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Re:Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Aust... by MartinCron on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @05:39PM (#4690476)
No True Scotsman fallacy

It is, at least for me, more just transparent snobbery than the No True Scotsman fallacy. The same way some video game journalists don't like to cover Minecraft, as it's "not a real video game".

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Re:Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Aust... by eropple on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @09:23PM (#4691209)
Or it's an interpretation that the motives of the creator are important.

In my mind, Zynga "games" are to games what crack dealers are to entrepreneurs. It may be a subset, but it's a subset about which I believe quite firmly that those that participate should be shunned. They are an unethical company that produce products that I can describe only as predatory.

(And, yes, World of Warcraft falls in the same bucket.)

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