Though most of you believably stop playing the original FarmVille age ago , if you want to get one last hit of nostalgia , today is officially the last solar day you could play the secret plan on Facebook .
Zyngaannouncedthe decision earlier in September , warning the plain non - zero number of FarmVille sports fan who still play the original game . It ’s a little baffling , considering the original FarmVille first debuted 11 years ago in 2009 , and has since engender FarmVille 2 , FarmVille 2 : nation Escape , and FarmVille 3 . To be bonny , FarmVille would ’ve probably continue if it were n’t for the fact that the game runs on Flash and Adobe finallykilled Flash this year .
Still , while the popularity of the original game has since wane , there was once a time where FarmVille defined the Facebook experience . You ’d lumber on and friends you had n’t spoken to in days had left you with a landslip of notifications and poke , take for supporter on their virtual farm . The wise among us brush off the notification . The rest of us eventually got suckle into a fatuous secret plan of planting virtual tomatoes and carrots , which were then harvested and exchanged for … crappy in - biz collectibles and buildings . Some of us may have even spent Real Money to speed up insufferable wait times because who wants to stare at a strawberry mark while for four hour . Some of us — not this writer , nope , no sir — may have forgotten to set an dismay and log on a smidge too belatedly , only to encounter said crop of strawberries had wither and go .
Virtual me is regretting the decision to visit my old FarmVille farm.Screenshot: FarmVille/Zynga
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If you ’ve ever find yourself question your existence , marvel why you , an otherwise rational individual , would be charm to spend genuine , hard - earned money on a trashy roving game , you’re able to thank FarmVille for that . Although FarmVille did n’t invent plot mechanics like actual - time loops orloot boxes , it did playa monumental theatrical role in popularizing themfor the mainstream . Candy Crush Saga , Angry Birds , and all those other liberal - to - swordplay games with infuriating in - app microtransactions all engage a page from FarmVille ’s playbook . That said , its succeeder also changed the gaming landscape , inviting developers to create casual mobile and internet browser games that appealed to wider demographic .
At its peak , FarmVille had 32 million casual dynamic users and a total of 85 million players , according to theNew York Times . By 2013 , it had amassed$1 billion in total player purchases . Its decease is n’t pop off to forget a massive maw in mobile gambling ; there are , after all , numberless knock - off games that are just like it ( as well as several official FarmVille sequels and expansions ) . It is , however , an of import part of advanced gaming story , as is the doubtful bequest it leaves behind .
Out of oddity , I tried logging into my old FarmVille farm . I imagine everything would be wither and numb . I was greet with several notice that FarmVille was about to die , and that to get one last nostalgic joyride , I ’d have to install a Zynga Flash plugin . I did the affair . I was bombard with several notifications of competitions and in - biz events that I ’d missed . Everything loaded so easy . Somehow my fruit trees had n’t died despite over 10 long time of negligence . For reason I ca n’t explain , I found 10 strawberry darn that I will absolutely not check up on on or harvest before this game dies . I was then hit with several more pop - ups . After closing my browser app in thwarting , I retrieve why I stop this secret plan in the first place .
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