A View From the Road: FarmVille Isn't Going Away
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Oh geeze. I thought this was talking about FarmVille in the book/movie "The Road". Confused the hell out of me..
Google was dethroned?!
When did this happen?!
OT: They're here to stay.
But what shocks me is how the iPhone was developed into a great gaming platform.
Social tools like phones, Facebook, Twitter, and gaming CAN mix.
When did this happen?!
OT: They're here to stay.
But what shocks me is how the iPhone was developed into a great gaming platform.
Social tools like phones, Facebook, Twitter, and gaming CAN mix.
Damn it I'm too tempted to say it."This isn't news. God, I hate Facebook. FarmVille sucks, it isn't even a game. Why are you writing about this?" That just had to be said, any ways what made zaguna popular over other facebook apps seems to be effective marketing and luck. The only thing you can learn from them is that the more people you bring in to play, the better you do, thats what makes it spread like wild fire.
So social games are here to stay. Um yes, I agree. Is the point of this article just to hear yourself talk?
Fine. I'll accept that its here to stay.
But I won't like it, nothing on Earth will make me like it.
Plus, its always fun running into someone who plays Farmville, and looks down on my gaming, saying I should "actually do something."
My retort: "Like how you could be doing something while you plant fake crops?"
But I won't like it, nothing on Earth will make me like it.
Plus, its always fun running into someone who plays Farmville, and looks down on my gaming, saying I should "actually do something."
My retort: "Like how you could be doing something while you plant fake crops?"
Facebook, like myspace before it, is a fad and will die out just like all other fads. Eventually the current crop of users will grow up a bit and realize nobody cares they took a poo at 9:13 am, and it contained corn.
Saying Farmville is the wave of the future is like someone in 1985 saying breakdancing was the future. Yes it looks that way NOW but give it a couple of years.
Saying Farmville is the wave of the future is like someone in 1985 saying breakdancing was the future. Yes it looks that way NOW but give it a couple of years.
Wow did you make this post just to hear yourself talk?Kristina Frazier-Henry said:
OT: Finally someone who looks at this from a rational point of view. MM was a pain in the ass, not because Zynga was in it, but rather because people would complain endlessly over it. It got to be rather irritating to be honest. Thank you for a well written argument and an enjoyable read
You forgot to crow 'LALALALALAL, I CAN"T HEAR YOU.'drisky said:
And yes, the reason Farmville is succesful is the same reason people are still sending chain letters/e-mails. If one person gets ten people to play, who get nine people to play, who get nine people to play(not ten because the previous guy is always one of them), then soon enough you've got hundreds of thousands of people playing and trying to get the couple thousand people who resisted to join in.
140 characters is the upper limit of a single text message sent from a dumb-phone. Since the service came into being just before wifi and 3g enabled smart-phones really became ubiquitous, the service was built around the ability to use it entirely on the go, from your phone, requiring the 140 character limit.Galad said:
They've just kept with it. In most cases, anything you want to say can be said in 140 characters (and you can always use a second tweet). Sometimes you just have to get creative with how you word what you want to say. The service has constraints, those constraints don't nnecessitate shallowness.
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Huh. Very well said. Especially the last bits with the LA LA LA, it just makes people look ignorant.
Look I have said this before and I will say it again there are no massive barriers to gaming. There are plenty of easy introductory games out there like Crash that are perfect to help new gamers along. The problem is not high entry the problem is people being lazy that is why things like Farmville work. There is little to no effort required on the users part.
It is like learning an instrument if you want to get into you will stick at it. If you are going to be one of those twats who is in it to be cool you will lose interest and drop it. That is the problem with this apparent gaming barrier people are lazy nowdays simple as that.
It is like learning an instrument if you want to get into you will stick at it. If you are going to be one of those twats who is in it to be cool you will lose interest and drop it. That is the problem with this apparent gaming barrier people are lazy nowdays simple as that.
"Yes, we know that Zynga has done some shady things, but this isn't about its ethical practices (or lack thereof) - they don't even enter into the picture here."
Yes but wouldn't it be great if someone would have done what they did for gaming without being shady and openly exploitive of their audience. I'm all for Facebook and social gaming, my issue is solely with Zynga.
Yes but wouldn't it be great if someone would have done what they did for gaming without being shady and openly exploitive of their audience. I'm all for Facebook and social gaming, my issue is solely with Zynga.
Or like someone in the 50's saying that Rock and Roll was a fad.rembrandtqeinstein said:
My point being: We don't know. Dismissing it outright makes you sound like an old man telling those damn kids to get offa mah lawn.
Regardless of its future importance, the Farmville/social network phenomenon can teach us a lot NOW.
I don't like facebook anymore than you, but I would be an idiot to pretend it isn't something huge right now, or that it reaches a huge untapped demographic.