News: Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addiction

[News Bot]

MarkN writes "Facebook has been trumpeting the fact that Farmville, the most popular game on its site, has more users than Twitter, with 69 million playing over a month and 26 million playing each day. Combined with Facebook's announcement that they have hit 350 million users, that means one out of every five people on Facebook is playing Farmville. Gamasutra has a post taking a critical analysis of Farmville, its deceptively slow level grind, how a number of gameplay features end up as simply decorative since they aren't balanced with the benefits of raising crops, and discussing why Farmville succeeds so well in virally spreading itself and addicting people."


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[g0odtimes]

That totally boggles my mind! I cannot stand Farmville! I have ignored/blocked all application requests from that and any game for that matter. It just slows down your FB profile!

[AlexGold]

Originally Posted by g0odtimes

That totally boggles my mind! I cannot stand Farmville! I have ignored/blocked all application requests from that and any game for that matter. It just slows down your FB profile!

Well I was also like that but finally I succumb to the fact that I'm addicted to the game
I don't spend that much time playing it as other people do but still I love to check the game every couple of days. And considering that all of my friends are sending me gifts and stuff on facebook it's hard not to get involved.
Cheers!

[Ze-Tomb]

I stay away form Myspace, Facebook, Bebo and everything else.
I keep my simple MSN & Forums.
I do not like those website as they share information and what not and allow people to talk and put comments that I disapprove and find out where I am. Which is exactly what I don't want.
And also it proves my existance in the 'big social eye' to some people.

I love my Forums. ^_^

[TheOneOmega]

Heh, I know several people who play the game. It looks quite...non-entertaining from an outside perspective.

[MarieWoodell]

I've started playing it recently. its actually surprisingly addictive in a weird non addictive kinda way. Very hard to describe but I'm playing it so somehow I'm hooked despite also not liking the look of it at first. I have found I can add all the other people playing it to a list on the facebook settings though and only spam them with my updates and gifts.

[W_Jeff]

I agree, i have just started playing it and it is strangely addictive.