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  • "controlling my destiny"...why does it usually involve one turning into a amoral ahole?

  • google this: zynga-to-employees-give-back-o­ur-stock-or-youll-be-fired/

  • where was this video filmed?

  • What a horrible man, I hope he and Kotick meet each other...in the form of a fiery wreck that leaves them dead. Men like this stifle creativity to appease stockhounds instead of turning out a genuinely decent product.

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  • what a shlong

  • Mark Pinkass is a fucking Nazi and should be strung up by a tree by his balls and then beaten with water hoses. Why don't you fix some of these God damn glitches instead of updating so much shit into these games ? Fixing glitches doesn't pay as well as your updates so you just let problems sit. I hope you get cancer in your ass and die ! NEVER FORGET SCAMVILLE !!!!

  • This man is a cunt. A total fucking cunt.

  • i am so glad theres xbox and wow far better companys imo my 2nd account was banned and i haven't been on in months maybe i didn't pay the train or this guy so i get banned for that if anything this is fraud and if noone noticed its illegal. too me money's, money recession or not i'll make it back so to me its just meh they will just go on that list of ppl i wont do business with in the future.

  • cry all you want. Zynga makes games most of you pieces of shit are playing and are still crying about it.

    don't like it? stop playing their games. Simple.

  • @LOLinFEVER How pathetic do you need to be, to be an overly defensive fanboy, for a FACEBOOK game host. My god, if you're going to ride the coattails, and verbally dry hump people more successful than you are, find someone better than Farm-fucking-ville.

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  • @ChildrenofAmory actually you're point is supposed to be 100% truthful, if it wasn't for the fact I actually don't play Zynga games nor any other social networking-based game.

    I just run numbers and further analysis (non-biased ofc) and it all points out on people complaining on a company that's making millions on their games who seem to be somewhat entertaining.

    Also, he explains something many other successful companies did in their early stages. So idk about the 'oh he scamming' argument..

  • @LOLinFEVER Mark Pincus has openly admitted that he has scammed and that Zynga has used shady business practices, for which they received some trouble and are still fighting off a bad reputation

  • @brief1226 a zwinky bar is not a scam, it's a VERY annoying advert for a much more annoying and useless game.

    If it's about the other game that looks like Farmville, then believe me...that shit has nothing against REAL company scams.

    Trust me, once you're in the buisness world (the one Microsoft, Apple, Sony, and many other companies participate in), Mark Pincus looks like an amateur

  • @LOLinFEVER Who said anything about a zwinky bar? Not me, I wasn't even referring to any info in this vid...Actually, Farmville is the one that looks like its predecessors, so I am not sure which one you are talking about...I agree, Pincus is an amateur, and apparently not well respected, but they (some) will continue to do business with him as long as there is money to be made, but idk...I don't even think it's worth it-his "shareholder mentality" is too extreme imo

  • Fuckin' stupidest FUCK I've EVER RUN INTO. He LOST HIS OWN COMPANY NOW!

  • This guy is a 1st class pr*ck IMHO...

  • I will not leave stone unturn until justice is done. After all , this is just a game for people to enjoy and pass time yet Zynga take it for granted and use his jungle law to become a BLOOD SUCKER on innocent player. I will proceed to put on press all over Asia about Zynga poor cheating policy. I put it to you that Zynga is a " money face organisation ".

  • In Yoville games we encounter many scammer, so i upgrate my software to another level to protect my player, but instead the REAL FUCKING SCAMMER is ZYNGA itself. Zynga use his own jungle rule of law to cheat player whenever they reach a sudden level of success. Because Zynga game involve REAL CASH, they take it for granted to delete or ban player without reason so i went to file a police report and later will send to The American Empassy.

    

  • zynga are already taking away all the free offers for like yocash oh and they ban for no reason and i done something so they changed there tos and banned me for something and there banning for no reason they don't even investigate properly and they also like to accuse people and ban them without proof and they don't tel you what rules you have broken so there fucked up

  • Someone should kill this greedy Pincuntus fucker. With fire.

  • He should be shooted with no mercy,about 500 shoots all over his fucking stinky body.

    Fucking die in hell!!!

    PS : How can the people be laughing at it ?

    beh ,if it was me,he would got his ass beaten up like never before.

  • I have yet to play a Zynga game. I'm going to make sure it stays that way. People like Pincus are the very reason gaming is dying. It's going to be a slow, painful death, so remember when you harvest your tomatoes in FarmVille, or kill another player in Mafia Wars, just remember: YOU helped.

  • Scum ... but now rich scum because ppl just gotta have their games. Zynga lacks morals. He created stock in order to be sure he can control his company? and THIS COMPANY IS TRYING TO GO PUBLIC!

  • Scum ... but now rich scum because ppl just gotta have their games. Zynga lacks morals.

  • Fuck Zynga in its stupid ass. If you are playing Texas Hold Em with a complete asshole who goes all in and throw tissue at everyone, that person will almost ALWAYS win. Zynga favors the assholes and douchebags. Like its creator, I guess.

  • @donniedarkodevotte ikr and they keep taking away poker chips off people and also removing peoples yocash so they buy more

  • @TheZachoftheglen1

    I don't understand 90% of what you wrote, but I do agree with you on the motherfuckers stealing your chips so you have to buy more. I had over 30 million and they took away almost every chip because they claimed I was selling them. They steal your chips and make false accusations. I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER play Zynga poker. EVER!

  • i only go on to get chips and give them to friends

  • The sad part is, I don't even think there is one hater in that audience. Like the audience is made up of mindless drones who are devoid of thinking for themselves, to allow someone like this guy to say what he has said. He could openly admit that "Hey, these games only out to get your money."

    And the drones would just sit there and laugh it off like it's a joke before continuing on with their lives being repeatedly raped.

    I'm not complaining on Zynga, because I have not wasted a dime on them.

  • Remember the Saying "What goes around, Comes Around" That's Fine! Steal Peoples Money , while Maliciously Destroying their Computers because .... what He will get is maybe a Painful and Long lasting Sickness Later or.......... Who Knows. But it will always come back on you. Just as it will on Fakebooks Zuckerburg for Stealing and then allowing this b/s to take place. I knew of this B/S but I feel for the people whom have lost Millions because of these Low Lives Pincus & Zuckerburg.

  • Yup, there are alot of naive people out there just waiting for something to easy_to_use and consume em!.

  • thats capitalism baby!!!!

    though i still find it hard that zynga is worth $600 million dollors for the crappy games they make

  • Just wow..... " I made money anyway possible...." Proud to be an ass and steal peoples info for his own gains.

  • Maybe Zynga would be more customer oriented if someone circulated the email addresses of the venture capital firms financing them & then the VCs rec'd a deluge of customer complaints about Zynga's total lack of concern for what matters most- the end user.

    If I had cash vested & saw the all of complaints, tactics, & behavior they engage in; I'd pull the plug. I bet if Zynga got a lil free press in the WSJ by bombarding an editor's email w/ complaints, they'd pull their head out.

    ~eMT

  • all forms of business aims to rid of the people of their hard earned money by substandard products and services that borders on fraud (and sometimes harassment) . this guy is as greedy as any other businessman. but at least he did admit doing awful things to his customers.

    now i'm thinking of payback

  • Rat faced jew fuck

  • welcome to capitalism.... And at the end we look up on these pricks.

  • Know why this guy seems to be so removed from what he is saying? Because he is, they all are.Every single large company out there has some form of dishonesty inside it.You are an IDIOT if you believe ANY of them care about the people. He is no different than a CEO of any company.Ya'll make this guy out to be so bad and evil, but they are ALL like this.They want us to be consumers by any means. It is the way the world works-yet this guy outrages and shocks you? Some Zynga games are fun.Chill.

  • @chylzone Show me the bad side of Valve, then. Go on, I'm waiting. Or could it be that you are just full of shit?

    Also, just because most CEO's out there are assholes that doesn't mean that you have the right to be one. The fact that you accept this bullshit shows how much of a tool you are.

  • @FeanorBR Valve, Blizzard... there are a lot of neat game studios out there. Zynga is just a tool to extort money out of addicts.

  • Pincus is a snake... he would sell his own mother for a few more million daily active users.

  • Zynga is not as altruistic as they pretend to be.

    I'm convinced that their Haiti charity is a calculated business expense

    which leads to higher profit in the long run. If it were not making them money,

    they would not be doing it.

  • never played, never will.

    it was waaaay to obvious, lol

  • Someone should buy Zynga and destroy the shit out of it

  • @MEhzs

    Zynga will go the same way as K-Mart... they think they are too big to worry about customer service.

  • "by the time we raised money, we were profitable"

    lol wut

  • fuck you pincus

    for warstorm!

  • Pincus can suck my pingas.

  • I'm so glad I don't play anything they make. They're like the Starbucks of the game industry.

  • Control your destiny by being a massive evil dick, got it!

  • @J0cked exactly

  • This guy is a turd. Karma will sort him out.

  • @fonebender lol u r right

  • Why do people like Kennedy get assassinated yet this piece of shit lives?

  • @ragonamuffin cause shit happens

  • Fuck Mark Pincus, and fuck Mike Arrington too.

  • Pincus: "I did every horrible thing in the book to just get revenues right away. I mean, we break into people's houses and rape their pets when they sleep if they download this toolbar which was like... I dunno, My cat got raped once, and I couldn't get rid of it"

    Audience: "lololololol"

  • Im sticking with playfish.

  • damn you zynga liars! fuck off and die! you deserve to get worms in your nose cavity, mark pincus! hope you get hemorrhoids!

  • i want to kick him in the vagina !

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  • Google has actually invested 100 million into this company.

  • You fukn scum bag! Fukn zynga and this fuk will burn in hell!

  • u soooo funny! scumbag.

  • hes not just an ass, hes a dumbass telling everyone this

  • this guy's a faggot, the end.

  • this guy owns

    fuck the haters

  • Zynga also allows children to buy $99 fake chips within their poker application after first providing the app 'free' and without much in terms of price during the process. Zynga actually has promts that encourage the one-click buying of 10 different chip descriptions - each costing between $4.99 and $99. Even when the iPhone and store have all parental restrictions used, Zynga purchasing of fake chips can still occur. Parents beware.

  • FUCK YOU!!!

  • I would rip this sorry son of a bitch head off and stuff it up his ass

  • I'd like to sew up his asshole and make him eat rotten food

  • I want to twist this guy's nuts off.

  • people who play these bullshit games deserve what they get.

  • asshole fricking zynga bitch- everyone should be buying illegal chips to put this stupid game and put him right out of business and see if he will ban all his customers- doesn't make sense, but what does. Let him chew his own ass off.

    guy m- ripped off by zynga poker

  • is this some bingo polka party or what ?

  • Not only does Zynga ripoff other developers games, they even ripoff homepage designs! Check out Zynga's new homepage then check out their competitors - Playfish. Hello?!

  • Facebook Games. Extort lonely moms and their offspring in one shot.

    Ask us how!

    With a name like Marcus Pincus... *sigh*

  • Scammer scammer scammer D:<

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  • well I cannot understand why someone would publicly make those remarks that could jeopardize their business but then again all this is nothing, they just sent out a request to be voted for game of the year and they won and then they sent another for facebook user to vote for another category and believe or not people will

  • U FUCKIN GAY FAG MARK! EAT SHIT AND DIE!

  • Another reason why I hate Zynga besides the fact their games are crap.

  • What's sickening is this guy genuinely seems unremorseful about what he's done. It's one thing to be a cutthroat businessman and look for weaknesses in your competition. That's just business. It's another thing to be a con artist and screw your customers in the way of getting that money. That's just old fashioned greed, and a bit of advice for Pincus: NEVER bite the hand that feeds you, because it WILL come back to haunt you someday.

  • @SeanStrife - You're right. That punk would do it again if he had the chance.

  • @swagga07 Hell, he probably is doing it again. You'd think he would've learned after the several class action lawsuits filed against him.

  • Geeez....this just about says it all as far as how Zynga feels about their loyal customers.

  • wat a gay ass

  • Why would you ever waste money on a browser based game? I can somewhat see buying DLC for the xbox or Playstation (Which even then is marked up for sale when they could have included it on the disc)

    This whole Zynga thing is a huge scam. I played farmville once for about 30 seconds, saw it was a spam n scam and deleted it.

  • is he die?

  • Dorkus Malorkus Pincus does not care about you. He is Legion. He will take your money and ruin Facebook. He shits fire. Try and fuck with him and he will just poop out some other middle-ware social game clone that his crack "designers" came up with after seeing what other successful game was out there. God bless america.

  • ahhh... yes.... what a bastard.

  • Hate to tell you all this, but they are not the only ones that do this. Facebook alone does too. I have found several that do the same thing. People just need to watch what they download or install. And any kind of toolbar is Adware, some are just easier to get rid of than others. I am not defending the guy by no means, I am just saying he isn't the only one.

  • and yet people never learnt from downloading bonzi buddy that these games are stupid

  • I am addicted to crackville lol

    yea and I proud keeps me out of trouble, and you think he looks happyyyyy I am sure he is being an upcoming millionaire! lol

  • is it me or he looks gay?

  • What a dick.

  • I'm glad I don't uses crackVille on crackbook.

  • I had no idea until my computer was freezing up on the games. I started to look into the reasons this could happen and stumbled upon an article and this video. I have since then took the games off and let people know my experiences. I also sent the article I found plus this video. I appreciate this being posted, hopefully my friends and family will open their eyes as well. Thank you again for posting this, it was very helpful.

  • So, in other words Marcus Pincus justifies fucking his customers as hard as possible as long as it got his crappy "rip off other games" business up and running.

    What is he saving money on? All his games are ripped off of existing ones.

    I can't believe how frank he is about being a huge fucking bastard and the people didn't rush the stage and beat him for 24 hours straight.

    He admitted to putting spyware on PC's and the idiots laugh!

    I wouldn't break if I saw this shithead crossing the road.

  • @ChildrenofAmory he actually said so under the circumstance of being a micrco-company. Now, being as big as they are, they do set a higher standard and don't let that happen.

    A very Machiavellic approach on bussiness, but if you haven't noticed it, most companies do the same or very similar.

    And actually, the ones laughing are the smart people. Idiots are the ones that actually clicked on those shady adverts

  • @LOLinFEVER It's easy to throw a statement like "everyone does it" out and hope no one thinks about it for more than a second. No, not everyone does it. Unless you have proof that everyone does it, and does it at the extent Zynga did it.

    Terrific, they don't do it anymore, now that they fucked enough people over. That's like saying, I sold enough drugs to kids to start my restaurant. Sure a couple OD'ed but I don't have to do it anymore, and tons of people get money from shady places.

  • @ChildrenofAmory

    >Read again, I haven't said 'anyone', i've just said 'most'. If you're so smart to throw hard balls against 1 company, you're surely smart enough to do some research by yourself, cba to spoon-feed someone else on BASIC information

    > "fucked people over" ???? are you joking? Those 'Zwinky bar' adverts are not even spyware, they're just annoying adverts. And were you actually retarded enough to click on those?

    Please realize you're just over exaggerating.

  • I made it to level 41 of yoville. I ALMOSt have enough for a house-lol- Pretty sad cuz I have the highest paying job at the factory and theres only 50 levels. There is so much sketchyness going on with this company. I feel hollow. I cant even name off everything wrong thats going on there. Im amazed this company is able to break laws the way they have. And whatever isnt outright lawbreaking, they are also sneaky and conniving and mostly greedy.

    They turn a blind eye to criminals they are too.

  • i agree... fuck zynga and all to those who work for them. their ideas are not even original.. copyright stealers!!!

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  • I never heard of Zynga until today when I received a Paypal email saying I paid them $150.00 for some chips , They literally Hacked into my account and stoled the money THIS COMPANY IS BULLSHIT!!!!!!! This owner should be thrown in jail There are countless claims of Fraud with this company

  • @schuh61 Report them to the police take action!

  • fuck zynga. hack their games, buy 3rd party chips, troll their users.

  • I have a fucking toolbar i cant get rid of...ill tell you what mark...how bout i come round your house and shove the lit end of a cigarette right down the top of your cock huh you like that biatchhhhhhh....

    seriously mark you are a fucking retard and oh wow you won a crunchie award for that fucking farmville bullshit thats clogging the fuck outa my news feed

    well guess what mark , zynga is shit , farmville is shit and the crunchie awards have no credibility or merrit...so just shut the fuck up

  • Mark Pincus sucks huge donkey balls.

    He is a giant douche and his company partners with IESNARE. In case you don't know - they put tracking cookies on your computer to monitor your online habits.

    San Francisco based developers are the worst - because they are soooo out of touch with everyday people.

    Fuck you Pincus. And I'd spit on you if I ever saw you. yes, I would be arrested and be charged with a misdemeanor, but horking a big loogey in your face would be worth it.

    Karma's a bitch Mark

  • I am a San Francisco based developer and I am not out of touch. Please don't bundle everyone with companies like Zynga. We went for 8 months with no pay and no funding to get our product out, and we did it with quality and we did it well. No screwing over users. Also 2D Boy (World of Goo) are from San Francisco, along with many, many, other wonderful developers.

  • @demonpants Read the comment below you fucking scammer fuck you're stupid company you're boss is a greedy son of a bitch fuck your game your company and all your works i hope you tell that to your fucking gay ass boss that fucking idiot who broke the law I should report your company right now.

  • Now I understand why Zynga games on Facebook are so crappy. The owner!

  • mark pincus is a total dick and should stand before someone and answer questions on why he runs a shitty scamming company and runs it using fukin monkeys!!!!!!!!!!! False bannings hackings lack of customer support the use of BOTS the lot but no one will challenge him so he will continue to sit there wanking off at the money he rips off from his members and laughing and all because people continue to play his crap games!

  • taking advantage of stupid people is an age old practice.

  • Wow, he's superdouche!

  • Guys like Mark give the "good guys" a bad name. We get many companies pitching these intrusive products, yet we use moral and ethical guidelines Mark, something you need to learn to do. And, when you follow God's laws, you STILL control your own destiny and your company. Hope you all have a chance to play our game in the future!

  • Well, he obviosly isnt smart, because now he's facing a class action lawsuit. Which he deserves. hahahaha. what a dumbass.

  • dont' invest your time in zynga games, you'll spend countless hours playing then one day, theyll screw up and theyll reset your character 40 levels like they did countless others including mine. Thankfull i was only lvl 50 then yesterday i got a lvl 12, properties gone, all collections reset, what a joke, had to delete mafia and all other zynga garbage.

  • Google search: #zyngaboycott

  • Andy Dick is the CEO of Zynga?!

  • tiny url. I presume a d0tc0m, and then a backslash followed by "zyngaboycott"

  • mark pincus is a fucking piece of shit

    FUCK YOU MARK PINCUS!

  • lol... It's always like this. To get rich you have to be a bastard.

  • Good thing you made some money, scumbag. You'll be seeing a lot less of it from your "customers" whom you clearly have zero respect for.

  • Zynga is a one hit wonder company.

    The one hit is mafia wars, and they can't leave it alone so they are pissing off the users who made it a hit.

    They suck, and the sooner they die off like the other startups before them, the better.

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  • This punk needs to go to jail. When he does I hope big bubba pounds the living crap outa him.

  • I think this originally was suppose to be like some sort of self-help, confidence boosting seminar for maybe seven people it sounded like in the audience, however, instead it just comes off sounding like, "How to sell not only your soul but your consumers' as well! Three easy steps!"

    Also, seriously, Mark, if you are going to brag about being at the forefront of a brand, please, please, spend some money for public speaking lessons. Your future dining rooms of corporate suits will thank you.

  • Be more successful if you have no conscience?

  • selling out US consumers (mainly kids who play these games) to Red Chinese and Soviet online scammers who Autobill you and hide their cancelation options w/deceptive CLICK ME. Liquidate this scums BANK account. Bye-Bye Zynga! You money lovin' shrew!

  • I hate this company so much. MHA WILL LIVE FOREVER FUCK YOU ZYNGA

  • there has been a lawsuit filed against him and his company for scamming customers. I'm pretty sure in total, he scammed people out of $5 million. so, all his great horrible ways will probably land him in jail soon. i just hope they don't delete farmville :(

  • What do you think Facebook is going to do? If Zynga is causing problems that attracts lawsuits, then they are going to cut them loose pretty damn quick.

  • FB is going to hold out as long as they can. Zynga represent up to 20% of FBs ad revenue. When Zynga violated FB policy by allowing 3rd party scammers to advert in their new game FishVille, FB banned the game for three days. This would be good news, except their game FarmVille was running the same adverts and was left alone. FB will allow Zynga alot of freedom until Zynga chokes itself.

  • another thief on his way up

  • Zynga care nothing for its customers. They just want more and more... typical American company nowadays...get the money and screw the customer. There was once a time, when the customer was valuable.

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  • scamming us for our money  hope ur fucking business crashes

  • asshole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

  • Same here whaffles. spent 2 years playing a game for all thosr memories to be deleted cos they say they can't fund the game, bullshit!!!!!!!

  • I played MHA for 2 years and they have not done any development in ages...beyotch!

  • For every douche like this capitalism makes rich, 10,000 angels die.

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  • has anyone actually played a zynga game on face book ? mafia wars for one is just clicking on links that dont really mean anything, and all it is actually doing is spamming your friends with junk and encouraging you to even spam people you dont know , the enitire thing is spam and people play it by the thousand, I wont critisise him for it, I critisize the stupid assholes that fall for it.

  • It's really sad that companies like Zynga do everything they can to get as many users as possible. You want to play a game to kill some time and what? You need 10 neighbors in order to expand your... whatever you're playing. And after you expand don't miss the opportunity to share the news with everyone. There are too few quality games on Facebook...

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  • BELLEND!

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  • DEEock> beeOTCH>> mArrOOn

  • i beat this fuka,s texas hold em game..so then they took my chips away ..and they know i did...wankers.conmen.

  • *#$%&^#($#!!!!!!!!!! A******!!!

  • Is he gay?

  • what a cunt

  • Yeah, lesson here, there are way more funner video games to play. Why help a scumbag out with these ridiculous application?

  • yo better stay at home homie.. u might get killed..

  • Ass.

  • im gonna fucking kill ya Mark!!!

  • punk. i've deleted mafia wars.

  • douche hole

  • That Guys Slime in the Ice Machine

  • @jeffbagwellbiggio  marrrrrvin zindlerrrrrr eyeeee witnessss news!!!!!!!!

  • Be sure to tell your buddies about this... what a low low person. Never going to play Zynga games again (like I ever did....)

  • Slouchebag! Dime!

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  • And he thinks he's funny?!

    I WILL NEVER PLAY THIS GAME AGAIN