FarmVille Developer Offers $42 Virtual Item

Scrythe

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Seriously, those guys are freakin' geniuses. Getting people to pay so much for so little is like an art form now.

If these guys teamed up with Apple and Gaia, they'd take over the world.
 

Zedzero

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Doesn't that defeat the games addiction then? The fact that you never have to worry about your crops ever?? (The real WoW Bane? If they pulled a similar tatic?)
 
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WanderFreak said:
thenumberthirteen said:
Ignoring the price, and idiocy of this. It is a ring of eternal life. Plant life, but still. I get a LOTR vibe from this. It is dark magic.
No mortal man was meant to posses this ring. There will be many given as gifts in the coming days, and with each one further into shadow shall our world pass. This ring shall cover all the lands in darkness!
Me must take it and cast it into the fires from wence it came!
 

dalek sec

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thenumberthirteen said:
Ignoring the price, and idiocy of this. It is a ring of eternal life. Plant life, but still. I get a LOTR vibe from this. It is dark magic.
It's not dark magic dude... it's the ruinious powers of chaos!

On track though this seem's like a really pointless item.
 

Crimsane

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Sulu said:
What a genius game. I played it for a while, never stopped me going to parties or socialising. But many people on this site hate farmville because it is popular but strangely love crappy MMOs like warcraft even though they are popular.
I'm pretty sure they hate Farmville because it's absolutely terrible and shouldn't even be called a game, not because it's popular. WoW is undeniably a game, at least.
 

LiftYourSkinnyFists

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"Announced earlier this week via the FarmVille forums, the ring will be available thru Sunday for the price of 250 dollars of "Farm Cash"."

It's through not thru... and you'll say it's a waste but people pay monthly to play runescape and warcraft... and startrek online. This is just as bad as any of those games.
 

Poofs

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That is a genius idea
think of how many people play that game
they are going to make a killing
Those evil geniuses!
 

The Bandit

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If your crops never die, then what's the point of playing? What other things can you do besides grow crops?
 

Jared

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Unfortunaly too...we al know people who willl prolly do this...

/sigh

Scamming people in new and wonderful ways!
 

SimuLord

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If you're the kind of person who's addicted enough to Farmville that you'd want to purchase an item like this, you're the kind of person who plays Farmville obsessively enough that crop wither is never a problem. I'm not sure just what Zynga's trying to accomplish here.

All I know is that my Facebook feed looks a lot nicer since I figured out how to block applications from appearing in my latest-updates section.
 

likalaruku

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If you can't eat it, wear it, hold it in your hands, or use it to make your house or travel more convinient, it's not worth real money.

The worst digital buy I've ever heard of is pretty much anything on Maple Story. You pay real money for items that expire. You actually can't keep anything you buy for your avatars.
 

Icecoldcynic

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Imagine how pissed off you'd be if you bought that for your partner and then he/she broke up with you, then every time you logged on you'd see all their crops just not dying. That kind of thing could tear someone up inside.
 

mooncalf

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Some people spend that much a week on tobbacco which not only dominates their time but will eventually riddle them with cancer. An imaginary ring is probably a more stable investment than a number of widely held vices... I'm not a smoker, nor will I play farmville, just saying, whatever floats your boat, it's your cash whether you want to save it, spend it or wipe your nose with it.