I have to admit that I play a few of the Facebook games that are out there. I had played more, but found out very quickly that most of them require you to have 782 other facebook friends playing them also. So I am down to 5. Three of them are farming games and two are fish keeping/ fish tank games.
I have noticed some interesting things in these games and also developed a few questions.
- How is it that on one farm pumpkins grow in 1 day but on the other farm it takes 4 days?
- If you don't feed the fish, do they eventually go floating belly-up at the top of the screen?
- Llamas have a tendency to wander.
- These games are highly addictive.
- All animals of the same breed move in perfect repeated motion.
- If you line up the chickens in a row you can make them look like chicken rockettes.
- Sheep give wool, chicken give eggs, cows give milk and elephants give circus peanuts.
- None of the animals give any meat
- These games are highly addictive.
- You can make art patterns with crop planting -- swirls of tomatoes in a field of peas
- You can't sell anything unless you have 5 (or is it 8) other farming friends
- Internet farming is a great way to kill time when you have insomnia
- These games are highly addictive.
- The game Fish World is offering to let you buy a great white shark that will feed on the fish you have grown
- You can teach fish to do tricks
- In one game (Fish World) no matter how many fish you have their hunger is satisfied with 1 bite of food. The other fish game (Happy Aquarium) the fish require enough food to feed Ethiopia for a year.
- These games are highly addictive.
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There was an article about apps, including Zynga's Farmville in the most recent Business Week.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_44/b4153044881892.htm
"Zynga doesn't charge users to play FarmVille, but it does sell digital
crops, cattle, and farmland. Corn seed, for instance, goes for the
equivalent of 10 cents; cows run 20 cents each. All those digital goods
add up. Zynga pulls in its nine-figure annual revenues from FarmVille
and 20 other games.
"
I don't know about you, but I haven't actually paid a cent for any of my crops or animals. It's all been gifts from "neighbors" or reinvesting the proceeds from harvests.
"One recent success: digital sweet potato seeds that cost $5 a packet.
The seeds, which of course cost nothing to duplicate, pulled in more
than $400,000 in three days."
Someone must be paying for this, but if not me, who?
They need a 1-800 help line for facebook games! Don't start playing bejewled blitz or the jungle jewel game...or Cafe World......I need help!
@msmandylee - Hi, My name is Beth, and I'm a facebook Gameacholic
Group: Hi Beth
Me: It has been....1 day since I last played and I am sitting here worrying about my crops... are they withering on the vine? Did I milk the cows?
group: We've all been there, we understand
Guy next to me: Pssstt. are you high enough level to send me an Olive Tree? I need it to get the blue ribbon on my farm.
Hello Beth ,. Please could you tell me , how your mother is . I am one of her xangafriends .
In friendship
Michel