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Something so totally beyond repair after being altered, adjusted, fiddled with, meddled with and generally mucked about with is totally "Zynga'd".

Any attempt to make it better (and there has to be many in order to deserve this definition) only makes things worse and therefore enhances the definition of being "Zynga'd".
There was once a game on FaceBook which was exceptional. The game was great, the Group Forum associated with the game was friendly and amusing and everyone helped each other along with tips and game play strategies (well they had to, the company in charge of the game had nothing to do with it). The happy people of this Group Forum thought up new ways to enhance their game playing and all was going well until the weekend of the "Valentine's Day Massacre" event. The day before the event was to begin, the game itself was altered beyond recognition.

All attempts to make the game playable to the standard of the previous game were unsuccessful and led to further "Zynga-ups" in the game. Further attempts to improve the game to make it unexploitable have proven to be unmitigated failures and the developers of the game prove themselves to be inept, incompetent and inadequate to the tasks put to them.

Tha game is an application made by a company called Zynga - hence the definition.

Quote: "I didn't say it was broken, to be broken would imply that it can be repaired, it's not, it's zynga'd."
Zynga by Erzebet August 19, 2009
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The most hated company in the world according to hardcore gamers.

The company responsible for Farmville, Mafia Wars, Words with Friends, and a couple dozen knockoffs of more successful games. They make casual games on Facebook and cell phones centered around minimal skill, arbitrary wait times, excessive monetization, a flood of automated referrals spamming everybody's wall with requests to be somebody's neighbor, and their admitted use of scams and spyware.

Despite their games only being about as much fun as your screensaver at work and taking less effort to make than the average "10,000 Games on 1 CD!" shovelware, they tapped into the Pavlovian center of grandmothers the world over to the tune of billions of dollars in revenue and a nearly 20 billion dollar initial stock offering in 2011. They have since gone on a truly disastrous meltdown, with mass layoffs, executives bailing, their stock plummeting, insider trading and fraud accusations, and Electronic Arts suing them over plagiarism. Time will tell if they get buried like they deserve.
Mom, if you ever give another Zynga app permission, I swear I will unfriend you.
Zynga by Alexander Peregrine September 17, 2012
1. To break something, or make something worse while trying to improve it.

2. Attempting to get aid from a helpdesk without knowledge of the company it is working for
1.
RICK: Did you hear about Kenny? His car blew up.
JOHN: OMG, how did thàt happen?
RICK: He wanted to make it go faster by installing a nitrogen tank.
JOHN: Looks like he zynga'd badly!

2.
HELPDESK: how may I be of assistence?
CUSTOMER: Hi, I've been trying to set up a new LAN after installing your latest service pack, but it keeps timing out for no apparent reason.
HELPDESK: I see... Could you check if the power is turned on?
CUSTOMER: *facepalm* I can't believe I'm getting zynga'd here!
Zynga'd by Gerwald DG August 14, 2010

Zynga-dicted™ 

Zynga-dicted™ (ZIN-guh-DIC-ted), adj., is a de facto trademark of Zynga, Inc. It describes someone who is hooked up on Internet Crack, and totally devoid of a life.

see also,

ZyngAddict™ (ZINg-AD-dict), n., a person who is hooked up on Internet Crack, and totally devoid of a life.

Note the adjective has only one "d".
Oh, man, he doesn't work, bathe, or go outside. He must be Zynga-dicted™.

I'm tired of all the ZyngAddicts™ on Facebook. All they do is SPAM that fucking nonsense all over my nice neat wall. I had to ban all those God Damn ZyngAddicts™.
Zynga-dicted™ by [TOM] ThunderDawg September 19, 2010

Zynga hangover 

Zynga hangover, n., encompassing hangover-like symptoms following an evening, or contiguous evenings tending virtual property within any number of the numerous Zynga gaming realms.

Symptoms include sore back and/or shoulders, shooting pains in primary mousing hand, severe exhaustion, dry eyes, a dull ache in the soul stemming from a profound realization that an enormous amount of time has just been wasted nurturing virtual property (time that could be better spent writing that paper, learning the flute or obtaining a real hangover), and loss of friends (both real and Facebook).

Common symptom of a ZyngAddict, one who is Zynga-dicted.
Hey Mike, I have the worst Zynga hangover; I want to kill myself for being such a worthless shit. Also, I have shooting pains in my primary mousing hand.
Zynga hangover by bdalziel June 17, 2011

Zynga gay boy 

A person who, for some reason, decides to go all in with an ace and a 6 before the flop. They do not understand the matter of consequence, and after their unavoidable failure they decide to leave without a comment.
I was such a Zynga gay boy when we played poker last night, so I lost all my money
Zynga gay boy by The Weird Flexer December 3, 2018

Zynga effect 

The Zynga effect can refer to the effect of making a player an addict of a game. This is achieved by applying game theory, that is, using calculated methods of structuring the activities and rewards to induce feelings of satisfaction and urgency in the player.
Employers and educators alike have taken notice of the success of games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, and are searching for ways to incorporate the Zynga effect to improve motivation and morale.
Zynga effect by bigolshappy October 22, 2012
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