GameZebo: When Mafia Wars 2 hit Facebook last month, it was heralded as a tremendous step forward for the franchise. Zynga’s first true sequel was light years ahead of its predecessor, replacing the text-driven RPG format of yesteryear with a slick, stylish 3D world to explore and a whole new style of gameplay. Mafia Wars Shakedown, however, fails to reflect any of this progress.
After laying off 100 employees in October, the company announced that they were “sunsetting” 13 older games from their library and reducing investment in “The Ville”. That has come to fruition this month, culminating in yesterday’s surprising shut down of the popular PetVille and Mafia Wars 2.
Zynga has learned you can't make metric shit ton of "ville" clone garbage games and stuff their pockets forever ? :D
Don't understand why a company like Zynga need a hundred employees in the first place.
I know people will be uposet with this, but another failure in the free to play market.
