Josh Constine: "Our sources tell us that multiple OMGPOP team members independently tried to buy back the OMGPOP.com site, games, and intellectual property. These team members wanted whatever Zynga was willing to sell, even if that didn’t include the more valuable Draw Something assets or user data. Even more employees offered to work on OMGPOP.com for free. However, Zynga said this would all take too much legal work and wouldn’t agree to sell anything.
Instead, Zynga laid off OMGPOP’s employees, and today said the whole OMGPOP.com site will go dark September 30th."
The acquisition of Zynga by Take-Two Interactive might become the video game industry's version of the AOL Time Warner merger.
I have to give props for the use of Electric Boogaloo reference. I don't think many young folk will even know what that is.
On topic... wasn't that where Don Mattrick went after leaving XB?
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You know your a huge douche when your too big of a douche to work at Microsoft. That company churns out more douches than Vagisil.
Why were they wasting their money on a site.
They could be buying Xbox 360s with that money!
It's people like Matrick and Kotick (ha similar names) that are poisoning the industry. Opportunistic, heartless capitalists who live in the moment and care only about profit.
And Dom Mattrick strikes again.
Don Mattrick is such a prick, I hope Zynga burns down.