aim to raise around $250m in a deal that

Missing ‘m’ in the article. Or are they really only trying to raise 250 bucks? :)

Funkstar
Missing ‘m’ in the article. Or are they really only trying to raise 250 bucks? :)

Indeed, we could save them the trouble and have a whip-round.:p

Tpyo
Indeed, we could save them the trouble and have a whip-round.:p

We could, but I wouldn't bother, not for the people behind *Ville series.

I tried Farmville for like 7 days and got bored it off it after than. Not sure what the appeal is to it as it doesn't seem to have a dense play depth to it. Sinking real money into it seemed a bit pointless.

a fool and their money will soon be parted….

The fact that Zynga turns a profit and 400m from 275m users… its less than $1.50 an year profit per user actually sounds to me to be a great return of interest for the company… but worth 7-9billion…. really?

I am out (in an angry Peter Jones style).

Zynga games are fun time wasters and whilst some players do spend money… I wonder what percentage spend $50(the price of a computer game) a year… and I wonder how many players would keep playing if spending money became required…. I suspect that if they required a $1 payment to play all zynga games ever they would probably loose half their user base.