FarmVille's Secret: Making You Anxious

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by hornokplease • 16 years ago

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Raphael• 16 years ago

It's not that hard to figure out. I started it one day and went back a few days later to see that I had missed the harvest. The fact that the game takes fucking attendance made me realize that Zynga has no respect for players. A game should be there when the player wants it, not the inverse.

jayzee• 16 years ago

I think that I read this in the New Yorker but I could be wrong, but anyways, this writer said that one of Zynga's innovations was being able to attract women to gaming. And it is true. Girls I know who would have never touched an xbox with their stiletto are now on farmville planting crops. So this writer conjectured that it appealed to their nurturing instinct.

So yeah... some gamers would rather have the game take attendance because they have been evolutionarily primed for feeding times.

revorad2• 16 years ago

Blogspam. Original link - http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6224/catching_up_with_...

amadiver• 16 years ago

I've always considered it to be "blogspam", too, but I was just thinking -- isn't this how the internet is supposed to work? Incoming links and all that?

revorad2• 16 years ago

It's ok for blogs to share content from other sites with their own target audience. But it doesn't make sense to post such blog posts to a site like Hacker News, especially when they add no commentary or other value to the original content.

FarmVille's Secret: Making You Anxious

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