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FarmVille Water Shortage Will Improve with Water from Orchards!
FarmVille Watering Can
Water! Water! Water! We are in desperate need of water. Thankfully, it looks like there is good news for every arborist enthusiast farmer who may be dealing with a water shortage on their farms.
FarmVille’s blog is reporting that as soon as next week FarmVille Orchards will soon produce Water Cans for you to use on your Mystery Seedlings. According to the blog entry, the number of Water Cans the Orchard yields is yet to be determined. However, when you do not produce your own Mystery Seedling, it’s safe to say that you’ll be gifted with water instead. This is a welcomed upgrade, especially since the FarmVille Snowman will no longer produce Water Cans sometime soon.
FarmVille Water From Orchards News
What do you think about this new addition to the Orchard? We want to hear what FarmVille Freaks have to say, especially our tree-loving freaks!
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Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:43 pm
cool!! But this was already on other site…
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:46 pm
This is great news!!! I hate having to go hunting for water!!!
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Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:48 pm
This ROCKS! Thanks Zynga!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Snowmen are going to stop giving water? Boooooo. As long as they don’t stop dancing!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:50 pm
“when you do not produce your own Mystery Seedling” .. how are we going to get the mystery seedling .. Good news about water but question mark on seedlings
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:53 pm
snowmen are going to stop giving water … there is no point in that whatsoever!!! It is what keeps me afloat!!! No pun intended lol
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:53 pm
Thank GOD they finally got a clue and are going to help us out more. I have to delete all my seedlings now because I’m soooooooooo far behind, even with tons of gifting and collecting from the news feed.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:53 pm
THANK GOD!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:54 pm
what a bunch of poo, i just spent all this fc to finish my snowmen for watering cans
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:55 pm
what do you mean the snowmen will no longer work…………i worked very hard at getting to be self sufficient by building 30 snowmen…so i would not have to rely on others. this really STINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:55 pm
This great I am glad they are thinking a head
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:55 pm
this is great news, now I won’t have to troll the feed or beg my friends to send it to me
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Not fair for the snow men to quit giving water after we worked so hard to build them to get the water
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:56 pm
you could have told us before we built all those snowmen
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Yaaayyyy!!!!!! I’m so tired to trolling for water and begging. Now maybe I can get on with some other things…
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:57 pm
What about all the people who paid real money to make their snowmen? If I were one of them, I’d be very angry with zynga. I was >< that close to buying more of the things.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:57 pm
its great idea shouldve done in the begging or at least make it so u can buy water with coins instead of farm cash and as far the valentine trees why couldnt u make them coins
and this is for the 1 person that commented the other site is a real one they always try getting do offers or some kinda of bs
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:57 pm
wow. i spent farmcash so i could have all those snowmen. i get 11 a day. there’s no way i’ll be able to keep up now. i have 10 orchards. what am i supposed to do?
i spent f*cking cash so i could have endless cans!
the eff, zynga?
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:58 pm
I cannot believe I have driven myself nuts making snowmen for water and they are going to stop producing!!!! THAT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 9:58 pm
I have about 18 snowmen… I thought that they would continue to produce watering cans… that is why I have so many. Not sure why they will do away with them producing water??!! Wish they would leave them as they are!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:00 pm
THAT’S CRAP….after all the work? Money? to take the water cans away from the snowmen…that should have been posted before hand. What a waste of time and effort we put into these. So many of my neighbors did the same and we all worked hard in helping each other. Sad sad day that will be.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:00 pm
I built 25 snowmen……..all the hassle and aggravation..and they’re going to shut them off??????????????? I doubt the orchards will us 75 cans a day, like I’m getting now. Would have been nice to know that before I built them all!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:00 pm
THE SNOWMEN ARE NO LONGER GIVING WATERING CANS?? THEN WHY DID I SPEND ALL THAT TIME AND EFFORT BUILDING THEM???
I was about to say that I have this covered since I built 7 snowmen, but then I read the part about them not giving water anymore. WTF!?
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:02 pm
OK,,all of this sounds good,,but I produce about 15 min seeds per day,,,that is where all my collecting of the 125 has been spent, and my snowmen,,they also keep me afloat and others too…and I keep only a few and post about half of the seeds ,all the better ones I hope..sounds like odds and evens game but hoping it is for the better.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:02 pm
I’m going to delete all my snowmen when they stop producing water. That’s the only reason I made all of them.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:03 pm
I hardly need water anymore.
I don’t grow any trees because I’ve mastered all the trees that can grow up at the moment!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:04 pm
I thought they were permanent, and time limit was only on their building! not on their very existence! WTF? Now Zynga wants us to spend FVC even on Watering cans? And how much Watering Cans will an Orchard yield! 1, 2 or 3? I have 34 Orchards, and even if half of them produce 1 watering can, that would be like just 17 watering cans every 2 DAYS! I had 10 Snowmen, that meant 30 Watering Cans DAILY!
Zynga should just shamelessly put a DONATE sign, rather than taking away useful features and expecting us to pay in real for them!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Wait what! They are going to turn off the snowman! NO!! I spend a LOT of FC getting 4 up and running! They ate what are allowing me to have seedlings. If they take that way they can at least drop the required number of cans to 5.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Okay seriously, what the frick? There’s no need to stop the snowmen from producing watering cans. some of us have quite a few of these on our farms and like having those extra cans on hand. I have A LOT of orchards on my farms so even with them producing watering cans I still wouldn’t have enough. Let’s leave the snowmen alone!!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:08 pm
WHY ARE THEY STOPPING THE SNOWMEN FROM PRODUCING THE WATERING CANS. THAT STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN. IT TOOK CONSIDERABLE EFFORT TO PRODUCE THE DARNED SNOWMEN AND THE DANCE IS CUTE ….BUT THEY TRULY SERVED A PURPOSE AND MADE ALL THE WORK COLLECTING AND WAITING FOR THE 16 PILES OF SNOW, STRUGGLING TO GET THREE BUTTONS, A SCARF AND A HAT, WORTH WHILE. NOW THEY ARE GONNA BE DEFUNCT. LIKE I SAID THAT STINKS!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:10 pm
No more water from our snowmen? I want the money back I spent to finis them all.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Figures I just bought the hat since it was ending to buy in an hour and I never could get it through the friend request despite my neighbors efforts to send it. Its amazing how the snowman worked for some people and not others. And complaining did no good – all you got is a response to read the known issues….which totally did not answer your question.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:11 pm
How the He** is this suppose to help. I can’t harvest my orchards because I have over 100 damn seedlings as it is. That over 1000 needed watercans. Everytime I harvest the orchards, over half produce seedlings. Even if the rest of the orchards produce watercans I’m still up a creek.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:11 pm
iam quitting fv, i have all these snowmen for water and now this. iam done iam sick of this game and all their dumb things they do. very dissappointed
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Oooooooooo love it I always need loads and the snowman and the feed are my only option. Damn 125 limit ruined that though
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:15 pm
@ ANAND..When you harvest one of your Orchards it either tells you that you found a mystery seedling and you can share and post it up or it says “”sorry you didn’t find a mystery seedling this time but you recieved a certian anount of coins
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:17 pm
To the people kicking off about the snowmen. We did know it would happen! Farmville said ages ago that the snowman was for the Xmas period only :L
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:17 pm
zynga posted from the beginning that the snowmen would stop producing water at some point, and that date has been extended at least once because people SOOO desperately depend on them as a water source. but that has been publicly available information from the start.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:20 pm
I figured that the snowmen would not last forever and would be for the winter season only but I have an idea. Some of us have water pumps or facuets on our farms (I do on my farm) and I think it would be a great idea to get water for our seedlings from our pumps!! This could be permenant and you can still have watering cans sent to you but you fill them from your own pump (you could buy a pump at the current cost) &/or you could buy a watering hose for lets say 5,000 coins or 3 farm cash that you could hook up to your pump and then water your seedlings.
Let me know what you think of this idea. I think it is a wonderful idea.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:22 pm
I must be the odd one because I DO NOT want the seedlings and I don’t want the watering cans. I have to go through a ton of seedlings in my gift box and I don’t get ANY thing for them. I wish we had the choice to whether we wanted them or not! Also wish that they wouldn’t put a limit on the regift because I would be more than happy to give away the cans.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:23 pm
Removing the water supply from the snowmen is very wrong after so many people worked very hard and some spent FV cash to build them. I still have neighbors building them today and to say that the water supply is going to end soon. Unreasonable. Sometimes this Game is more like work except they don’t pay you, you pay them and then they take away what you worked for. Level 100 and considering quitting.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:29 pm
I don’t have a problem getting water. I have so much I’ve been getting about 20 mystery seedlings a day from feed.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Why would they stop water from the Snowman (I have bought and built about 30). Orchards should continue to produce seedlings and another source of water should be introduced as well as the Snowman. A lot of my friends have built Snowmen and if it was going to stop produce water – it should have been mentioned BEFORE we all spent coins and time on building them.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:30 pm
I built 50 Snowmen and over 170 Orchard,
I wish both produce Wateringcans.
I worked hard for it.
As you probably know. (- -’)
I am a tree lover and want to meet a tree lover too.
Add me as your nabor (facebook.com/ninetybkk) Thanks ^0^
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Keeping seedlings from your own orchard is a waste unless you need that tree…best seedlings are on the wall
) I throw all my seedlings away except the special orchards…I have 60 plus orchards and so what would be the difference in letting us keep the snowmen that already work over getting water cans out the orchards that don’t produce seedlings???? Oh wait cause you can CONTROL that supply…always something in it for them and not us….65 snowmen down the drain and 2 months of work down the drain with the and 65,000.00 while I’m at it!!! PUT A COUNTER ON OUR WALL COLLECTING WHILE YOU ARE AT IT!!!!!!!!!! Get tired of not knowing how much more I can collect everyday…you have it on Frontierville give us one on farmville now 
Just up the limit while you are making all these changes!!! Can be one to say I have slowed down ALOT on this game…doesn’t bother me to walk away now for hours on end! There I feel better now…LOL
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:37 pm
nope not happy all the effort thats gone into building my snowman army and its gonna be a waste of time….typical and what we’re supposed to just have 20 + snowmen hanging rd the farm doing nothing well what was the point of them anyway using up all my requests to build them after they started the 125 a day limit so i wouldnt hit my limit and they think that a few cans from tree orchards will be enough they’ve got to be kidding!!!!!!! when r they gonna get their acts together how about cutting down the amount of cans needed so we can actually collect other things too that would be a hell of a lot better as theres a new thing to build about to come out
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:41 pm
Jeez. Everyone freaking out about the snowmen. It was reported here on FV Freak that they wouldn’t ALWAYS produce watering cans LONG ago.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:42 pm
THIS IS SO UNFAIR!!! OUTTA THE ORCHARD FOR 1 CAN! TAKES 2 DAYS NOW FOR 1 CAN? THIS SUCKS! FU*K THIS VERY VERY MUCH!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:42 pm
It’s been known since between Christmas & New Years that Snowmen would stop producing water. So far we’ve had a reprieve in the cessation as it was originally supposed to take effect on 01/13.
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:46 pm
The way I read the Zynga announcement on the snowmen, I do not see that the water is taken away only the ability to build them….
“Once a day you’ll also be able to harvest the Snowman for Watering Cans—the higher the tier, the more Watering Cans you can get out of it.
Both the Snowball Fight and the Snowman events end on January 13. After that date players will not be able to throw snowballs, or add (or ask for) parts to their Snowman. You will be able to store your Snowman at that time. ”
At least we can store them!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 10:51 pm
If Zynga can build a stupid turkey roost that makes fruitcake (Useless) Then why not make us a waterwell that produces buckets also. I get so frustrated at not having enough water. I need a dang firehose to soak my seedlings right now!!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Some people only play the game and have to do so with the awful, incomplete and vague explanations zynga puts in it. not everyone has realized that they have to do hours of homework to understand all the subtle nuances, limitations and obligations of this flash game. not to mention, almost NOTHING works the way zynga claims it will. Now and then i come to farmville freak and say, “oh really? that’s so strange why wouldn’t they mention that IN THE GAME.”
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 11:27 pm
I was under the impression that the amount of time you had to build snowmen was limited and had an end date. I did not realize that the snowmen would stop giving water. I jumped through many many hoops to build those snowmen – some of them I built many times over because of OOS and disappearing parts. I really hope Farmville Freak has this wrong. Any seen anything concrete about this on the official forums?
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 11:28 pm
I hope someone from ZYNGA reads these post! Don’t stop the Snowman/men from producing water cans! That is sooooooo stupid to do. The orchards take two (2) days to collect from. Now this irritates me!!!!
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 11:30 pm
I spent time and Money on my Snowmen.. I built an army of them.. they are sooo ugly I have to hide all of them.. If they dont produce water anymore it will be the last straw… I will be completely out of Anal Lube.. The water cans was the only reason to get a snowman… I’m kinda getting over this game and the ridiculous prices…….. Really $25 farm cash for a fricken tree????
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 11:31 pm
If the water stops.. I’m asking zinga for a refund
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 11:39 pm
#47. Janie and #49. Eq4bits
If you could please point out the link that states that Snowmen weren’t always be giving watering cans, I would be very obliged! Because I went through all the snowmen posts at FV Freak and all it says that
We won’t be able to BUILD a snowman and engage in a snow fight after a certain date! BUT no where it mentions that they would cease being harvest-able!
“And finally, to save the best news for last – the Snowman is also harvest-able! What can it be harvested for, you ask? Watering cans! On the official FarmVille forums, Stumpgrinder says:
“Once a day you’ll also be able to harvest the Snowman for Watering Cans—the higher the tier, the more Watering Cans you can get out of it.””
Yes, many people don’t need watering cans, they wouldn’t be affected! But those who NEED watering cans, would be furious at this latest development! (Including Me!)
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Why all the fuss about the snowmen? You can get all the water you need from the special delivery boxes and they are so easy to get
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 12:20 am
SO MAD!!! I’ve build these stupid snowmen, had to buy and use farmcash, because the people Farmville selected were always inactive and never send a button or hat. Man those hats were expensive and now I feel ripped off in a big way. THey should have said that before we all started building them. If you buy a limited tree, it won’t stop producing harvest after the time to buy it is over right… so why with this?
This will learn me NOT TO BUY CASH ANYMORE.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 12:42 am
Uh oh – just tried to “harvest” my snowmen because they are 100% ready, but nothing happens! When I click on it all I get is a drop down menu that says move or sell. Am I the only one?
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 12:44 am
Screw the HELL you F***ing Zynga!! Worked so very hard to gather enough snowmans in order to supply my 40+ orchards (1 for every 2nd lvl tree type). Just finished upgrading 35 snowmans to lvl 3 and now they don’t produce water anymore? What, they made of sand now suddenly? I got along with all their crap they were doing recently, but this is seriously PISSING ME OFF THE MOST!!
A lvl 126 farmers’s rebel yell….
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 12:48 am
Sometimes I wonder how new players get into this game since it has developed so much during a year (I’ve played a bit less than a year myself). Take ducklings for example. Only hint was that place them and ask friends help. Ok, did that. But no one mentioned that you can grow only one duckling in a day. So that’s me wasted 12 ducklings in the beginning! I hope there would be a bit more detailed info when publishing new things – “Ducklings for dummies” or something??
Same thing with snowmen; It would have been good to know in advance that someday they’ll stop giving water, or limit them to only one so people wouldn’t have been too disappointed.
All over I’m quite pleased what Zynga does and how they bring out new things quite often now – considering it’s a free game. I’d just like to see that they’d test things propely before publishing them; nothing more annoying than new stuff that doesn’t work or makes your farm to go out of sync.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 3:12 am
I put 60 hrs into building an army of Snowmen, after the 125 limit on clicks. I thought they produced water. Why sell parts and pink ones if they gonna quit producing water? Many peeps, just today, were buying them cuz they wanted WATER not snowmen. I have had good players say they are gonna quit the game if this stands. I am one of them. Zynga can give me back the 100′s of real dollars I spent on this stupid game! We need to boycott FarmVille Now!!! They may get the message if all the tree lovers stop spending real money. Playing for over 8 months,. putting up with all the glitchy crap, and now this Zynga can KMA !!!!
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 3:26 am
This was a total fraud perpetuated on anyone who spent real farm cash (real money) for a product which now does absolutely nothing. The reason people spent 30 farm cash , often multiple times over, was not to have many snowmen on their farms , OBVIOUSLY, but to harvest many watering cans. This is some really shady stuff I hope they fix this one because this is honestly a bigger fraud on consumers than any of the other stuff they have done. Its quite literally theft. They sold a product for money on the assumption that the resource you could get from it was hard to get otherwise…now they make them easily availible in orchards, and at the same time materially change the product that was already sold and delivered for cash. Crazy, Im dumbfounded at this.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 6:42 am
I worked hard to get enough snowmen to produce 50 water cans a day & now they stop!!!! WTF! Give me back my snowman water!
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 6:50 am
I spent real money (FV cash) to build 20 snowmen to be self-sufficient and to be able to grow 6 seedlings by myself and now they are worthless and I have lost all that real money. I would not be so upset if I did not spend my hard-earned cash for this. Zynga should reimburse each person in FV cash for each snowman.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 7:07 am
very very very angry i have spent real money on my 10 snowmen and have deleted a lot of trees & orchards to keep my orchards in a managable order so only water hybrid trees for a higher monetary value & not clog up my gift box with 1000′s of seedlings it has taken time tears & frustration to get my 30 watering cans a day now when i click on my snowmen i only get the option to move or sell that sucks zynga sort it out asap
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 7:09 am
Well what a surprise, the moaners and whingers are out in force.
What is all the fuss about – it was always clear that snowmen were time limited – ie winter theme time limited – snow = winter. The fact that they would soon stop being a productive item has been clear for a long time.
I am glad I will be able to get rid of the only one I built – its hideous.
If people chose to built loads of them that was their choice and they can’t complain now.
As to seedlings and water – I don’t get the problem.
I have 30+ orchards, harvest about 15-18 seedlings every time, ie every 2 days, and have never had any problem getting enough water to grow those before the next harvest. Watercans from feed, from the request posting when each seedling is planted, and from SD boxes.
And its been no problem working within the 125 limit.
Note to Linda – you can’t get 15 seedlings a day from harvests – you can only harvest every 2 days.
As to seedlings – I never collect any from feed now. I did but just ended up with trees I had already mastered which were then just sold after taking the time to water them. My method now is when I master a tree I remove all of them from the orchards, that way the seedlings I collect at each harvest are 95% ones I need towards mastery. (The remaining 5% are accounted for by the few level 1 trees not mastered yet, although their 2nd level equivalent has been).
This works – I get masteries frequently and currently have 43 mastered – there about another 20 or so to do I think. There will be new ones, but I should be able to reduce my orchards by half soon.
I keep one example of each tree outside the orchard – where it doesn’t produce seedlings.
Having water from orchards will be a great addition.
Cameron – don’t buy the 25 FVC tree, it will be produced as a seedling by the cheaper 15FVC tree. I have bought that one, and did the same with the Giant Bubblegum too, buy the cheap one and collect seeds for the other. I don’t want many of either personally – like the snowmen they are hideous. I wouldn’t bother at all except I’m addicted to masteries.
Zimmie – ducks. Well I have grown two in a day – so not sure about the limit you talk about. Perhaps the limit is a Zynga day – which effectively straddles my day here in the UK since there is a 5hr time difference.
People why don’t you just play the game and stop complaining. If you don’t want to spend money play for free. If you do spend money remember that is your choice. No one is forcing you to do anything.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 7:28 am
3 words:
SCREW
YOU
ZYNGA
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 7:30 am
However, when you do not produce your own Mystery Seedling, it’s safe to say that you’ll be gifted with water instead.
Chicken and Egg story.
Where the hell do I get seedlings, if they switch over to watercans.
Soon my giftbox is full of Watercans and no seedlings.
They better let u choose what to get, watercans OR seedlings.
Greetings,
Bigdeal
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 7:48 am
I spent hard cash building these snowmen ONLY because they gave water… I object to Zynga stopping them giving water!!! why else would we have got them?? I would feel totally conned if Zynga stopped this, they should have told us before hand or give a total refund of fv cash for each snowman we built.. One hat cost 10 FV cash!! outrageous!!!
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 7:51 am
smug cindy huxley, it was never clear the water facility would stop. limited trees dont stop harvesting!! thanks for your support.. not
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 8:19 am
26 Snowmen. A lot of time and FV Cash. I’m furious. I make the effort to know what the deal is with new things, and somehow I, like many, missed that the snowmen were time limited regarding the watering cans. It certainly wasn’t obvious from within the game, so many people mad, we’re not all idiots. I normally just laugh at the many people who complain about this that and the other (it is just a game). But this snowmen debacle has me furious. It’s the first thing in a very long time that seemed worth shelling out a little real cash for. Can’t even store the damn things. Zynga will not fix this, as many people will delete their snowmen, so how do you compensate them? This is the first thing that has made me want to quit farmville.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 8:24 am
This is really stupid! I built only 3 snowmen, but some of my neighbours built more than 20 to get enough watering cans! I like the new option to harvest water from your orchard, but they should keep the snowmen also.. or they have to give everyone farmcash to compensate.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 9:06 am
I have 112 mystery seedlings in my gift box. Considering each seedling needs a ridiculous 10 cans of water, I hope they will be giving out a LOT of water.
And how about some SUPER watering cans that will grow a seedling completely or in half the amount of required cans?
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 9:09 am
I never saw that there was a time limit for collecting water, just for BUILDING the snowmen. I hope the good folks at Zynga will reconsider this and make the snowmen water supply permanent. After all, the point of the game is to have fun. Having a huge supply of seedlings and no water is NOT fun. My neighbors always relied on my snowmen. The trees were fun, not so much now.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 9:30 am
Wow didn’t expect today the snowmen would be nonfunctional I thought they would give us a more specific warning than that. I mean at least the workshop had today’s date on it I was waiting on the snowmen specifically for water today oh well I guess hope the orchards pop out water >>>SOON<<<
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 9:37 am
i’m with everyone else ZYNGA you need to quit playing God. once you put a feature out there and we work very hard to take advantage of the feature (snowman) you come along and take it away without considering the people that play your game. its getting very old i dont like wasting my time building stuff that you are going to decide on your own to take the functionality away days later…..jerks
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 9:42 am
I only built so many snowmen to get the water !!!!! Will I get a refund of FV$ that I spent to finish off snowmen before time ran out ?!??!?
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 10:04 am
I cannot imagine that Zynga will consider refunding anyone the FVC they spent on snowmen.
First they could be built without spending anything.
Secondly if you choose to buy anything and then find it’s no longer available, or is later available at a lower price in a sale you don’t go in and ask the shop for a refund.
And is it really necessary to put posts like Assds – 66. This does nothing to further any discussion. It’s sad that people feel it necessary to post in that way, and I wonder why insulting posts of that nature are tolerated.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 10:06 am
This sucks, I spent so much time on my snowmen, I built 10 of them and now they are going to turn them off and control how much water they give per orchard. Me thinks I will be deleting my seedlings. No fair farmville
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 10:09 am
Didn’t watering cans used to come in special deliveries? I can’t remember, they change stuff so frequently.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 10:11 am
Cindy Huxley – A lot of my neighbors have more than 60 seedlings from their orchards and from other neighbors. People are builiding the snowman because of Collecting limits and plus NOT ALL NEIGHBORS WILL GIVE WATERING CANS BECAUSE THERE’S GIFT LIMITS. PEOPLE ARE NOT WHINING OR MOANING ITS FRUSTRATING WITH ALL THE LIMITS. I don’t have a lot of neighbors whose willing to give me watering cans so I built more than 20 snowman. So what if it looks hidious it helps me get my mystery seedling done and while I have enough watering cans, I can get as much of the Valentines gifts to get the reward. SOME PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO ADD RANDOM PEOPLE. NOT EVERYONE CAN HAVE MORE THAN 500 VALENTINE GIFTS FOR A SWAN. It takes time. PEOPLE HAVE TO RIGHTS TO BE ANGRY.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 10:51 am
Lindalinda – Of course people have a right to be angry, but perhaps they should think about whether what they are angry about is a reasonable issue.
Zynga never said buy snowmen and gets loads of water. The watering cans were an extra from a themed item. Many themed items have given rewards of some kind and then that has ended when the theme ends.
People made a decision, got the water they wanted, but now that has ended. I see no point in the whinging and certainly not in the insulting attacks on Zynga.
I work within the same gift and feed limits as anyone else. If people choose to collect a lot of seedlings from the feed, then they must realise they cannot grow them immediately and will have to wait.
There is such a thing as game strategy. Deciding what you want to do most and doing that, deciding how you will use your availability of cash, items etc.
I repeat what I have said before. If people like the game great, if they don’t don’t play – its simple.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 10:57 am
I guess I won’t be able to grow trees anymore, which was the only f&&&ing thing I cared about in the FIRST PLACE.
SOS: SAVE OUR SNOWMEN!!!!!
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 11:54 am
I can’t harvest my Snowmen for water….anyone else having this problem?
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 12:04 pm
****kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk farmvillle .it took me so long to built those ****ing “15 snowmans” now they are 100 % ready and not produceing water …..now i will delete those ****ing loser snowmans…:[[[[[
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Great news! I have a terrible backlog of seedlings waiting to get watered.
Honestly, I only did the snowmen for the water cans, glad I didn’t spend FC to build them, but I believe the people who did have a right to be pi$$ed.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Thats totally ridiculous, If it was limited, then why are so many people confused and upset about it? And why would people have spend multiple farm cash purchases to buy 10 or 20 ugly snowmen for their farm? And Zynga deliberatly didnt make the watering can harvesting expire until after the item expired to trick people into spending fc on it even though in a few moments they would be rendered worthless.
To the people who say “it was always clear they would stop giving watering cans” I would like to know where or how this became clear to you? Ive played farmville for a year and have never been confused as to an items functionality or what it was supposed to do- until this one. I never saw it saying it was limited, and if it was, why would I spend farm cash on something that is limited? ???
Im not one to complain much, I dont mind the mystery boxes , the fc for expansion… but to tell people they are getting something, to misrepresent it, and then to sell it for actual money, only to change what it is you bought afterwards, under your nose, is freaking shameful and will definately mark the end of my relationship with Zynga if not corrected.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 1:38 pm
cindy huxley MUST be a zynga employee, or else total moron. I have read through all the comments here, and only 1 person (cindy huxley) has said this is not an issue that people should be complaining about. The other 90 posts are from people (like me) who were tricked and bait-and-switched into buying many snowmen under the assumption they would continue to produce watering cans.
As several people have clearly shown, all Zyngas statements regarding Snowmen did NOT specify that watering can haverst was a limited time feature, and with all other limited items, including birds and trees, just because an item was AVAILIBLE for a limited time doesnt mean that it will be HARVESTABLE for a limited time.
Im just glad a lot of other people feel just as duped as I do. I have been looking for an excuse to save several hours a day from the bottomless pit of farmville, and this has done it for me.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 1:42 pm
I agree with everyone (except for the one obvious zynga employee) that the snowman thing is a bunch of crap. I suffered through the amazingly buggy and out-of-sync error causing snowman building process so I wouldn’t have to worry so much about water. It’s just shameful.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Hanes….Well put, just yesterday I paid FC to finish all the snowmen, and today, puff!!! money down the drain, and yes cindy huxly probably and employee
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Nothing left to say, you’ve all said it well. We’ve been totally SCAMMED by Zynga on this one. More to come I’m sure. Has anyone seen the video of the Zynga founder bragging how he’s taking gamers to the cleaners? Very ****y and proud of it.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Just for the record – I don’t and never have worked for Zynga.
I wonder why, when a point is made that is not in line with the moaning and whinging the immediate assumption jumped to is that the person making it must work for Zynga. I have seen this before and it is an interesting and amusing phenomena.
I have made my points about the snowmen and the water cans.
I manage to play the game, master trees, crops and crafting items, etc within the gift and feed limits, and in the case of trees without a load of snowmen. If I can do it anyone can. Especially as you are all clearly much more intelligent than a moron.
People who have spent money spent it because they wanted to. I can’t see Zynga seeing that as a reasonable cause to refund it – but ask them by all means. I suggest you ask courteously – ‘jerks’ or ‘screw you’ certainly won’t do it.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 3:16 pm
I wrote to Zygna and complained about the snowman not giving water anymore.Told them the amount of monies my family has spent on their trees and the amount of time wasted building snowmen so that we could have enough water for the seedlings. I got back a letter from them saying they were sorry I was not enjoying the game. Gave me a one time gift of 20 water cans and $20.00 fvcash. What a joke when the hats alone cost 10.00 fvc and we had to buy 46 of them for my farm, my sons, and my daughter. They seem to enjoy screwing those that support them most, their players. I will not spend another dime on their games they can shove there goodies where the sun don’t shine. I bought 20 pink patch cows for each farm now they give them away for 50 cards.. They cheat their players and are greedy as hell. They don’t care about the people who support them and their games it is the almighty dollar they care about after all they don’t give a rats ass about anything but the $$$$$$$ in front of them. Look at the cost of horses and trees now. They don’t even offer anything free as a way of showing their appreation for all the $$$$$ they get from their players. A free expansion would be nice as a way of saying thank you. They talk with a forked tongue.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 4:18 pm
So apparently Cindy Huxley thinks she is a role model. If she can do it, everyone can.
I can only talk according to myself, so let’s count what I’m facing.
I built 35 snowmans in the belief of the permanent water source. That produces 105 watering cans.
Now, I was working intensely to have 1 Orchard for every single type of 2nd lvl tree. Which is almost done, and also having couple of Orchards full of lvl 1 trees. So I got around 42-44 Orchards. That produces between 14-23 seedlings every 2 days. Now, I also used to intercept from my neighbors approx 5-15 seedlings on a 2 days period. So that is usually ~20-35 seedlings every 2 days.
See what my 105 watering cans did every day there? (210 every 2 days)
But again, there are people who are able to get along with their 1-2 seedlings/day from their neighbors….
Your ignorance of other’s point of view why your posts are getting down-rated.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 4:22 pm
This is so sad they should have then stated that the snowmen was a temp. application. I wasted my money and time on this. Cindy I bet it was you that liked people like me that could give you the h20 that you needed. If it was posted as a limited app I sure would not have wasted my money on it. They deceived everyone in order for us to buy. Sad.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 4:59 pm
I’ve been running a Catch-22 on the Seedling/Orchard/building materials/WaterCans for over a month now. I too have done the math and the over 200 seedlings I have would mean 2,000 cans of water and to building Orchards for those soon to be trees – then i’d need 10 orchards meaning 100 Boards, 100 Bricks, and 100 Nails. I’m exhausted from all this math, let alone the mouse clicks!!!!
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Helbov – I am not interested in how my posts are rated.
I had 40+ orchards now have 30+ – A nice profit of 5000 coin on each one sold too.
I have mastered the majority of level 1 trees and about 2/3 of level two.
I don’t collect seedlings from the feed, ie from neighbours, just use the 15-20 produced by my own trees every two days.
It isn’t necessary to collect a load of seedlings from feed, or have hundreds in order to master trees, unless you are intent on doing it very very fast.
Mars – Zynga deceived no one. People chose to spend money on the snowmen, even though they could be built for nothing, ‘caveat emptor’ buyer beware.
Certainly I collected some water cans from my neighbours, and I posted just as many. I also used SD boxes and gift requests, and sent as many gifts. That’s how it works. Not sure what your beef is with that.
I first made a contribution to this discussion because I was tired of the whinging, and also because it seemed to me people were getting stressed for no reason.
I have said all I want to say. If you are not happy with the game don’t play.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 5:19 pm
I had a hunch that the snowmen would stop producing water cans, but that was all through interpreting Zyngas cryptic messages. I spent some cash building these snowmen, but I have gotten a good ROI so I´m fine with that. If had built the snowmen later than I did though, then I would feel quite pissed off.
Otherwise, I agree with Lindalinda. I have not added any neighbours other than my real friends of whom most have quit playing, right now I have like 5 active neighbours. I have managed to get to level 101 anyhow, but it is getting harder and harder to follow the game as Zynga had adapted to the fact that most other players have lots and lots of very active and dedicated neighbours. I keep pestering the few neighbours I have to keep up in building stuff. Getting extra valentines etc is virtually impossible. Getting watering cans and lots of mystery boxes the same. The truffle hunting gives me nothing. About one in 20 truffles are returned as Farmville for some reason keeps finding truffles on farms of the players that I suppose that Zynga sees are the ones most likely to maybe returning to the game.
Sure, quitting the game is an option. But still, I have made a huge investment in time and cash during the last year and it would be a shame just to throw that away. I would be much more happy if Zynga would find a way to make money without overcharging me, and without forcing me to constantly bugging people I know for help, spamming their feeds. And sure, I could start adding people I don´t know, but as I use Facebook primarily as a social network maintaining work and personal relations I am not keen on letting strangers in on that.
I do not really see how a new player would have any chance of getting into the game now. There are too many options, too many buildings that need to be completed and too many task that has to be made before getting a functional farm now, that you would have to spend a ridiculous amount of real cash to catch up. I think that this will kill Farmville in not too long from now. Less inflow of new players and a constant outflow of veterans will cause the game to die as Zynga will make less and less money from it. That should worry all of you who do not see any problems in the issues raised above, as one of your hobbies are under threat of quite soon being made redundant. Cause, I assume that no one of you really believe that Zynga, the greediest corporation on earth, will spend resources on maintaing a game that is not making a of profit?
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Oh, and sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes in the above. I am not a native english speaker so I might have made a lot of them. Hope that my point gets through though.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Don’t worry, soon we won’t be playing and you can remain the only one there to hold Zynga’s hand.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 5:36 pm
*for Cindy
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 6:00 pm
OK PEOPLE I HOPE YOU REALIZED THE ORCHARD TAKE OVER THE AMOUNT OF SPACE IN THE FARM. I dont get how Cindy think “SNOWMEN IS HIDIOUS” when it really gives the space for your farm.
Supernaut- Barely anyone is active on farmville and not all “SPECIAL DELIVERY” gives you watering cans. I hate when you open the special delivery you get bees.
I don’t care if it was limited or not but not everyone have the same mind as you CindyHeux. Zynga has never informed snowmen will not produce watering cans. They informed all of us that its limited edition so act fast to CREATE THE FULL SNOWMEN
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Goodnight Cindy.
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 6:05 pm
I am not sure what happened to my last post what i said was…..
GOODNIGHT CINDY!
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 7:07 pm
I hope when the snowman is no longer producing water that we’ll be able to store it….
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 at 10:26 pm
So if the orchards become like the Dairy farm and the Nursey and seedlings magically “grow up”, I think I’ll be more excepting of lack of watering cans.
Posted on February 4th, 2011 at 12:02 am
This is really a crock of crap! The snowmen should continue to produce water, AND they can add the water making abilities to the orchards.
There isn’t any need to have the snowmen stop making water, and it makes those, who spent the time building them, mad.
Staff at Zynga really do not think things through very thoroughly. This is just another disappointment in a l-o-n-g line of them, and the game isn’t even two years old yet.
Posted on February 4th, 2011 at 2:50 am
I WILL NEVER BUY FARMVILLE CASH AGAIN I PROMISE MYSELF THAT. EVEN THO THEY HAVE FIXED THE SNOMAN THING IT WAS JUST A HORRIBLE THING TO DO. IM NEARLY AT LEVEL 100 WHICH WAS MY AIM AND WILL QUIT WHEN I GET THERE.
P.S. SCREW YOU CINDY HUXLEY U ARE ONE OF THOSE REALLY ANNOYING PEOPLE WHO TRY TO SOUND REASONABLE AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS OBVIOUS PAIN. I HOPE ALL YOUR CROPS WITHER AND YOU MEET YOURSELF ONE DAY. ASSHOLE.
Posted on February 4th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
If you think that Cindy Huxley is a self-righteous, arrogant, condescending, annoying, know it all; give this comment a thumbs up.
Posted on February 26th, 2011 at 10:04 am
I’m just starting out and didn’t realize that about snowmen. Not only that I haven’t seen any ads or offers for snowman or snowmen. Maybe they’ll show up?
Posted on February 26th, 2011 at 10:09 am
This is a PS to my previous comment:
I just noticed and read #2 on your trackbacks and now I think I understand.
Posted on October 16th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
i can’t harvest my orchards for three days, can u fix it?