I must also admit as a Wii / DS gamer I was skeptical abotu achievments but in games liek Wii Sports: Resort and mega Man 9 I have to get em all : /

Oh god....not here too!

We are meant to be "Gamers"...

And yet I got a speical happy glow for the 16 fuel refills I got from presents, it's not quite like getting a great drop in an MMORPG, but too damn close.


Level 31 Farmer with 3 star Wheat.

Demotruk said: Alby_da_Wolf said: ^^ I just hope Malstrom doesn't discover it's quite disruptive, we happy farmers don't need his rants!!! It's not disruptive in the Christensen sense if it's not profitable. I don't know if it is, but I know Facebook in general isn't so I doubt it's disruptive.

I really don't know if they are profitable, but "farmers" are currently more than 70million, if even just 5% of them pays for items buyable only with FV Cash (that you must pay with money, if the 1 unit you get per level-up isn't enough), it would mean more than 3.5million paying players. Enthusiastic players with little spare time, paying for fuel (free refill is slow) to speed up plowing, seeding and harvesting (a full tank is enough only for the smallest fields), can end up paying more than World of Warcraft players monthly. And the game is simple, slow paced, with little interaction amongst gamers and no real-time one, some activities have wait periods before they can be performed again, so cost per each client is a lot smaller than for complex MMORPG's.

I'm curious too about its profits, if any, anyway.

Clearly I'm living under a rock, but why do some people here hate farmville? I know nothing about the game, please fill me in.

Yeah It's unexistent here as well.

Never heard any of my friends talking about it and never saw it in the almighty internet.

VGChartz was the first place I heard someone talking about Farmville.

lol, FarmVille. how long, i wonder, before that word is added to the Oxford Dictionary?

anyhoo, i consider it a major achievement if i even manage to finish a game.. i have the worst staying power ever.

I was like you before I got a 360, and more recently a PS3. I was also a blind Nintendo fanboy, and I used to say "Pfff! Games are already replayable enough if they're well made." Sure, that's right, but you can also get rewards (and sometimes in-game rewards à la Uncharted) for playing a game you love? Sign me in!

i think they are good, sometimes they add some replay value to games, and some are really challenging, putting your gaming skills to test.

Nobody realizes it until they are given access to them.

trashleg said: lol, FarmVille. how long, i wonder, before that word is added to the Oxford Dictionary? anyhoo, i consider it a major achievement if i even manage to finish a game.. i have the worst staying power ever.

With Farmville you can achieve to never end it like anybody else! 

...Wait, what I see? ZOMFG! Your Domo-kun ate Santa and kept his hat!!! Now I understand why instead of finding gifts, the neighbour's children found their kitteh half-eaten!!!  

...And the destiny of kittehs slaughtered by Domo-kuns is worse than death or lycanthropy: