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With FarmVille, Zynga Joins the Facebook Farming Fray
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Submitted 2 years ago
backtoreality says,
These guys are all coping each other -- there are a ton of farming games now on myspace and facebook. Ironically, all of these games came from Chinese gaming networks. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
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Article excerpt from insidesocialgames.com — "Farming games are the most popular games on Chinese social networks, and they're starting to gain more steam on Facebook now too. The first was myFarm, but then SlashKey.com came along and had much more success with Farm Town (which actually debuted at #4 in the Top 25 two months ago and is still pretty popular today). Though it wasn't an...

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Posted 2 years ago
the only one I really play is FarmTown and I haven't in awhile. Got bored with it. plus...my dang crops kept going to waste lol

It's starting to be the same on all websites it seems like. All the games are the same just named different.
and yup..Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
 
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Posted 2 years ago
Oh, hey, BlondeAquarius! Long time, no see. :)

I agree. When customers flock to one type of game, all the copycats come out of the woodworks. Unless the original game sucks, I'd rather see innovation, rather than several of the same kind.
 
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Posted 2 years ago
heyas ebeast! :) yeah it has been awhile lol

I got my son into it yesterday now. he likes Farm Town better (only because I hired him to harvest a ton of crap and he made gold off it)
lol

I usually like the original games better then the "knock-offs".
I've even seen a generic brand for the Wii in a Family Dollar store.
 
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Posted 2 years ago
I've even seen a generic brand for the Wii in a Family Dollar store.


OH yea? what is? what dollar store?
 
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