Fighting on for CastleVille Legend

Hello everyone,

there is now two active petitions going around the net in the hopes that CastleVille Legends will be saved. One is called, "Zynga Save CastleVille Legend" which was started by Michael Weatherly found at this link, The other is created by Roz Giancola and is titled, "Zynga Players want CastleVille Legends to Continue". Roz's petition can be found at this link.

A voice of unity can create an opening

I had read a bit about the YoVille game that was created by Big Viking Games, bought out by Zynga then shut down and then bought back from Zynga by Big Viking Games. The one thing that stood out to make this happen was this:

On day one of the shutdown, there was a massive outpouring of support from the YoVille community asking if we could buy back the game.  We got bombarded over the first 24 hours of the announcement from thousands of YoVille fans. - Big Viking Games

What happened next was that this attracted the attention of  Big Viking Games. They then sought out Zynga to which Mark Pincus(former CEO now current leading Board member of Zynga) responded quickly to the idea of selling the rights.  Now, YoVille is called YoWorld. It is still ongoing and it is still growing. And it wouldn't have begun to happen if the fans did not come together and create a huge uproar of grief about losing their beloved game.

If the fans of YoWorld hadn’t campaigned as hard as they did to save their game, if Zynga didn’t care to go above and beyond during the transition, and if we weren’t in the position to be able to tackle such a huge undertaking, this wouldn’t have been possible. - Big Viking Games

Then again this could all be a bunch of hubris and nutty positivity to even consider. However, I'd like to believe that if it happened once then it could happen again. Do not give up if you feel CastleVille Legends is worth saving. Sign the petitions, explain how you feel on the main CVL blog about them bringing back another game instead of keeping our own. Reach out to any game developer you know of and email/tweet them your letters. Make Youtube Videos, and start up a hashtag of #SaveCVL(or similar) on Twitter targeting anyone that will listen. If enough of us do this then just maybe something good can happen. At the very least we can say that we tried.

Happy Playing,
Masaya