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They really did become arrogant... they bought a whole other company just for one game, draw my thing(mobile), and then destroyed the website(omgpop.com, previously iminlikewithyou.com) which had multiple other long lived games that still had hundreds of users.

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Hundreds of users? Not merely dozens?

I can totally understand a company on Zynga's scale killing games that have tens of thousands of DAUs.

Yes probably more than hundreds (but I have no idea), which is why they bought the company but most of the users at that time were centered around Draw My Thing. There were still two or three very active games on the main site though. Admittedly there were multiple nearly dead games and also games that you had to know to access...

It's called Draw Something and omgpop was a tiny site when they shut it down. Something like Alexa 2 million. It had effectively no users.

Every tech company does that to surplus assets in an acquisition because keeping them running would require more resources than they are worth and they'd be a distraction.

Google killed several Slide games that were relatively big. Same reason.

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