I'm sure the guys at HeyZap are good people with the best of intentions, but the issue is that they can't predict the future. They can't tell you that their se

I'm sure the guys at HeyZap are good people with the best of intentions, but the issue is that they can't predict the future. They can't tell you that their servers will be compromised, and all your users will be open game. They can't promise you that they won't bring in a CEO that just wants to get the company sold, and doesn't care about the developers or their customers. They can't tell you that when they pivot, all your games will be busted. Not because they're hiding this gem from you. It's simply because they don't know it. When you roll your own, you know it's going to survive because YOU are responsible for it. No BS politics are going to force you down an ridiculous migration path you don't already know about, and since YOU are the CEO, you can sell out and not worry about screwing companies who are dependent on your product or service. Even IF you choose to use a third party, you owe it to yourself to write your own and mirror that data on to yours so that when, not IF, they go down or out, you can flip a switch and you're back in business within seconds, not days. The deal with GREE stinks of potential currency manipulation, IMHO, and I wouldn't put my livelihood in their hands for one minute. Again, not because they're bad people - I don't know them from Adam, but because they've already shown that they're willing to allow the customer, we developers, to do ALL the work to satisfy THEIR migration to their API instead of requiring OpenFeint to develop a transparent proxy layer and make it turnkey. Don't indie developers have enough to do already?