Posts Tagged ‘FarmVille’

A Facebook status update claiming that Zynga is giving away farm cash worth $50 for free is simply not true.

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A young woman from Florida has just pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of her baby son because he interrupted her FarmVille game with his crying.

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At this year’s WWDC, Mark Pincus announced that Zynga will be bringing Farmville to the iPhone. There aren’t a ton of details yet, but the game will sync with your Facebook farm so you can play the game anywhere. Pincus hinted that playing with your hand on the iPhone is great, and also joked that there will be ‘push’ notifications to let you know when your crops are withering. This is going to be a huge game, without a doubt, and takes Facebook – iPhone game integration to a new place.
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There have been a bunch of rumors about Zynga leaving the Facebook Platform over the past week. The story has been watched closely by developers who are also feeling the tightening grip of Facebook, however no source has painted such a dramatic picture as Fox News. In an article this morning, Fox states, “Sources at Facebook described Zynga as a bad actor, which is putting profits before its users, and suggested that if the situation persisted it would be best if Zynga’s games left Facebook altogether.” Really?
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It was only a matter of time before all those anti-Farmville Facebook Groups got a cause to get behind, and that patient wait is over. Jolt Games has released a game called “FarmVillain”, and it’s got over half a million users and is growing fast. Described by fellow gaming site Kotaku as being so low-brow that “it’s leaving little brow trails on the ground behind them”, the game revolves around, well, nothing! The game simply involves posting fake Farmville stories that are crude and disgusting and kind of hilarious.

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The mother of a 12-year-old FarmVille addicts has come out to highlight the risk of playing online games on Facebook after the son amassed $1400 in fees in the game FarmVille. While some of the fees came from the kid’s savings account, the mother had to cover close to $1,000 of the fees. Since amassing the fees, Facebook has disabled the kid’s account, as he’s not old enough to use the site.
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A City Council member was voted off of his council last week because he ignored his chairman’s warnings and continued to play Farmville during meetings. This occured in the Plovdiv City Council in Bulgaria and has become a news fascination in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. He defended himself by claiming that other people in the Council had higher levels than him.
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Microsoft gained over 400,000 Facebook fans on their Bing fan page yesterday thanks to a single advertisement in FarmVille. The fan page, which grew by five times in size from around 100,000 users to now above 500,000 users, was part of a promotion by Bing, where Farmville users could gain virtual currency by becoming a fan of the Bing Facebook page. The ad was a clever integration, and users could join the Bing page without interrupting their game.
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Rumors have been circulating about Farmville supposedly introducing a subscription fee into the game, similar to the rumors about Facebook charging a fee. As usual, the rumors are false. The game has been in BETA since launch, and while the upgrade to the full version will likely involve some important changes, it’s doubtful that Zynga would use the occasion to alienate the majority of users on their largest game.
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The massively popular Facebook game, Farmville, is now even more popular. Farmville is about to surpass 80 million monthly active users, up from 70 million active monthly users in December 2009 and 60 million active monthly users in October 2009. If you look at these stats, it seems that the game is gaining 10 million users every other month.
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