>It views players as weak-minded cash cows; and it views its developers as expendable, replaceable tools to create the machines that milk those cows.
>Because the company's values are completely opposed to my own values, professionally and creativel
>An evil company is trying to get rich quick, and has no regard for the harm they're doing along the way
Why does he not give any examples of how Zynga is evil? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to defend them. I honestly don't even know and now I'm curious. The only thing I know about Zynga is from their stock revoking mess that occurred around the IPO.
Well, "evil" is fairly subjective and often times depends on what side of the table you are on, as I think he points out in the article.
As for specific reasons why they could be viewed as such, there are plenty out there already. Here's an AMA with a previous engineer that doesn't paint a pretty picture:
>Because the company's values are completely opposed to my own values, professionally and creativel
>An evil company is trying to get rich quick, and has no regard for the harm they're doing along the way
Why does he not give any examples of how Zynga is evil? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to defend them. I honestly don't even know and now I'm curious. The only thing I know about Zynga is from their stock revoking mess that occurred around the IPO.