All Quiet on the CVL Front

Grumpy fish in the pond. Sal was really something else in Castleville.

Dear Royals,

it's been a little quiet in our kingdoms but this is not necessarily the doom and gloom a few players are making it out to be. Until we hear from the mouth of an official employee that the game is to close it is all speculation.

Zynga is a company

We as players often forget that our favorite game is created by a software development company. More precisely, a video game developer. Anything and everything can change in the software development world, for reasons that are often impossible to predict ahead of time. As a result, you'll find any developer hesitant to 100% commit to anything. This is because there's always a very real chance that there's something they haven't thought of that makes what they want to do impossible.

Finding bugs, implementing fixes, testing those fixes, finding more bugs (sometimes caused by those fixes)... it all adds up to a lot more work being needed then originally expected. And as a result, what they originally thought would only take a few weeks could end up taking a couple months. And that's just the game bugs. There are also several factors that could be delaying things.

Zynga Cafe

Did you Know

Currently, Zynga is undergoing a small restructure in their business. The CFO(Chief Financial Officier) has resigned and they are looking for a replacement. Due to having to streamline the way they do things a 10% workforce cut has been issued. Future games are being postponed until next year and current games are being trimmed to remove excess(I'm talking about extra bonuses or bringing us events 24/7) so they can continue moving forward.

There's also the fact that Flash in itself is being considered an ancient, disposable thing. It's far too easy to exploit and allows several ways to harm our mobile devices/computers. A lot of the main browsers as well as companies(such as Facebook) are looking for something more stable to replace it. Speaking of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg(sp?) is even considering blocking game notifications because it blocks the social notifications of Facebook. He doesn't like the competition and is ready to get rid of it. Basically, there is a ton on all of the software development companies plates.

Yvette, hurry up and marry Rafael

The Sky is not falling

...at least not that we know of until we are told by an official decree. Despite a smaller, active playerbase the Zynga company has finally found a way to retain a remaining loyal portion of players that also are happy to fund their games. I think that is why we were given Hazel's land expansion alongside quite a few crowns. It was the CVL team's way of trying to make us happy with the time and resources they had at hand.

This got a bit lengthy but that's why Royal Legend is a fanblog. :P Seriously though, I just also know that it's better to not expect much and be pleasantly surprised, than to feel like a promise was broken.

At least that's my opinion.

Happy playing,
Masaya of
Royal Legend