25 replies to this topic

[Quatrux]

I also don't play Farmville even though it seems to be popular, but now a lot of whom as I noticed stops playing it, I think do to it got bored a little or some newer games have appeared. I don't see any point in games like Farmville, but the fact remains, that it's addicting, when you start playing it, it's quite hard to stop

[Illustrious]

Quatrux, on 06 November 2010 - 09:06 PM, said:

I also don't play Farmville even though it seems to be popular, but now a lot of whom as I noticed stops playing it, I think do to it got bored a little or some newer games have appeared. I don't see any point in games like Farmville, but the fact remains, that it's addicting, when you start playing it, it's quite hard to stop

Well, it depends. I quit right after a few days of playing the game. I (and probably a lot of other people agree with me) really found the game repetitive and boring. I do agree with you with the fact that it is addicting to a lot of people. I believe that most of the reasons why people like to play these games is because they just like the pleasure of seeing their money and exp go up as they progress through the game. Most people do not realize themselves that they like the fact that they get rewarded (with virtual currency/experience) for activities they perform on the game. People also tend to treat virtual pixels as real, tangible items. This may sound weird but just think about it. If you ever played a game say like, "Maplestory", and you get a Zakum Helmet, you get excited and start to brag about all of your friends. This is why MMORPGs like World of Warcraft are so popular and get gamers hooked on (for ridiculous amounts of time). There is an article on Cracked that mentions how players keep playing to avoid losing the things they work for. For example, if you do not water your plants on FarmVille, they will die and you will eventually end up having to plant new ones.

[mahesh2k]

I played bakery game for few weeks and i found it bit addictive. Most of my friends abandoned bakery game now and there is nothing interesting left. Game progresses very slowly and after some time you lose track of it. Farm-ville is on same style of game. It's just that you put more effort with farmville than on bakery. I don't think such games worth it anymore on FB. I'm getting back to same old social stuff.

[Illustrious]

mahesh2k, on 07 November 2010 - 11:30 AM, said:

I played bakery game for few weeks and i found it bit addictive. Most of my friends abandoned bakery game now and there is nothing interesting left. Game progresses very slowly and after some time you lose track of it. Farm-ville is on same style of game. It's just that you put more effort with farmville than on bakery. I don't think such games worth it anymore on FB. I'm getting back to same old social stuff.

Most of the games found on facebook usually have the same concept like Cafe World, Restuarant City, FishVille, YoVille, Hotel City, Happy Pets, Happy Aquarium, etc. These games are going to be dominating the facebook game world for a while before they start to decline. A lot of people seemed to be pretty hooked to these games even though the concept is so simple. Some people don't even go on Facebook for the social network but for the games. These games are just something that "everyone" does. I think that it is the competition between the people in your buddy list that feeds these games. These games are promoted by the players. The games prompt them to send invites to all of their friends in return of an incentive in the game. This is why you get all of these game invitations on facebook.

[mahesh2k]

Illustrious, on 07 November 2010 - 10:43 PM, said:

Most of the games found on facebook usually have the same concept like Cafe World, Restuarant City, FishVille, YoVille, Hotel City, Happy Pets, Happy Aquarium, etc. These games are going to be dominating the facebook game world for a while before they start to decline. A lot of people seemed to be pretty hooked to these games even though the concept is so simple. Some people don't even go on Facebook for the social network but for the games. These games are just something that "everyone" does. I think that it is the competition between the people in your buddy list that feeds these games. These games are promoted by the players. The games prompt them to send invites to all of their friends in return of an incentive in the game. This is why you get all of these game invitations on facebook.

These days i have noticed there is some rise in test or survey based games. For examples, "how cool are you?", find out your favorite color ?" or "where you want to be in next five years". These types of games are annoying and they also take some information from profile and annoy by sending invites. I found more than 10 such invites right now on my facebook page.

I don't know why facebook allow so much lame applications, there should be limit on such apps. and there also needs to be quick opt-out from the apps. Right now it asks us to go through settings in order to remove app which is painful.

[Illustrious]

mahesh2k, on 08 November 2010 - 09:31 AM, said:

These days i have noticed there is some rise in test or survey based games. For examples, "how cool are you?", find out your favorite color ?" or "where you want to be in next five years".

Yesss, I do. The worst application in this category is the app that spams everyones wall with, "________ (insert name here) just answered a question about you." I get those all of the time and it is very annoying.