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Two Additional Changes to New FarmVille Gifting System
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Over the past few weeks Zynga has been slowly rolling out a new gifting system. As we reported previously, you now have an option to accept and send free gifts in the FarmVille game screen. In the upper right corner of the screen there is an envelope, you can click on this to accept gifts neighbors have sent you. After selecting the envelope, a new screen will pop up allowing you to accept or ignore gifts, accept neighbor requests as well as help neighbors through requests.
There have been two significant changes this week to the new gifting/request system.
1. After accepting a gift, there is now an option to send a Thank You gift in return. It does not redirect you, another screen simply pops up allowing you to send the same gift in return, much like on Facebook, rather then choosing from a menu of all gifts.
2. The most important and significant change to the new in game gifting system came last night. You no longer need to reload your farm in order to receive gifts. After accepting (and returning like any good neighbor should 
) simply wait a moment and mouse over your gift box, and the number will change and the gifts will appear.
This new in game gifting option has been updated/changed slowly. With each change, gifting seems to become easier and faster.
Have you been using the in game gifting system? What other changes would you like to see?
Tags: changes, farmville freak, farmville.com, farmvillefreak.com, gifting system
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 11:24 am
Nice Update i was waiting for something like this
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 11:33 am
where is podcast ????????????????
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 11:34 am
This is awesome!!
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 11:40 am
where is the fv podcast !!!!!!!!!!! ????????????? i am so mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 11:41 am
The secondary popup for sending back the gift is not working in on Mac with Safari. I’ll test with Opera and FF next.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 11:43 am
I hate it.
Once you click the yes button for more gifts that are pending, it just goes to the game. It takes me forever to load the accepting thing.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 11:50 am
This is way way way better than accepting each individual gift, which usually took about 3-5 clicks each, and plenty of load-waiting time.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 11:51 am
I like this new Update.Very good…(*O*)
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 11:56 am
Is it just me or when we use it this way you can’t see the comments? Lots of my farmers leave special notes when sending gifts. I can’t see them from here.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 11:58 am
Somebody want to have a Clyde or Purple pony foal ? Would like to have some farm$ Stuff
Write me a Message if u are interested 
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Sandra how are we suppose to write you.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 12:26 pm
@Sallie, that’s correct, I can’t see any personal comments either, not a good thing!
Works on FF for Mac!
Also the list only shows requests from today, not from yesterday or earlier. I have puppy kibble and doggy treats and other items that I haven’t accepted yet and they won’t show in that list.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 12:26 pm
This new update didn’t work for me. I lost 11 gifts. They didn’t appear in my gift box immediately, nor did they after the refresh.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Sandra im interested in a purple pony foal what do i need to do for you
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Bummer. I want to see the comments when gifting. Hope Zynga can make this a priority!
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 12:38 pm
haha Kari is one of my top neighbors
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Gifting has become so much better. They just need to work on the thank you option a bit to make it more user friendly. Right now you click once..you get a page…you click thank you .. a pop-up and you click again to send. 4 clicks to send a thank you gift.
It will be super fabulous to just click thank you and have it send the gift – the same way you accept with a click now. Hopefully this is their next improvement.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 1:03 pm
This update is absolutely AWESOME! I hope the 100% move to this soon, so much more efficient. You still have to accept them here and ignore them in your requests.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 1:04 pm
@Sallie: I really want the personal message to show up… I normally leave a note asking for a thank you gift but now my neighbours can’t see it anymore.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 1:06 pm
I like the new system, I just hate that it doesn’t sync with facebook–so I end up with tons of gift requests that I’ve already collected and there’s no easy way to clear the requests page–is there some secret to fixing this?
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Thank all that is holy; I was ready to quit over this.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 1:39 pm
how can i send the help for gift? thank you
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Sandra, i wuld like
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Also, now you are not limited to 50 when accepting things like materials, collectibles and eggs from the facebook feed. It let me go up to 70 gifts today!!! You are still limited to 50 when accepting gifts though.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 2:10 pm
The gifting envelope don’t work for me. The only thing in the envelope is Gold bars (for the pot of gold that I sold long ago and slate tile. I may get one to three new gifts in it, but when I go to facebook I have 30 to 40 gifts there. It would be nice if it worked like it is supose to.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 2:19 pm
I also don’t really like this new gifting method.There is a place to write a message whan you accept a gift in the acknowledging pop up.. I also don’t like that the gifts stay on the home page until you go in and “ignore” them. Has anyone that bought or won a FAN COW know of anyone getting a calf from the barn?
SANDRA please contact me at carolco@aol.com if you would like to be my friend.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Does not work for me on Firefox. Second screen never appears.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Oh srry everybody there
here is my profil link
Wirte me a personal message and tell me how many foals u want and what u want to pay max.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000547190368
Somebody want to have a Clyde or Purple pony foal ? Would like to have some farm$ Stuff
Write me a Message if u are interested 
Hallo habe ein Purple pony foal und ein Clyde foal im Angebot, hätte gern i-welchen farm$-Sachen
Schreibt mich einfach an wenn ihr interessiert seit 
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 2:43 pm
It works for me, but like others have said:
1. don’t see any comments.
2. have to clear the notices on facebook.
I’ll wait til they (hopefully) work out the kinks.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 2:55 pm
I love the new feature, so very easy and convenient!!
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 4:03 pm
I will second Kitkat.
Though a bit slow but it is much more suitable as one doesn’t have to load the game again after receiving gifts.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 4:27 pm
This new gifting hasn’t been working for me. Have accepted so many gifts and none appeared in my gift box
I have puppy kibble I want to accept to feed my puppy and it hasn’t been working 
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 4:41 pm
@sandra Me i want some what do i have to do???????
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Doesnt work for me on Chrome.. the send gift button wont click
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 5:11 pm
when I use the envelope to accept gifts I loose everything…absolutly a waste of my time…now I have to accept refresh accept refresh accept refresh stupid
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 5:11 pm
How come my gift box quantity keeps shrinking and I keep loosing gifts? Also the items shown on facebook as gifts is not the same as on the farm page.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Absolutely HATE the grouping on Face Book….
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 5:55 pm
This system seems to be working. I still have all the items listed as Facebook Requests, but I feel they will fix that soon. The wish list, accepting gifts, and sending gifts are all cool features.
The thing I really like is how the interface automatically pops up when you highlight it and pops up after planting an item on your farm. That and the instant harvesting is real cool – although I am going to miss “harvesting milktonium”.
The only thing that STILL aggravates me from the start is the sheer computer waiting time it takes while on the farm. I have to drag off of anybody’s farm (including my own) just to get things loaded/done. I can’t even change tabs in Firefox until I do that. Real sad. Being able to disable animation may help out with that. I already have it on low quality.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Has anyone noticed that when you accept new neighbor request you dont get to send them a gift anymore or get one?
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Having to clear the notices on the Facebook page. How do we know if we have already received those gifts or if they are new gifts waiting for us? Im not using the new gifting system. Thats doing double duty. Not worth it.
ALSO WHY ARENT THE ANIMALS MOVING AROUND ANYMORE? THEY PECK THE GROUND OR MOVE THEIR BODIES BUT THEY DONT WALK ANYWHERE. WHAT HAPPENED? I KINDA LIKED HUNTING FOR THEM WHEN THEY WENT BEHIND A BUILDING OR HAYBALES OR SOMETHING.
Posted on May 1st, 2010 at 10:51 pm
The problem I find with the ingame gifting system is that,while it’s great in FarmVille, the system doesn’t communicate gift acceptance to Facebook. So Facebook still tells you that you have 24 gifts even if you’ve accepted them. You still have to go throught the process of clicking each gift request and then getting a screen that tells you you’ve already accepted it.
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 12:01 am
There are kinks to iron out, but it’s a move in the right direction.
I’d like FB to resolve the issue of gift items remaining on my notifications page after I’ve already accepted them within the FV app. It’s tedious to clear one by one.
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 12:14 am
@james
boy ,you can simply ignore evry gift on FB anftre accepting all on FV
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 1:57 am
I love it. Now could you make the gift requests on my FB home page go away? They seem to stick around, mounting up and they are all now useless.
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 2:13 am
I’ve found one problem. Any gifts given to you by non-friends (say I posted this link on a site:
http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/track.php?creative&cat=Feed_wishlist_request&subcat&key=9a0141022ea1dc371903266b224988ac&next=wishlist_give.php%3Frecipient%3D100000129438587%26giftId%3Dirrigationpipe&ref=nf )
You can accept them, even through facebook, as it always comes up with a gift error
Now I’ll never get my botanical gardens done.
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 5:27 am
Why not just automatically send a gift in return? Most people send gifts because they’re hoping to get the same thing back–why not just set it that way-and make (the current) click button for sending a DIFFERENT gift or no gift? Over 90% of the time we just send a ‘thank you gift’ which is the identical item returned to the sender. So make that the default by auto-sending with no effort/clicks/time lag!!!
Or, add “accept all” and “Send thank you gift to all” buttons
Or, add a small check button to select all the gifts we want to accept /send thank you’s to.
And while we’re at it, do the same for adding neighbors! It is so laborious to add 1 neighbor, what with changing screens and the lag time. Why not just have check buttons that let you select and then add 10-20 at a time?
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 6:07 am
WTF???? I just accepted 24 gifts using the new system and not ONE of them is in my gift box!!! I have refreshed a million tims and still not there!!! I am NOT happy Jan!!!
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 6:10 am
Well the complaint about having to clear out your facebook requests if you use the Zynga messenger will be gone soon, eventually it sounds like Facebook will be removing that window.
What I’d really like to see happen is a “wish list” incorporated directly into the gifting system. You select send a friend a gift and it shows you a few items they’ve put in requests for and you can pick one, so you’re sending people what they want instead of what you want.
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 6:31 am
Hi,
I’m missing the “personal message” (if there is one) in the new gift bar. The only way to see it is inte the “Home -> Requests”
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 7:07 am
Now if only they’d fix the fact that I’ve lost TONS of gifts over the last few days! I’m talking… at least 10-15 per day. Insanity!
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 8:47 am
I would like to 1) be able to see comments about what the person wants in return if anything. 2) have the popup’s WORK 100% of the time. Too often I am left with white pages without being able to gift, or after I gift. It is simply annoying. Other then that, I do like it.
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 9:15 am
For some reason the page to send gifts back does not load for me?? Its just blank!!
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 10:56 am
I don’t like the fact that it doesn’t clear out the gift list on Facebook when you accept the gifts on the Zynga message center. You still have to go through all the gifts on FB to clear out your mailbox. Why does it keep starting up FV even when you tell it you have more gifts to accept? I would like it to go back to FB each time I tell it yes.
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 10:57 am
I agree with Tim. I would like to see a list of items the giver would like in return, not just the identical item they gave me. They might not need or want the same item.
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 12:32 pm
I agree with #52,53,54. It’s very frustrating to lose things that you need and earned. I lost a home last week and can’t count the gifts that get lost. The blank page hit me today. This has been a fun experience for me but I DON’T like the quirky things that disturb my play All the time.
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 2:05 pm
This is Free Fuel Week!!! I sign in & out EVERYDAY & have not received ANY
FREE FUEL!!! All my friends & neighbors have but NOT ME!!!
I’m VERY FRUSTRATED!! It had also said something about free fuel if you get
awards while playing Co-Op games!! I have played 4 or five and got the gold once,
silver twice and bronze at least twice! AND AGAIN NO FREE FUEL!!!! Most of the
people I know have 20 to 30 tanks of fuel and I can’t even finish seeding or harvesting my crops without running out of fuel and having to do the rest one space at a time!!
I’ve really enjoyed playing Farmville but I’m getting very frustrated and close to just quiting! I’ve tried EVERYTHING I can think of and NO HELP HAS COME MY WAY!!
PLEASE HELP ME! Or head me in the right direction for help. Oh, I know they are making a big deal about getting fuel with coins instead of FV’s! I’ve had a problem getting FV’s! All the people who started with me have well over 20 to 30 FV’s and have used alot already! I just now have 11 and spent 5! So I haven’t had the luxury of using my FV’s to buy anything!! I’d really like to get the fuel I’ve missed out on all week at least! PLEASE HELP ME!
Thank You!
Kathleen Campbell Gagnon
KEG1952@roadrunner.com
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 2:09 pm
I have a complaint about this new system. If I take care of my stuff on the farm. Then facebook should remove it from their end. I have to weed through all of the gifts and hope I don’t delete something that hasn’t been collected yet. or something from another game.
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Hey whats a girl got to do to get one of those kelly calves? Did,t anyone put them in the barn?
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 4:27 pm
I do not like it. I am just going to accept gifts on facebook period. I spend too much time with “you already received this gift”
Posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Facebook needs to take away the similar posts thing. I hate having to do so many clicks to find everyones posts.
Also why arent mystery eggs in the bonus checker anymore? Any mystery eggs are found on the facebook main page.
I hope Lexlicious is feeling better, podcasts arent the same with out her.
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 7:50 am
MY GIFTING FROM THE ENVELOPE DOES NOT WORK AT ALL. IT DOES NOT GIVE ME THE GIFTS I ACCEPT NOR DOES IT SEND GIFTS. WHEN I GO TO SEND GIFTS, I GET A BIG WHITE SCREEN.
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 11:44 am
Nice update but it never works for me. After I send back a gift, it just freezes.
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 1:59 pm
I HATE IT! Ever since the change I am not getting half of my gifts and can not send any in return. I also don’t like being redirected to my farm after each gift. And when you are collecting bonus’s and collectibles we get redirected too. Change it back to the previous way. And why would you put a yes/no option on accepting a gift. Of course we want to accept it that is why we clicked it.
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 3:13 pm
I agree with #59, & 63. After this change Im loosing tooo many gifts. I lost like 10 fuel gifts today.
Ya, getting directed to the farm after accepting each gift is annoying. If Zynga wanna make things better, Make it better. But plz dont mess things up, when they were actually running smoothly!!!!!!!
PLZZZ DOOO SUMTHINNNNN!!!!!
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 3:41 pm
I have and do use, on my MAC, Google Chrome, Safari…which is the WORST there is…Firefox and Camino. Camino is awesome for facebook and farming. The pop up to return gifts is a blank white window on ALL of the above.
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Half of the gifts in my list say “sorry… you already received this gift”
So why are the items in the list?
I noticed that a lot of people say: This is great, except…
So basically, it does not work!
Wish zynga would try their stuff out before they release it.
that shouldn’t be so hard with all the millions they are earning from us.
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 6:22 pm
I don’t like the new system. The number of gifts I have on facebook is 4 times greater than the number that shows up on my farm. When I accept the gift on facebook, I get the message I have already accepted it…don’t think so. Also, my gift box continues to decrease in the quantity of gifts I can accept. When I send email messages to zynga I still don’t get any answers…my patience is running down and it’s a shame because I really like playing farmville.
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 7:18 pm
I too agree with a few points above. I wish the personal comments were attached to the gifts as I usually send things to neigbours (like building materials) and do not want them sent back. Also I would like to be able to access a “wish list” when sending items to neighbours. Perhaps addig this to the neighbour bar INSTAED of send gift to neighbour have “wish list for gifting” or similar? But them i am a neighbour that takes notice of people’s farms and tries to send them what they NEED and not what I need to get the same thing back (frustrates me big time!)
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 7:20 pm
oh and i also have problems with the page not loading after clicking on sending gifts requested via facebook…i click refresh each time but it is frustrating
Posted on May 4th, 2010 at 11:17 am
they are fixing the glitch about using the botaical garden parts to get free stuff and farmvile cash…. the gifting system should be fiixed soon… read aout it at farmvilleadictos.com , knew about it too late
but it did work for some of my neighbors….
Posted on May 4th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Upon receiving gifts, the 2 options should be “Accept” and “Sell” NOT “Accept” and “Ignore” .
If we don’t want or need the gift, we should have the option to sell it immediately instead of having to accept it and then sell it from our overflowing gift boxes. If the profit automatically gets added to your coins upon pushing the “sell” button, I don’t know anyone that, given the choice, would rather “ignore” than “sell”.
Posted on May 4th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
The gifting would be better if u did not have to go back to fb to delete what u have already accepted..It needs to be one way or the other..also there seems to be more gifts on fb than on the gifting page…
Also..when r u going to up the level higher than 70..fv is not fun any more..
thx
Posted on May 4th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I wish that the gift-requests at your profile disapear after you accepted them. I’m sure i ingnored gifts i got because i thought i accepted them in the gift feature.
Posted on September 27th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
The new “in game” gifting system does not work on my PC.
I tried with actual versions of IE 8 – Safari – Chrome – Opera and Firefox.
When opening Farmville or Frontierville and clicking the symbol indicating gift requests there is no “in game” gifting: the “old” gift list opens, I am kicked “out of game” to accept and to return gifts. After all I have to re-open Farmville or Frontierville. Actually the symbol in Farmville shows 43 gift requests even though the list is empty.
Posted on October 19th, 2011 at 6:59 pm
I gifting is awesome thru farm screen………..also receiving gifts. Why cant all gifts go to the farm screen rather than the Facebook page? It takes me a very long time (when I have over 100 gifts) to receive these. I think it would be great if all gifts were transferred to the farm screen. Takes me minutes to get gifts….facebook page takes hours.
Posted on October 19th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
I think gifting is awesome thru farm screen………..also receiving gifts. Why cant all gifts go to the farm screen rather than the Facebook page? It takes me a very long time (when I have over 100 gifts) to receive these. I think it would be great if all gifts were transferred to the farm screen. Takes me minutes to get gifts….facebook page takes hours.
Posted on October 28th, 2011 at 7:11 am
I am glad that the game is being made easier amd quicker to play. thanks.
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 at 7:03 pm
I HATE THE NEW GIFTING SYSTEM LOTS OF GIFTS I GET NEVER GO THREW MAKES IT HARD TO HELP OTHERS WITH RAFFLES/GOALS AND EVERYTHIN ELSE PLZ CHANGE IT BK