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More Exodus From Zynga: Words With Friends Co-Creators

Posted on Friday, October 5 @ 10:30:17 Eastern by Keri_Honea

Brothers Paul and David Bettner, the creators of the With Friends games (namely Words with Friends and Chess with Friends), have left Zynga, the game dev conglomerate that has made a habit of either buying mobile app companies or copying their material. Neither has said where they are going, if anywhere specific.

The Bettners are just part of a steady stream of higher ups leaving Zynga, including Wilson Griegel, the chief revenue officer of OMGPop, Zynga's chief technical officer of infrastructure, Zynga chief creative officer, and Zynga chief operating officer. On top of it all, Zynga has been dealing with insider trading and copyright infringement litigation as well as a potential quarterly loss of between $90 and $150 million.

To say that Zynga is in trouble would be putting it mildly. Considering their habits when it's come to mobile and even Facebook games, is it really all that surprising that they're going south?

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  • 213EDD
    213EDD

    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
    Good on you, Paul and David Bettner. You made the right choice
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
    Bankruptcy-ville.






    (THIS IS NOT SPAM!)
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
    The mimic dragon Zynga is ripe for the slaying.
  • ballabert
    ballabert

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
    uhhhh not to be a dick or anything but these guys didn't CREATE anything, its SCRABBLE, thats all, just a different name

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