Man....if you really want to see it in action, join Facebook and play Farmville. What a ...uhh...herd...of messed up whiners get going on there when new items or promotions happen. Lately, there is a new cow or new sheep that will be offered depending how many fans the cow or sheep get. There is a list telling you that it will cost 12 FV dollars...which is real money...if they get x amount of fans down to a free one if they get like some ungodly 11 million fans. So...cow is most popular and now anyone can become a fan to buy the cow for 12 FV....they are being nice enough that if enough people become fans the price will come down, revert to coins, ect. So what happens....a crap ton of morons start posting reams of BS about what a scam it is, they deserve it for free and bitch and bitch and whine and bitch. It is truly frigging sad...so I posted a message: And look at the goodie I got in my PM there: I left it at this: I mean, the woman who contacted me was probably 50 if a day. Crazy people. There is a guy even complaining if it reverts to the coin currency....it's too expensive because cows should only be 100 coins and not 5,000. I can't tell you how easy it is to make 5,000 coins. I think it's a very sad barometer of the people are thinking about life in general...they deserve whatever they want for free and they want it right now. When it's permeated to silly games, I wonder if it's possible to reverse the course at this point??
They never let poor Muad, Play in any Facebook games. Meh! I never got into any of the Facebook games. I waste enough time here with you losers. Awwwww... My friends. Give us a hug.
My wife plays FV so i get a look inside that world (and Zoo and a couple others). the thing that trips me out the most is Zoo World players who (think) they have discovered a gimmick wherein, if you don't click the little green check mark (essentially an "ok" button) when you adopt an animal, others can get it. Let one prson screw that up for them and they bitch and they moan and the cry andthe yell about the MORON who clicked the check mark. It's just a game people! (Oh, and since they started bitching we make a point that she clicks as many check marks as she can get too. )
I dunno. I lost interest somewhere around “There’s this game called Farmville that consists mainly of people on Facebook buying imaginary livestock to put on an imaginary farm, and some of them actually pay *real money* for the privilege.” If that in itself isn’t an indicator of the continuing downspiral of Western society...
I agree - we both laugh at the idea anyone would pay actual money for these games but then, when you come down to it....how is it different than people who spend 20, 40, 50 dollars for a computer game in a box to (a) direct the lives of imaginary people (b) take the lives of imaginary enemies (c) and so forth? Really, where you spend a a dollar at a time on a facebook sim game or 30 in one pop to buy a copy of "The Sims" - what's the difference?
No difference, really. Now, to be funny, I thought I'd try farmville without adding friends, without buying their dollars, and without expanding the farm. That way I can avoid all the BS from everywhere and just harvest my fake crops every 4 days.
Wow, and I thought that I played Farmville too much! (I do, but apparently I pale in comparison to some folks). I'm level 55 (56?), I've got $4 million coins and 30ish FV$, and I go on there several times a day to tend my crops, yet I'll never spend a friggin' dime of real money on it. Even so, I realize that Zynga (makers of FV and many other online games) are in business to make money, and I don't begrudge them that. There are enough people in the world that will spend real money on the game. And Tamar's right...they generally are pretty good about including coins-only options. I *do* wish they'd give you some sort of option to convert coins into FV$ somehow...like maybe $5M coins converts to FV$5 or something like that. Make the conversion rate high enough and it won't be abusable. But I'm not going to go bitching about it on a Farmville message board!
Not to turn this into a farmville-fest, but how do I get more fuel? O.o Other than spending their fake dollars, I mean.
It's called hijacking fuel shipments. Get someone to hack other peoples farms and when they buy fuel you take .001 off their received fuel. They won't notice but you'll be raking in fuel from millions of people. It's like Office Space but in a game with fake fuel and stuff.... You've seen Office Space right?
This is what I've learned from my wife's page: Back when the main game was Zoo World, she found it helpful to go to the discussion board and add a bunch of friends that are complete strangers who are just "zoo friends" (probably 50 or so of them in all) As it turns out, those who play zoo that much play several other games including, of course, Farmville. So....her feed is filled every day with those incessent "Mary Sue was plowing her field and found fuel" or "Bobby Joe has a new baby calf" or whatever and as you know, when one of those notices appears, you can claim it (the calf, fuel, whatever) So a couple of times a day she scrolls through a few hours worth of these notices claiming everything she can (that she needs and that hasn't already expired). She doesn't use a lot of fuel but any time she does that there's always half a dozen or more chances to claim fule. And if she can claim something she doesn't need - if it will sell for a decent price she claims it anyway just to raise money. In short - the best way to get a lot of anything on those games is to have a LOT of friends who play them faithfully who'll thereby put stuff in the feed for you to claim. Personally, I don't like having a lot of total strangers on my friends list so I never followed that road but there it is.
Ayup. That's the way Pirates is as well. The decisive factor of whether you win fights is how many friends you have. Fairly early on I had to add a couple "friends" if I wanted to remain competitive at all, but they were almost real friends--they were people I interacted with through the game. Then a couple weeks ago I started getting attacked regularly by this chick. I couldn't beat her without putting a bounty out on her and that didn't stop the attacks. Ignoring her didn't work either. So I finally sucked it up and joined a Pirates group and just added a dozen complete strangers just so I could stomp this broad. Now that I've beaten her and completed all the tasks on the game I may consider quitting and de-friending all my mercenaries. (I know, it is sad and bizarre. )
If you go and fertilize your neighbors crops, you can get fuel. Or you can buy it. I'm addicted to the game but I don't spend any money on it, I just am patient and get a new FV dollar for each level.
I never heard of this game until I saw a woman on Dr. Phil on the show that was addicted to this game to the point of playing 19 hours a day and forgetting to pick up her kids from school once for this shit.
Yeah I never got the whole Farmville (or any on line game) that costs real money to play like this. I played around with Farm Town, got to the highest level and that was about that.
TKO, if you complete a Collection, you receive 5 FULL fuel refills! It's worth it! Also, the whole "Holiday tree/presents" thing was a bonanza of Fuel for me. I ended up with like 85 Fuel refills out of it. Spending it slowly and generous use of completed collections and freebie refills from neighbors means that I still have ~50 fuel refills currently.
I finished all the tasks on Pirates. Now I'm playing partly out of habit, partly because I still want to continue to stomp the chick that was being a pain in my butt for a bit, and partly because i want to master all the skills on the board (get to 100% on Level 3 warship, for example). Besides, if I get done, I'll wind up starting Mafia Wars.
Some people are very easily parted from their money. Some people whine a lot. Sometimes they overlap.
