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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by watwut on Friday October 26, 2018 @12:15PM (#18310597)
Zynga copied base from another developer and then A/B aggressively to squeeze maximum. It is not like it would be some shameful secret, that was even basic advice to developers after.

Zynga had repeated success, untill market saturated and other developers caught up. That does not make these tactics not working, that just makes them so common that they are not such a huge advantage anymore.

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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by scotty79 on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:20PM (#18311604)
> Zynga had repeated success, untill market saturated and other developers caught up

I'd say, until people got bored with the same single local optimum game that all Zynga games converged to despite differnt skins.

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