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    Farmville: leading the way forward?

    Should publishers be taking note of Farmville’s tremendous commercial success?

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    Damn sheep noises from this game comming from my GF's PC room allways hinder my frags.

    "airstrike incoming"

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    Last edited by Maplassie; 07-12-2009 at 03:42 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maplassie View Post
    Damn sheep comming from my GF's PC room allways hinder my frags.

    "airstrike incomming"

    bhêhêhêhê
    Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!! Classic.

    SheepStrike.
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    Worms anyone?

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    I love how these people make money off lazy people, I played Mafia Wars for a bit one a week a few months ago and I'm doing bloody well probably have a few trillion in the bank right now

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    Saw a friend playing this, felt like taking a fork and sticking it into my leg. How can people enjoy such crap?

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    I have a friend who used to play nothing but WoW, but the kind of guy who has all his friends over and plays all day and all night, skips sleep on the weekends, has a WoW circle for private raids and listened to Dragonforce all day every day.

    All he plays now is Farmville.
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    I played it for a while, it was helluva addictive, but it got old very quickly. Those games lack the necessary depth to keep people interested for long.

    They get their members mostly from suggestions or invites, they used facebook to its full potential by posting content to your wall, all your friends will see it and be annoyed by it.

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    I play FarmVille and quite enjoy it Fun random side-project.

    It just gets a little monotonous harvesting, plowing and planting when your farm gets huge.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lydon View Post
    I play FarmVille and quite enjoy it Fun random side-project.

    It just gets a little monotonous harvesting, plowing and planting when your farm gets huge.
    To remove the monotonous harvesting, whip out your credit card and buy a tracktor. This will allow you to gain an advantage over all your friends or fellow employees and save you time.

    Wanna be the best? Spend a few more bucks and get yourself a Super Tracktor Mark 2 that does everything for you. But get ready to buy the Mark 4 tracktor as soon as your friends buy the Mark 3 one.

    I don't consider stuff like FarmVille games, they exploit peoples boredom and shuts down their brains, turning them into zombies. Those zombies then fork out real world money to get the false sense of being alive making the evil "umbrella" like corporations rich.
    Unfortunately the zombie disease spreads really fast and in this case it's already infected the world and doomed part of the gaming industry.


    Good thing some gamers managed to quarantine themselves from this zombie disease by playing some real games.

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