Idk if anyone else had this happen but when I made a Facebook account for the first time my dad commandeered my account to have yet another FarmVille account. My man was running my mom's farm, my farm, the farm of my brother, and my grandma's too. He would cycle through them periodically throughout the day and time the crops to make sure he maximized efficiency.
That doesn't really have anything to do with this game, but I thought it was worth sharing. I think FarmVille of days past really was something special though. It was a simple idle game, but it had lots of community events, special integration for Facebook leaderboards, lots of different trees and animals and crops, and a weirdly good theme song.
As always though, the game quickly jumped the shark and went from a simple but effective farming sim to an absolute juggernaut of bloated content. The game surely would have died much sooner if not for these additions, but it seriously damaged the game's quality as a result. A sad, slow decline for a game I remember playing fondly.
That doesn't really have anything to do with this game, but I thought it was worth sharing. I think FarmVille of days past really was something special though. It was a simple idle game, but it had lots of community events, special integration for Facebook leaderboards, lots of different trees and animals and crops, and a weirdly good theme song.
As always though, the game quickly jumped the shark and went from a simple but effective farming sim to an absolute juggernaut of bloated content. The game surely would have died much sooner if not for these additions, but it seriously damaged the game's quality as a result. A sad, slow decline for a game I remember playing fondly.
I used to play this back in the day and there's nothing here you can't just get from a decent Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons game or Stardew Valley. but I mostly remember this because my dad was utterly obsessed with Farmville. was awkward as a middle schooler to explain to your peers that your dad was obsessed with a Facebook game
I was waaay obsessed with this game. I would be on during classes, stalking my feed for strawberry cows and golden chickens. And I always made sure to plant watermelons before going on vacation, since they took four days to grow, then another four days before they wilted. Can't lose my crops for a week in Disneyland!
Facebook games were a fleeting and interesting sensation and Farmville was the one I played the most. I was 12 when I played it and hadn't had really any experience with farming sim games, so this one hooked me and I have quite a bit of nostalgia for it. But now I've played lots of amazing farming games and Farmville just really isn't anything special. Just a surface-level clicking game
I recognise this game is vile and has probably caused severe harm to the medium in the long run, but playing it on my grandmother's laptop as a five-year old child too young to understand what money is and with no means of getting it probably did teach me to enjoy busywork and boringitude as entertainment. So maybe Farmville is the reason I'm a spreadsheet hound? Honestly I miss my farm a lot