facebook is not under Norwegian jurisdiction since the company is established in Ireland and not in Norway The complaint was therefore forwarded to the Irish commissioner of data protection 257 In August 2010 the San Francisco city attorney s office complained about the firm s guerrilla marketing campaign for its Mafia Wars game that pasted fake money on city sidewalks calling it vandalism 258 Davis Elen Advertising took responsibility for the ad campaign and agreed to pay the city of San Francisco 45 000 in fines for illegal marketing tactics 259 260 Data breach edit In September 2019 a Pakistani hacker that goes by the name Gnosticplayers claimed to have hacked into Zynga s database of Words with Friends players and gained access to the 218 million accounts registered there While Zynga affirmed the hack and that the information revealed included names emails Login IDs hashed and salted passwords SHA 1 password reset tokens Zynga account IDs and connections to Facebook and other social media services they did not state how many accounts were affected but would contact those players with affected accounts The data breach tracking website Have I Been Pwned affirmed in December 2019 that more than 173 million accounts were affected 261 262 263 Mobile games editGames Facebook Mobile PlatformBoggle With Friends nbsp No nbsp YesChess With Friends nbsp No nbsp YesClumsy Ninja nbsp No nbsp YesCSR Racing nbsp No nbsp YesCSR Racing 2 nbsp No nbsp YesCSR Racing Classics nbsp No nbsp YesCrazy Cake Swap nbsp No nbsp YesCrazy Kitchen nbsp No nbsp YesCrosswords With Friends nbsp No nbsp YesDraw Something nbsp No nbsp YesDrop 7 nbsp No nbsp YesEmpires amp Allies nbsp No nbsp YesFarmVille nbsp Yes nbsp NoFarmVille 2 nbsp Yes nbsp NoFarmVille 2 Country Escape nbsp No nbsp YesFarmVille 2 Tropic Escape nbsp Yes nbsp YesFarmVille 3 Animals nbsp No nbsp YesFarmVille Harvest Swap nbsp Yes nbsp YesFarmVille Tropic Escape nbsp No nbsp YesGame of Thrones Slots Casino nbsp Yes nbsp YesGems With Friends nbsp No nbsp YesHanging With Friends nbsp No nbsp YesHarry Potter Puzzles amp Spells nbsp No nbsp YesHit It Rich Casino Slots nbsp Yes nbsp YesMatching With Friends nbsp No nbsp YesMerge Magic nbsp No nbsp YesPetVille Princess Bride Slots nbsp Yes nbsp YesSpeed Guess Something nbsp No nbsp YesSpin It Rich nbsp Yes nbsp YesWhat s the Phrase nbsp No nbsp YesWilly Wonka Slots nbsp Yes nbsp YesWizard of Oz Magic Match nbsp Yes nbsp YesWizard of Oz Slots nbsp Yes nbsp YesWonka s World of Candy nbsp No nbsp YesWord Streak With Friends Formerly Scramble With Friends nbsp Yes nbsp YesWords With Friends nbsp Yes nbsp YesWords With Friends 2 nbsp No nbsp YesWords On Tour nbsp No nbsp YesYummy Gummy nbsp No nbsp YesZynga Poker nbsp Yes nbsp YesZynga Poker Classic nbsp No nbsp YesBoard games editIn 2012 Zynga in conjunction with Hasbro released several physical board games based on the various properties in the Zynga game library These games were released under the Hasbro imprint Hasbro Gaming As of 2012 Zynga s list of available games includes board game versions of Draw Something a CityVille edition of Monopoly Words with Friends and several kids Animal Games based on FarmVille 264 265 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