{"id":738,"date":"2012-03-27T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2012-03-27T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:52:11","slug":"turning-down-zynga-why-i-left-after-the-210m-omgpop-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/738","title":{"rendered":"Turning down Zynga: Why I left after the $210M Omgpop buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to know there are some decent people out there who dare to stand up for what they believe in.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And then I wondered: why was I even trying to compromise? Zynga has an Austin studio, where several good friends of mine work. Yet I had never applied to Zynga. Why? Because the company&#8217;s values are completely opposed to my own values, professionally and creatively. Because I believe that developers are at the front lines of game development and deserve to be treated well, and I didn&#8217;t trust Zynga to do so. All this was still true &#8212; except that their complete unwillingness to negotiate with me only confirmed my concerns. Why on earth was I even considering joining?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to know there are some decent people out there who dare to stand up for what they believe in. And then I wondered: why was I even trying to compromise? Zynga has an Austin studio, where several good friends of mine work. Yet I had never applied to Zynga. Why? Because the company&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[184,548,549,547,138],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-general","tag-game","tag-gaming","tag-ideal","tag-indie","tag-zocken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}