Price Gouging

Did Zynga think that no one would notice?

You would think that by now they would know that farmville players are often ~social~ ... it is a social game, after all.

People are (rightly) perturbed to find out that there are different prices for the new pink hanging flower tree. I paid 7FV$ for each of the 3 I purchased. Others are able to buy it for 3, or 5 FV$ - and for some, it is as high as 8 or 10 FV$.

Everyone's purple hanging flower tree seems to be priced at 15 FV$ - but since that one is a level 2 and can be grown in the orchards, few of us bother to buy level 2 trees anyway; no one cares.

The price variances on the other tree are extremely irksome though! How is Zynga deciding who to offer the cheapest prices? Are those of us who actually support the game by buying FV$ being punished? It wouldn't be the first time - people who don't cough up actual money, or who do so only rarely, are often offered discounts and special offers that those who already buy are not. Nice way to say thank you, innit?

Anyway, now I am perturbed. I would not have bought the trees at 7 if I had known others were being offered them for 3...at the very least I would have checked my kids' accounts to see if they have the lower prices and bought them from there.

I feel ripped off, Zynga. Was that your intent?

Why don't you like your players, Zynga? Would you like us all to bugger off and go away? If you succeed at that goal, who is going to pay your bills, do you think? DO you think?

Honestly, so often this year, it seems as though people at Zynga are just determined to sink the whole company. I suspect that some of the people they picked up in their various mergers did not embrace the change....and I KNOW that there are altogether too many among them that think that all farmville players are idiots.

Maybe we are.

Or maybe it is the people who are pissing off the people that pay the bills that are the idiots?

How many diehard tree collectors do you have to lose before it starts to affect your bottom line, Zynga? It seems like you've succeeded in losing yet another batch. You do understand that once someone gets irked and stops collecting, they stop spending money, right? Apparently not - you did it with horses ...and now with the trees. Well done! DUH.


Suggestion:

People who don't want to see Zynga succeed should not be working for Zynga.

People who do not respect the players should not be working for Zynga.

And quit messing with the prices: be fair.