Valve vs Zynga

[Phott]

I'm not sure how many of you know about this, but The Escapist is running a competition revolving around famous game companies/developers.

The Escapist's 2010 March Mayhem: Developer's Showdown, where the top 64 developers go head-to-head to see who is the best. Our elimination style tournament has started and won't end until 1 developer remains and it's up to YOU and visiting communities to determine the outcome of each match-up through voting for your favorite developer!

And of course Valve is amongst them and they have gotten very far which isn't surprising. Who are they up against? Bioware? Blizzard? No, they're now up against Zynga, the makers of games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars from Facebook. Guess who's winning... You guessed wrong, Zynga is having quite a lead right now.

UPDATE: Valve has triumphed!
Valve 53.3% (25677)
Zynga 46.7% (22470)

So do your duty and head over to The Escapist's competition chart and vote for the worthy winner.

[no00dylan]

How the hell is Zynga winning?

[Armageddon]

Who the heck is Zynga?

[MayheM]

Obviously the people on there are not interested in real games... Farmville?!? Really?!?!

[Armageddon]

Farmville? That game where people waste their life? And they are beating Valve? NO WAY! Must go tell the Valve community.

[Phott]

Farmville? That game where people waste their life? And they are beating Valve? NO WAY! Must go tell the Valve community.

I believe the Valve community already knows.

[Jasard]

Obviously some big Facebook campaign or something to make them win. No other developer gives a shit.

[Unstoppable Florence]

I get the feeling that the guy who does Zero Punctuation will have a few amusing explicit phrases to say about this.

[Jike]

What the uck, that fucktard game farmville. I played that suckin game and it sucks. But its addicitve so I played until I was the best in my friends list and then I blocked the damn application harhar.

Please, Valve win!!!!

Thank god they did a steam news on this one.

[1447]

Sad news, sad news indeed...

[Phott]

Obviously some big Facebook campaign or something to make them win. No other developer gives a shit.

Did you miss the big steam announcement about it or what? It seems to me they give a shit.

[Elv02]

Zynga? God damnit... Not Zynga... Anything but Zynga...

Farmville is all most of my friends play. Whenever I mention Steam, I usually get "What? Oh, that shooting thing you do?" Then they turn to someone else and comment about the latest thing on their farm...

[coder0xff]

Obviously some big Facebook campaign or something to make them win. No other developer gives a shit.

Did you miss the big steam announcement about it or what? It seems to me they give a shit.

It so happens that I did miss it. Care to share a link of something?

[marks]

you all know Farmville made like more profit last year than MW2 right? Yeah :s I think thats the right statistic anyway, but it makes a LOT of money.

[coder0xff]

Peoples lives REALLY are THAT boring.