{"id":7696,"date":"2010-04-02T16:51:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T21:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7696"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:10:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:10:55","slug":"experienced-points-zynga-and-the-rise-of-the-new-gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7696","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Zynga and the Rise of the New Gamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name of Zynga is somewhat accursed among mainstream gamers right now.  I think it&#8217;s sort of like fighting for thirty years to make a successful family restaurant based on authentic Mexican food, and then waking up one day to find out you have one tenth the business of Taco Friggin&#8217; Bell. I couldn&#8217;t fully cover the subject in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/7373-Experienced-Points-Zynga-and-the-Rise-of-the-New-Gamer\">this week&#8217;s article<\/a> (and I had to leave out the bit about Zynga&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zynga#Controversies\">shady business practices<\/a>) but seeing the armies of &#8220;casual social gamers&#8221; finally appear in the same venue as &#8220;hardcore gamers&#8221; for the first time is a really interesting process.  <\/p>\n<p>The hate coming from the hardcore crowd to the Farmville \/ Mafia Wars types is intense.  Well, nearly as intense as the hate that the various console devotees have for the other platforms.  So, I guess they&#8217;ll fit right in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of Zynga is somewhat accursed among mainstream gamers right now. I think it&#8217;s sort of like fighting for thirty years to make a successful family restaurant based on authentic Mexican food, and then waking up one day to find out you have one tenth the business of Taco Friggin&#8217; Bell. I couldn&#8217;t fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}