That was my Facebook post this morning: Mafia Wars' CEO Brags about Scamming Users.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/11/12/0512235 ""Mark Pincus, CEO of the company that brought us Mafia Wars, says: 'I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues right away. I mean, we gave our users poker chips if they do...Read more Slashdot | Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users Source: games.slashdot.org Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users -- article related to Index, Social Networks, and Games. "I knew that i wanted to control my destiny, so I knew I needed revenues, right, fucking, now. Like I needed revenues now. So I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I dont know, I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it. *laughs* We did anything possible just to just get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business So control your destiny. So that was a big lesson, controlling your business. So by the time we raised money we were profitable." They guy is actually boasting about it lol :-) But I guess now he's a millionaire soooo.....? 2009/11/12 Justin Scott <[email protected]>: > > Sounds like the same thing that those games on Facebook do (Mafia Wars, > FarmVille, etc.). The things that those games do to get you signed up for > other products and services are downright fraudulent in some cases. > > -Justin Sco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:307806 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
