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Re: Zynga launches Facebook game developer platform, which might prove valuable

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Re: Zynga launches Facebook game developer platform, which might prove valuable

Rick Morris — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:35:29 -0000

I was playing on a private table (mirage) with a buddy, and the table froze. I had over 10M chips (in account) while I was playing, and the table froze, so we left the table, and then all 10M of my chips were missing from my account. I have tried and tried again to contact/submit tickets to Zynga about this issue with no response. Now I know it's just a game, but when you play hard to accumilate 10M chips, and they disappear in 10 seconds, it's not very cool. Also, if you are going to have a gaming site or a website that is of this statue, have customer service tech's that can assist people with glitches ect.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get my chips back, or who to contact?

Thanks!

Re: Zynga launches Facebook game developer platform, which might prove valuable

Zach Allia — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:55:17 -0000

Oh and you can see the bar live in Fight Club right now, and probably some of the other network apps.

Re: Zynga launches Facebook game developer platform, which might prove valuable

Zach Allia — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:21:02 -0000

Patrick - It makes a difference as the Hub application is not the marketing spot, it is the bar which we'll see popping up soon in all of SGN's games.

Re: Zynga launches Facebook game developer platform, which might prove valuable

Zach Allia — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:19:52 -0000

Eric - Right, only 200 DAU on the application but that isn't where the marketing comes from. It will come from a bar as well in all of their games. So that 200 DAU metric has nothing to do with the SGN bar. The Hub is for centralizing users and friends stats, if a user or developer wants to see that information.

Re: Zynga launches Facebook game developer platform, which might prove valuable

Eric Rosser Eldon — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:31:23 -0000

Zach,

My information on SGN's Gaming Hub came from Facebook's own statistics, as I linked to, above. My point about the Hub is that since it launched, only less than two hundred people have added the application. From my understanding, the Hub is a central component of what SGN is offering to Facebook game app developers.

Re: Zynga launches Facebook game developer platform, which might prove valuable

Patrick — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:26:35 -0000

Zach, what difference does that make to developers who are looking for distribution? And where is this SGN bar? I've seen several different little cross promotion bars on their apps while searching or it but have found nothing like what zynga is offering.

Would you mind linking to their third party dev bar?

Re: Zynga launches Facebook game developer platform, which might prove valuable

Zach Allia — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:19:38 -0000

Eric - You have the SGN Hub all wrong. You say "the application itself has less than 200 daily active users as of today — not much of a place to advertise your application." The point of the Hub is just for centralized data for those that want it, SGN markets third-party developers through a bar just as Zynga plans on doing.

Where did this information come from?