Never heard of this game before, but then again I don't use facebook.

i used to play this game loads and so did most people in my year but gets boring after a while

Probably covered - but comparing this to something like ODST or any other commercially released game is not comparing apples with apples. Ok, what's the dev budget for Farmville? I play Mafia Wars quite a bit on FB but I just don't see these embedded game apps in the same league as any commercial game.

Yeah, such a shame a great game like Rune factory frontier has done so badly while it's clear farming sims are actually popular

My girlfriend plays this, my mom plays this and her mom plays this.

The other night my mother calls up my girlfriend and says "I posted a pink cow! I posted a pink cow! Get it before someone else does!!!"

My girlfriend got all excited and grabbed that pink cow.


I laugh at them.

You purchase in game cash that you can use to buy stuff to decorate or refuel your tractor, which saves you time in planting and harvesting crops.

my mom plays it

"Zynga's FarmVille - a free-to-play Facebook game about tiling soil and tending crops in a virtual farm - has quietly amassed more than 58 million active players."

"Players have generated more than 40 million farms"

did i miss something, how does this game have 58 million active players but only 40 million farms? 18 million people actively didn't start the game?

I actually wonder how many of my friends actually play it now. I blocked it back over the summer like I do most everything I see in my minifeed that's a facebook application.

Maybe some wealthy facebook landlords hire many little facebooker farmers to work one one farm?

I kid, I have no clue how farmville works.