FarmVille Developer Offers $42 Virtual Item

[Sevre]

As if your life didn't suck enough already, now you can buy this!

 

[MurderousToaster]

Zynga's ruthless profiteering has once again shone through

Hooraaay.

 

[Carnagath]

Uh-huh. I know 3 girls who would kill for this. Of course they believe that the "real" games out there are for losers. It just blows my mind how a game that simple and pointless can become so addicting that people just spend insane amounts of money on it, I mean seriously, this ring could get you laid and I am not even being ironic. So, uhm... What was I saying? Wait, brb, credit card.

 

[Premonition]

Step 1: Go outside
Step 2: make your own damned plot where you can grow crops
Step 3: Buy equipment and seeds
Step 4: Give THAT as a gift.

Seriously, guys...

 

[brunothepig]

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.

You contradicted yourself. I, and many others, hate farmville because it is painfully simple and barely earns the title "game". It's just a massive time sink of developing a routine. Like the sims, but much much simpler. I played it for maybe a week before it got way too boring to stand. And could you give reason, or provide some form of defense, for your opinion, before just flaming WoW? I don't know if it's good or not, I've never played it, but a lot of my friends have enjoyed it, or still do.
Anyway, I really hope my mum doesn't find out about this, although I think she devoted life, and my bandwidth, to the cafe one now.

 

[Mordwyl]

FarmVille is not a game. Why are people still calling it that?

 

[Distorted Stu]

Ughh.. wait till me friend sees this. She still plays farmville like its her relgion.

 

[Negative]

I say good on the FarmVille developers.

If some idiot is willing to pay $42 dollars, let them and it's easy cash.

 

[messy]

So basically this is a ploy to make Facebook's and Myspace's user base look bigger? Because all most people will do is create a new user account and gift it to themselves.

I never thought of that, there is a level of genius to this. Although farmville is not directly down by the facebook team (according to an article in the Economist about social networking and apps etc.) but it'll increase the farmville player base as well

 

[samsonguy920]

Personally, I'm sold on the idea. Is there a better way to say "I love you" than with an overpriced cheat code to make an already brain-dead simple game even easier?

A Mediterranean cruise? Box of chocolates? A hand drawn card? A kick in the shins?

Okay, maybe not that last one.

Maybe.

Unless your dearest is a Farmville junkie, a kick in the shins might just be what you'll get for giving them this.
Gotta give the creators of Farmville their due, they are evil geniuses. But I am glad I am not a part of their converted zombies.

 

[MaltesePigeon]

Wow. Today I was just thinking, "Yeah the lawn is covered in snow, but in just a few months I will have to get the rototiller out, plant some tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers in my garden, then water them and tie them to stakes as they grow."

WITH THAT RING I CAN START PLANTING TODAY!

Oh. It's just for a game about farming. Sorry. I feel stupid.

 

[Erana]

And with that money, how many different Harvest Moon games could you buy?
I'm sorry, but if you don't want them to wither, play a game that waits for you.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Making money off of people's addictions. Something both drug dealers and Facebook do.

 

[Snotnarok]

I never got the stupid facebook games, I don't see the charm or interest in them. I guess it might be the collection of games I racked up vs playing some stupid game which has you actively dump money into.

 

[Gaias]

Seems like a pretty good idea to me. Divesting stupid people of money is always a winner in my books. Keeps them away from being able to by substances that can kill other people when the realise how sad their existence has become.

 

[lee1287]

ugh. i could buy DI for that.

 

[NLS]

This is just plain evil.

 

[Irishhoodlum]

For $42 you could buy CSS, TF2, a coke and maybe some skittles. Why would anyone possibly buy this? Oh right people are retarded.

 

[kaziard]

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.

UM, where to start lol? Warcraft is not an MMO, crappy or otherwise, its a rather ingenious RTS game that was released quite a few years ago. On another note WoW (which i assume your meaning) has an incredible amount of different facets of gameplay, with loads of different things to do. Farmville however is a shallow, 2d flash game for 10 minutes of boredom supression at work. Hell i hate WoW but even i wouldnt equate it to Farmville, lol.

OT: This is Hilariously awful, i hope to god there isnt anyone desperate enough to buy it.....there isnt......right?