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Zynga was founded in July 2007 with the vision of connecting the world through games. Since then they have dedicated themselves to making fun and social games for people to play with their friends and have become the largest developer of social games on the web in the process. Zynga games provide a platform for players to express themselves and form deep social connections with their friends. With a catalogue that ranges from casino games to role playing games, their games can be found on most social networks, and on the iPhone.


Zynga was named after Zinga, The founder's 13-year old American Bulldog who sadly passed away in late 2008. Zinga’s name came from Enzinga, the Swahili name for an African Warrior Princess.

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Controversies Edit

The launch of Mafia Wars sparked a lawsuit (which is still unsettled) from the makers of Mob Wars.

In September 2009 Zynga was threatened with legal action by Nissan for use of their trademarks in the game Street Racing. Zynga subsequently renamed and changed the thumbnail images of all cars that were branded Nissan and Infiniti to "Sindats" and "Fujis" with the thumbnails changed marginally.

On October 31, 2009, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch accused Zynga of knowingly using lead generation offer scams, such as those involving a recurring subscription, stating that such offers made up a the third of Zynga's revenue. Arrington also alleged that Facebook was complicit in this. [1] On November 2, 2009, CEO Mark Pincus announced a reform in its offers: Tatto Media, a major offer provider that enrolled users into recurring cell phone subscriptions, would be banned, all mobile offers would be removed, and that offer providers would be required to pre-screen offers. Five days later, Arrington reported that, when logged into his account, he did not see the ads. However, when logged into a friend's account, the ads reappeared.

A few days after Techcrunch broke the scam story, Zynga's most recent Facebook game FishVille, was also temporarily taken offline by Facebook for advertising violations. According to Zynga Fishville had amassed 875,000 users within two days of launch. A release from Facebook on its reasons for taking the game offline read that "FishVille will remain suspended until Facebook is satisfied that Zynga demonstrates compliance with Facebook restrictions — as well as Zynga’s own restrictions — on the ads it offers users."[2] [3]

Company Information Edit

Billing: http://zynga.com/support or please call 866-820-2321
Advertisers: Advertising@zynga.com
Business Development: Businessdevelopment@zynga.com
Press: press@zynga.com
Jobs: http://www.zynga.com/jobs

E-mail support: http://zynga.custhelp.com/app/ask

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Discontinued Games Edit

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YoVille- July 23, 2008 Edit

YoVille is the largest virtual world game on social networks at that time.

MyMiniLife- August 14th, 2009 Edit

MyMiniLife
MyMiniLife allows users to create their own personalized spaces and homes using styles ranging from that of a budding metropolis to a tropical island getaway. Players can then, of course, expand their creations through the purchase of items using the company’s virtual currency.

The technology was quickly put to use in its hit game FarmVille.

GoPets - November 3rd, 2009 Edit

GoPets
GoPets is an online world that revolves around 3D virtual pets. You can adopt a cat or dog, and design it’s very own 3D virtual land on which it lives. A GoPet can be dressed up in fancy clothing, eat exotic foods, and interact with the different items that you buy it.

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  • 74.50.251.92

    i wish rollar coaste rkindom was still on

    by A Wikia contributor
  • 116.93.141.49

    Freedom Fighter! You mastered the Freedom Eagle. . HOW COME IT SAYS I CANNOT COLLECT THIS ITEM. MAFIA WARS IS STARTING TO SUCK

    by A Wikia contributor
  • 58.69.85.54

    have a question too zynga.. were is the manhattan..?? i can't access/enter .. help me..

    by A Wikia contributor
  • 78.2.17.99

    plis send I send back http://lotto.zynga.com?ref=fbt&zid=31108172538&h=81a0

    by A Wikia contributor
  • 64.202.152.155

    Zynga is in the money-making business...its US the players who want to buy what items we want to,as this is an addictive Game(Mafia Wars) alone...so,as u say in the united /states,and i am from Canada,its free enterprise and u r entitled to ,i forget the exact saying in the /constitution but basically...making money anyways u can within the laws...like for eg...u couldnt sell Alcohol as the Gov. has control over that,which WAS a free enterprise,...unfair I would say..& u cant sell or even market anatural substance with great properties as healing pain or helping CaNCER patience eat at least in their last days,what a crime,but the Gov. wont take a chance to control this,so y the hell not a Company or something,as its naturally grown,& half the jails in the worl;d r in there cuz of a Natural flower,...Doesnt make sense eh,anyways,there is money to be made,as i'm NOT a marijuana smoker,but i would still go for it to be a Legal substance as it is alot less potent than Alcohol,etc..as Holland is doing very well with their laws..why couldnt it work here in North & South America & anywhere for that matter! we have everything backwards in this part of the world,big time for sure,as these OLD Politicians will go &then its our turn to make History & a good History at that! So as my point ent in many directions,WHY CANT "ZYNGA" do what it is good at,without all the greedy companies who want to sue cuz they r Jealous of another company making tones of $$ making simple games for our entertainment,which isnt hurting any1!! you go ZYNGA and do what u do best...YOU MAKE YOR GAMES AND BE A PROUD COMPANY...DONT LET THESE SO-CALLED LAWERS OR LAW Corp. throw u off yor ability to make money,just cuz they want a piece of the action,as u r probably Taxed to the nuts & they & more Companies still want a piece of the pie...DONT GIVE IN ZYNGA...You have a great thing here,&you guys did it from scratch...GREAT JOB Zynga...Now,i hope i am NOT gonna lose my Account for sticking up for Zynga,as my account has been active for about a YEAR & 5 months or so..almost from the start of Mafia Wars...they did,Zynga that is,took away my very first account as a mistake & said they would reactivate it as it was a mistake,but never ever did...but i soon started another 1 as i went 2 or 3 days without my account,which was a lvl 410,so i wanted to continue to keep playing,.thank God i did that,as Zynga forgot,loll, to give it back to me,& i was taken off their forum for all my letters of complaints & also for asking them too many question,etc..but i'm still pissed off about that,BUT I am Still a Zynga Fan!! GO ZYNGA GO!...WOOHOOOOOO!!!! Sincerely; Stormin Norman...aka...Jeff Norman...email for account that was deactivated for no reason at all,as they told me(Zynga)was jeff_norman33@yahoo.com..now they took away over 300 GF points from me over 2 months ago and other things,lol...wow...but i hope i get something back as i never cheat,etc...this account is...jeff_norman33@hotmail.com....i sure hope i can get justice here...but once again,noone is perfect and they have Billions probably to look after,so plz consider that players...thx Zynga for making GREAT games,especially MAFIA WARS...YEEHAAAAA!!! Stormin Norman!!

    by A Wikia contributor
  • Shadowolf19

    @ Anonymous user 00:47, June 19, 2010

    How do You Scam People, by giving Them Free Gifts, which aren't only FREE, but are Optional. In fact, ALL of the Marketplace Items are optional, too. It's not Zynga, making Your Life difficult, it's People who WANT to buy the Items... Those People, are allowing You, to play for Free... As are the People Advertising... So, I don't think I agree with You, on what You're saying, unless I've misunderstood You, Somewhere.

    ... However, Zynga does seem to release a lot of Games, that seem VERY similar to other Games.... If They keep it up, it wouldn't surprise Me, if they can't get out of the Legal side... Coincidences don't happen, a Million times over, do They?

    by Shadowolf19
  • 96.61.42.232

    Zynga is a scamming company which rips off not only their users by offering crap "freebie" offer, but also rips of other developers by COMPLETELY stealing their ideas!

    by A Wikia contributor
  • 96.61.42.232

    Anyone notice that Treasure Isle looks exactly the same as another game, Treasure Madness which came out months before zynga;s POS ripoff?

    BTW< i just got banned form the Zynga Forums for posting this, happened to ctrl+v it...

    "Hey, just a note that I had to remove your post from the Treasure Isle Discussion forum, as it was considered advertising for a competing game. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!"

    From the mod that deleted this....

    How is it advertising when Zynga is completely ripping off and copying another game created by different developers?!?!

    by A Wikia contributor
  • The Bob

    Many thanks for this info. As a mafia wars addict who has gotten pretty far in the game in about a year playing (level 1098, A&D combined @130,000) without every buying a reward point or anything else, I think I've learned a few tricks. Some of Zynga's history makes me wonder if they aren't mafia themselves.

    by The Bob
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