As a compensation for its FarmVille players, Zynga has awarded farmers (who have placed a Snowman on their farms) with 20 free farm cash because of problematic issues due to the Snowman feature that has been causing havoc on our farms and causing more “Bah Humbug” than Christmas cheer.
You do not need to do anything special to get the free farm cash. It will automatically be added to your total accumulated farm cash.
FarmVille Snowman Issues & 20 Free Farm Cash
Thoughts? Do you accept Zynga’s farm cash apology?
This week’s FarmVille Freak Farm of the Week goes to FarmVille Freak Quackers the Duck.
He has created a classic hay bale art farm with Zynga’s Zing the Christmas Elf as an inspiration. One word- AmaZING (pun intended).
FarmVille Freak Quackers The Duck's Tribute to Zing Farm (Click to Enlarge)
“Greetings, FarmGoddess
I’ve been playing Farmville since the day it was released and have been following your site since you guys launched it. First of all, I wish to congratulate you guys here at FarmvilleFreak for being such a success and the #1 Farmville fan Site out there. It’s been quite a journey on the farm, Farmville & Farmvillefreak have come a long way.
Second, for well over a year I’ve had the chance to see some pretty awesome farms out there, many of them posted on here as “Farm of the Week” and a lot of them have included hay bale stacking in their designs. The holiday season this year has ruined my mastery oriented farm, and I’ve gone down from 580 Plots to only 4 plots which are now part of my holiday design. This holiday season I was inspired to doing my first ever hay bale art design, a tribute to Zing, the Christmas Elf. Just thought I’d share it with you guys, it might not be the BEST but I think it came out great, even after i couldnt finish his golden hair after reaching the maximum number of items allowed on the farm.
Happy Holidays to all, AND KEEP WARM!
FarmvilleFreak, Quackers The Duck.”
If you think you got what it takes to be our FarmVille Freak Farm of the Week, send your submissions to farmgoddess@farmvillefreak.com
UPDATE: FaceBook is now back up and the poll has been closed!
Breaking News as of 3:30 PM Central US Time.
We have had several reports from FarmVille Freaks that when they try to access FaceBook in order to get to their farms they are greeted with a blank page!
With that being said, FarmVille.com is still loading however, when you try to connect to your farm you will also get a blank screen.
The Crunchies Award has returned once again, and FarmVille needs its dedicated farmers to vote FarmVille for the 2010 Crunchies Best Time Sink Application!
Due to our votes last year, FarmVille won the Best Social App award last year (you can check out the post here). Can we do it again this year for our favorite game?
Vote for FarmVille for The Crunchies Awards
Hi Farmers! Show your love for planting, plowing, growing and gaming by voting for FarmVille for the 2010 Crunchies Best Time Sink Application!
Grimwell hosts this week’s podcast. This podcast reveals a little more details about the upcoming FarmVille Orchards and how they will work as well as some exciting news about new limited edition giftable seeds, like this Halloween’s Black Rose crop! Read more in the coming soon section for all the details.
You can listen to the podcast video above, read the FarmVille Freak Summary below, or read the entire transcript, provided by Zynga, at the bottom of the post.
What do you think about the news from this week’s podcast? Discuss!
FarmVille Freak October 23rd 2010 Podcast Summary
Halloween in FarmVille
Can “trick” your neighbors by covering their fences, barns, or trees in cobwebs or by turning their animals into ghosts.
5 times on each of your neighbors famers
Spooky effect can be purchased for 2 FV$
Re-releases like the Haunted House and new LE Halloween items
Avatar Upgrades
You can now purchase clothing for your farmer avatar with coins or farm cash
Halloween Costumes for Avatars
Will only be in the market until Halloween theme expires
If you purchase, you can keep costumes forever and can wear year-round
Farmer’s Insurance in FarmVille
Limited promotion lets you place the Farmer’s Insurance Airship on your farm for wither protection
For farmers located in the United States only
Ends October 28th 2010
Mobile Farming Update
New exclusive app for iPad
Makes use of the iPad’s large display to show more of the farm
Improved mobile interface
Free through iTunes Apple app store
New Apple only gifts will be coming soon (free Apple giftables)
FarmVille Youtube channel
The release of each major theme will have previews
Features animations of new items
Located at youtube.com/FarmVille
User-submitted questions
FarmVille reveals that Chicken coop expansion could be in the future.
Country fair theme could be returning to FarmVille.
COMING SOON
Orchards are coming soon
Orchards will be a constructible buildings
You can place up to 20 trees in each Orchard and you can have more than one.
The appearance of your Orchard depends on the trees you put inside.
Orchards can be harvested once per day for coins.
Harvesting your Orchard yields the possibility of receiving a Mystery seed.
Mystery Seeds can grow into any type of tree in your Orchard and must be planted and watered before they mature into a fully grown version of their parent tree.
Enhanced trees will be part of the Tree Mastery.
You can progress as you harvest Orchard or individual trees.
There will be 3 levels of mastery with rewards for each level.
There will also be mastery signs given after mastery is complete.
Gifted Limited Edition Seeds
You will be able to gift your neighbors packets of 20 seeds.
Once you accept a gifted seed it can be found in the market.
You can then plant the seeds on your farm and will also be able to master!
The seeds will also be available for farm cash.
The Black Rose Crop coming soon!
-For Halloween as the first giftable Limited Edition seed crop.
Another Limited Edition Halloween themed building is now available to make your farm spookier. The Haunted Bell Tower was a previously unreleased item on FarmVille Freak.
You can purchase this LE building only for the next 12 days.
FarmVille LE Halloween Buildings (Released October 20, 2010):
Haunted Bell Tower – 28 $FV
FarmVille Haunted Tower
Will you purchase the Haunted Bell Tower? Send pics of your Halloween or Fall themed farm to farmgoddess@farmvillefreak.com and we may feature them on FarmVIlleFreak.com
Zynga continues to have fun conquering the West with yet another Zynga branch. This time the acquisition is due to the purchase of BonFire Studios which expands the Zynga empire to Dallas, Texas.
This will mark the second location in Texas, as there is already a Zynga-Austin, and makes the number of Zynga locations in the United States increase to a total of six.
Zynga’s Press Release can be read below,
Zynga Dallas: Giddy Up!
Yeehaw! We’re thrilled to announce that Zynga is moving into the world of boots and BBQ today, with the acquisition of Bonfire Studios. Bonfire Studios brings world-class talent and an impressive résumé to the Zynga team, some of their employees having created popular PC and Xbox 360 games, such as Age of Empires, Age of Mythology and Halo Wars.
Starting today, Bonfire Studios becomes Zynga Dallas and will be developing original IP for the company – with Bonfire founders David Rippy, Bill Jackson and Scott Winsett leading the charge. David will serve as GM of Zynga Dallas, Scott will be senior art director and Bill will act as the creative director. Additional information on each included below:
David Rippy: Game industry veteran of over 15 years; served as president and CEO of Bonfire Studios and established the company’s vision, culture and direction
Bill Jackson: A veteran programmer and producer; was in charge of the creative direction of Bonfire’s projects, specifically with driving the creation of Bonfire’s original IP
Scott Winsett: Defined the visual style for Bonfire’s titles, with more than 14 years of relevant experience; strong leadership experience in the games industry with serving as the art lead on Age of Empires, The Rise of Rome Expansion and Halo Wars” (Source: Zynga)
Do to an overwhelming response to our FarmVille Freak Denise’s Corn Maze post, we have added a gallery for all our subscribed FarmVille Freaks to upload their own Corn Maze! Just click the Add Image link to upload your screen shot!
FarmVille Freak "Dislikes" today's FaceBook Outage. Where is the "Dislike Button" anyways?!??!
Earlier today, FaceBook went down and everyone freaked out!
FarmVille Freaks were worried about their farms, crops, and beloved Puppies going hungry. Mobsters were on edge from being forced to take a break from whacking people and all the other millions of people who have some sort of alternative internet career in the realms of social gaming no less worried about something. Oh and then there are those other people, who still use FaceBook for purposes other than gaming, well they were worried too.
Even though the outage was only for 2.5 hours, panic was widespread. The world reacted and news of the outage made both national and international headlines. According to FaceBook this is the worst outage that they have experienced in four years. So what did happen? If you want to read all the nerdy technical details about today’s outage, click here. If not, just be happy knowing that it works now and that even though FaceBook was down, Zynga was still looking out for all its addicts farmers. Unwither was turned on and Puppy starving was disabled.
Now, if only FaceBook could fix our disabled FarmVille Freak FaceBook Fan Page. That’s probably asking for too much.
So what would we do without FaceBook? What happens if it really did “break”?
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