Although most of you probably stopped playing the original FarmVille a few centuries ago, if you want to get one last hit of nostalgia, today is officially the last day you can play the game on Facebook.
Zynga has announced decision in early September, warning of the seemingly different number of FarmVille fans still playing the original game. It’s a little puzzling, given the original FarmVille first debuted 11 years ago in 2009, and since then it has given birth FarmVille 2, FarmVille 2: Country Escape, and FarmVille 3. To be fair, FarmVille would probably have continued if it weren’t for the fact that the game runs on Flash and Adobe finally killed him on Flash this year.
However, while the popularity of the original game since then it has dropped, it was once FarmVille defined the Facebook experience. You would log in too friendship with whom you hadn’t spoken for years, they had left you with a landslide of notifications and beatings, asking for help on their virtual farm. The sages among us ignored the notifications. The rest of us were eventually drawn into a mindless game of planting tomatoes and virtual carrots, which were then harvested and exchanged for … collections and buildings in play. It is possible that some of us have even spent real money to speed up the unbearable waiting time, because who wants to look at a strawberry patch for four hours. Some of us-not this writer, no, not sir–you may have forgotten to set an alarm and log in on a smidge too late, just for find said the strawberry crop had withered and died.
Iif you’ve ever found it you question your existence, wondering why you, an otherwise rational individual, would be tempted to spend real money, you win hard on an inappropriate mobile game, you can thank FarmVille for that. Although FarmVille did not invent game mechanics, such as real-time loops or prey boxes, played a massive role in their popularization for the mainstream. Candy Crush Saga, Angry Birds and all the others free games for games with angry microtransactions in the application have all taken a page out of the FarmVille game book. That being said, its success has also changed the landscape of games, inviting developers to create casual mobile and browser games that appealed to a wider demographic.
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At its peak, FarmVille had 32 million daily active users and a total of 85 million players, according to New York Times. By 2013, it had accumulated $ 1 billion in total player purchases. It is death will not leave a massive hole in mobile games; Are, after all, countless knock-off games that are just like this (as well as some official FarmVille sequels and expansions). It is, however, an important thing is part of the history of modern games as it is the dubious legacy he leaves behind.
Out of curiosity, I tried to connect to my old FarmVille farm. I imagined that everything would be withered and dead. I was greeted with several remarks that FarmVille was about to die and that, in order to get one last nostalgic joy, I should install a Zynga Flash plugin. I did the job. I was stuck with several notifications about competitions and in-game events that I had missed. Everything loaded so slowly. Somehow my fruit trees hadn’t died in spite over 10 years of neglect. For reasons I can’t explain, I planted 10 strawberry patches that I absolutely won’t check or harvest before this game dies. I was then hit with several pop-ups. After I closed my browser frustrated, I remembered why I gave up this game in the first place.