Facebook games (ie. FARMVILLE)
There’s something about Facebook games that pisses me off. Maybe its just the people that use facebook every day to play pointless shitty games like Cafe World or Mafia Wars……..and spam your news feeds with moronic updates about how they need more trees or bunnies or whatever to get to the next level. NO ONE CARES. FACEBOOK GAMES SUCK, END OF STORY.
ANYWAY, Cam and I seem to share something in common after all, and that is our hate for Farmville. Nothing annoys me more so than seeing it become the most popular game on Facebook…the fact that so many people play it religiously just defies belief. I have to admit I do play Restaurant City every now and then, but that is only to check up on new updates/recipes and to see if I can get more ingredients to learn more new dishes….and…yeah. I KNOW, I’m lame and slightly hypocritical. It’s the only Facebook game I kind of log on to every now and then because I do think it is a game done well for the Facebook platform.
I just DON’T GET FARMVILLE THOUGH. I don’t get how clicking squares for half an hour, every so often every single day, can be considered fun. How is Farmville even considered a game?! Quoting from the very reliable source, Wikipedia, apparently a game…:
“…generally involve[s] mental or physical stimulation, and often both. Many games help develop practical skills, serve as a form of exercise, or otherwise perform an educational, simulational or psychological role.”
Yeah. Where do I even start with Farmville on this one. Do I even need to spell out the irony in all this? Something even more amazing however – doing a simple search in Facebook for Farmville will produce staggering figures:
How has it become the most popular game on Facebook?!? Baffles my mind really.
I suppose the premise is really simple, and kind of like the really old school Sim games, or Tycoon games. You get a farm, you click squares to plant seeds, you click squares again to water them, then you click squares again to harvest them…all to gain money, which you can use to upgrade your farm to plant even more crops and click more squares.
ANYONE SEE THE PROBLEM HERE?!
The fact that you’re creating even more work for yourself by upgrading your farm and planting even more plants to harvest……all for crappy pixel medals is just….so pointless.I blame Zynga for contributing to the mass amounts of spam I get each day in my news feed about FUCKING FARMVILLE.
Don’t even get me started on the mechanics of the game. Apart from clicking squares to plant crops, water and harvest them….Zynga found an even more amusing way to keep people hooked on the game. ADDING TREES AND ANIMALS AND GETTING PEOPLE TO HARVEST THE SHIT OUT OF THEM TOO!!! Who knew you could harvest baby elephants?! -_-’ THAT’S RIGHT PEOPLE. BABY ELEPHANTS. Where is PETA in all this? So now…its not just clicking squares…but clicking irregular shapes to make even more money to click even more squares! GENIUS.
Forget about game organization….game structure….game motivation….just get people to spam each other, adopt random animals and bunch them all into a corner where you can quickly click them all one by one with ease and efficiency.
Now this is how you farm!
So apparently, Zynga made $100 million from people buying Farmville cash alone last year. How depressing.
I don’t even know what else to say on this matter, other than…I think I have given enough evidence as to why Farmville sucks so much. I will never understand how it got this popular, and why so many people still play it. And it is now 4:10am, and instead of going to sleep like I was GOING TO, I stayed up an hour more and typed this in a fit of anger induced rage.
Whatever! We have HEAPS in common.
Like for example, we both like ranting about shit, and we both REALLY REALLY like rave music!
…Right?
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Only in your dreams will I EVER love rave music! :shock:
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