My Farmville prediction




I think farmville is going to slowly lose its popularity and people will start getting bored of it. i personally don't play farmville much though my farm is now well maintained by my sister. Prefer Tennis Mania. But I know lots of people who do, but are not that rampant now as they were before. Farmville was differnt( though the idea was ripped off from elsewhere and implemented on a farm). The fact that you could interact with your friends and pass on gifts and fertilize their farms made it a very good social networking game. People who did not keep in touch were suddenly sending gifts to each other everyday. Also building something from scratch is nice and people started having farms. The fact that you needed to come back and harvest your crop regularly made it addictive and made sure people did not leave theirs farms. Soon there were competitions among friends to see who has a better farm.
But then what happened, or is happening or I think will happen is - people cant afford to spend so much time on their farms. When the excitement/ interest for a certain thing is more than the value you place on the time taken, you go ahead with it. Slowly the excitement of people is coming down. After you have a nice farm with a cow shed and 3-4 tractors- What next? There doesn't seem to be a definite end to building your farm which makes people lose the sense of achievement after adding something to your farm.Its like when you buy a new house you are all excited about decorating it and you keep buying stuff and doing your interiors. After sometime when you are settled , you don't really have to interest to keep doing more. The fact that your crop dies if you don't harvest it soon enough will further bore people and make them want to leave the farm altogether. That coupled with the fact that you don't have a "harvest all" option and that little fella takes so much time to move all over the farm makes it very time consuming.
So however popular it is, Farmville is on the decline. Give me a car racing game or a tennis mania game -where I can just play a game and forget about it - anyday

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