Zynga Begins Separation from Facebook

Just think of Zynga as a teenager moving out and getting their own apartment: Zynga is growing up and moving on by initially making Facebook Connect a login option. The game company is looking to build on its own merits and to accomplish that, the company has to loosen some of the ties with Facebook.

The new Zynga.com will go live starting next week that lets people create their own account just for playing games. Existing Zynga.com players will continue to have their accounts and the company says no data will be lost.

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Zynga has offered independent login for a little while now. Still, it's good to see them putting some distance between themselves and Facebook since not all of us who like what Zynga brings to gaming also want to deal with Facebook.

Awwww so sad, seeing farmville slowly vanish from the face of the earth...

In other news, office productivity bounced up this week...

Now if they could stop stealing EVERY single other gaming concept insight and blatantly ..


Oh right , they don't care if they do.