FarmVille Gets Into Food Distribution

Tom Goldman

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FarmVille Gets Into Food Distribution



People have played so much FarmVille that they've caused imaginary farms to yield edible product.

DarkFarmer over on FarmVille Freak [http://farmvillefreak.com/farmville-freaks/farmville-freak-exclusive-find-farmville-ice-cream-at-7-eleven-store] made an interesting discovery while "doing errands" at his local 7-Eleven convenience store. We all know he was probably just getting a Big Bite and a Slurpee to wash away the sadness that comes with regular FarmVille play, but that's besides the point. Mr. DarkFarmer discovered that 7-Eleven now sells ice cream labeled with the FarmVille name.

FarmVille ice cream retails for $2.29 and comes with a code to input into the game to presumably get some piece of FarmVille sh*t. If you open the container though, there's nothing inside. Virtual milk cannot make real ice cream, after all. It appears vanilla is the only imaginary flavor revealed as of yet.

The ice cream is part of a larger Zynga/7-Eleven cross-promotion that includes FarmVille Big Gulp/Slurpee cups and a Goji Berry Slurpee. These cups will also likely have useless codes on them that people won't realize are useless until a rage-quit. With the massive popularity of FarmVille, we can only hope that this is not the beginning of a larger takeover of the entire food industry.

Source: FarmVille Freak [http://farmvillefreak.com/farmville-freaks/farmville-freak-exclusive-find-farmville-ice-cream-at-7-eleven-store]

Image via FarmVille Freak


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BabySinclair

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As if my faith in humanity needed to be shattered even more. Now the fragments are starting to turn to a fine mist
 

KeyMaster45

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Sylryeth said:
Excuse me, i must go cry now.
*huddles in a corner and cries himself asleep*
make room, I think I might join you.

This is quite possibly the biggest /facepalm moment I've ever had, because it makes me sad to think Zynga is branching out from polluting just facebook with it's scam driven business practices.

-EDIT-
This brings up an interesting question....why were you looking at a farmville fansite, and if you not you...who here on the escapist was looking at a farmville fansite?
 

Danpascooch

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KeyMaster45 said:
Sylryeth said:
Excuse me, i must go cry now.
*huddles in a corner and cries himself asleep*
make room, I think I might join you.

This is quite possibly the biggest /facepalm moment I've ever had, because it makes me sad to think Zynga is branching out from polluting just facebook with it's scam driven business practices.
Room for 3?
 

Urgh76

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Im warning you big text
[HEADING=1]OH MY FUCKING GOD1!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH HUMANITY?!?! WHAT THE HELL?!?! WHEN DID THIS ALL START GOING DOWNHILL?!?!?! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!![/HEADING]
i warned you
 

Urgh76

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danpascooch said:
KeyMaster45 said:
Sylryeth said:
Excuse me, i must go cry now.
*huddles in a corner and cries himself asleep*
make room, I think I might join you.

This is quite possibly the biggest /facepalm moment I've ever had, because it makes me sad to think Zynga is branching out from polluting just facebook with it's scam driven business practices.
Room for 3?
Make that four, chum
 
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Am I weird for considering this to be "meh"?
I don't go to 7-11, so... yeah.

Hilarious news post though.

EDIT: Hmm... it seems I missed the "its not filled with anything" part... in that case my disposition has shifted.

 

MortisLegio

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"May our children forgive us"
*nukes the world

Urgh76 said:
danpascooch said:
KeyMaster45 said:
Sylryeth said:
Excuse me, i must go cry now.
*huddles in a corner and cries himself asleep*
make room, I think I might join you.

This is quite possibly the biggest /facepalm moment I've ever had, because it makes me sad to think Zynga is branching out from polluting just facebook with it's scam driven business practices.
Room for 3?
Make that four, chum
no quickly into my bombshelter before its too late!
 

Darkstorm091

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Uh... Um... Wow.
Seriously, this is such a big case of WTF-ism I am literally speechless.
MortisLegio said:
"May our children forgive us"
*nukes the world

Urgh76 said:
danpascooch said:
KeyMaster45 said:
Sylryeth said:
Excuse me, i must go cry now.
*huddles in a corner and cries himself asleep*
make room, I think I might join you.

This is quite possibly the biggest /facepalm moment I've ever had, because it makes me sad to think Zynga is branching out from polluting just facebook with it's scam driven business practices.
Room for 3?
Make that four, chum
no quickly into my bombshelter before its too late!
Might I join in hiding in shame?
 

Not G. Ivingname

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Sylryeth said:
Excuse me, i must go cry now.
*huddles in a corner and cries himself asleep*
There there baby, it doesn't matter if your a ten thump cripple who can't fight for there life, lets tuck you into bedy bye.
 

LeonLethality

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Why is everyone freaking out over this? It's called product placement (I think) and Farmeville isn't the first to do this...
 
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Tom Goldman said:
presumably get some piece of FarmVille sh*t...

...likely have useless codes...
Where has this delicious, biased reporting been? I'm tired of Farmville even being mentioned, much less discussed as a legitimate game, as something meaningful, or otherwise.
Farmville and Zynga have had a ton of coverage, which they don't deserve. I'd rather see a full week of reporting on nothing else than the .gif of the penguin slapping the other penguin upside the head. That would have more meaning to me as a gamer on a gamer site than anything about Zynga.
 

Angryman101

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Do people still play this game? Everybody I know who used to play it quit recently, I thought the fad had passed.