Farmville was at 83,755,953 monthly players all-time high, according to Inside Social Games (May 2010). Now the average monthly players are at 47,364,589 MAU (Monthly Average Users), according to App Data, a reliable metric site for Farmville Player Statistics. (Click to enlarge)
I was getting bored and the new English Countryside Farm piqued my interest. But the SHEEP! Oh the sheep, they were the game's saving grace, especially when the ILLEGAL flashers and cammo (Calico on on my Sheep Breeding Guide) were accidentally released.
According to Farmville Freak, Zynga's response is "Certain types of sheep and pig colors/patterns not yet released have been improperly distributed in FarmVille; we are currently going through the process of making sure this practice stops."
Oh so they had these patterns and someone stole them. While I will agree, this is wrong. Zynga is ruining their reputation by their poor public relations stance on this issue. With a whopping loss of over 36 million players worldwide, it would be in Zynga's best interest to do some quick damage control.
A lot of my blogs readers, over 16,000 to date (with 98% occurring in the past month!), have commented to me that they love breeding the new sheep and pigs. It made the loading issues, the lost gifts, the boring/repetitive parts of the game, etc. worthwhile. See proof of my blog's stats below:(Click to enlarge)
I read a lot of the posts on the Farmville Freak link (see link above). The one that really got me was the one from a mother saying how her son would be excited every day after school. He couldn't wait to play Farmville and breed the cool sheep and pigs. She stated that she and her husband spent money buying him Farmville Dollars (not to be confused with coins, which you earn in the game) so he could have the Love Potions and Bottles he needed to breed.
The only way I see that Zynga can save face and prevent losing a ton of more players is to introduce these sheep and pigs NOW or ASAP for FARMVILLE COINS NOT FARMVILLE DOLLARS. Guess I'll be playing Big Fish Games for awhile or try Farm Town again.
WOW!!! That is a loss of 36,391,364 players!!
I was getting bored and the new English Countryside Farm piqued my interest. But the SHEEP! Oh the sheep, they were the game's saving grace, especially when the ILLEGAL flashers and cammo (Calico on on my Sheep Breeding Guide) were accidentally released.
According to Farmville Freak, Zynga's response is "Certain types of sheep and pig colors/patterns not yet released have been improperly distributed in FarmVille; we are currently going through the process of making sure this practice stops."
Oh so they had these patterns and someone stole them. While I will agree, this is wrong. Zynga is ruining their reputation by their poor public relations stance on this issue. With a whopping loss of over 36 million players worldwide, it would be in Zynga's best interest to do some quick damage control.
A lot of my blogs readers, over 16,000 to date (with 98% occurring in the past month!), have commented to me that they love breeding the new sheep and pigs. It made the loading issues, the lost gifts, the boring/repetitive parts of the game, etc. worthwhile. See proof of my blog's stats below:(Click to enlarge)
The only way I see that Zynga can save face and prevent losing a ton of more players is to introduce these sheep and pigs NOW or ASAP for FARMVILLE COINS NOT FARMVILLE DOLLARS. Guess I'll be playing Big Fish Games for awhile or try Farm Town again.
hey ,you pretty much covered everything, as far as it being wrong,well thats their legitimate reason for their action, but I cant really recognize that for being as such. In my opinion there is no "real" reason for it ,its just their policy.
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jenny brewer
Hey, it's not just the loading issues (which are far worse on other games by zynga)... I did quit FV ages ago and got back to it in February (thanks to the sis of my ex) but lately I find myself going lesser to the game than I was in the last 3 months, the limited sheep-breeding and such is making it boring by now and I was all hyped up due to the whole EC but now that I nearly mastered that one and gained about 40 levels, FV gets boring and zynga already made a few moves they shouldn't have...after all they should listen more to us every now and then, it won't hurt... greetz from Germany, Petra
ReplyDeleteI had stopped playing and resumed in March last year after I heard it was the number one Facebook game on the radio. I would play every now and then, loving their new enhancements but after a year, I don't want to see the same old things. (i.e. Spring Basket) I have lost interest now, unless things change.
ReplyDeleteWell they do need to address the loading issue, the game sometimes says "out of sync with server" as soon as you enter your farm. I think some are fed up with whole breeding thing with the load of plain ewes and rams coming from patterned parents. Personally I think the offspring of the sheep and pigs should be a mixture of both parents not either one or the other. For example: Purple Sow and Beige Boar should produce a Lilac coloured boar or sow baby.
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