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Zynga Pulls FarmVille from MSN Games
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About ten days ago FarmVille was quietly pulled from MSN Games, as reported by Inside Social Games.
In a partnership between Zynga and MSN dating back to February, FarmVille was made available to play via MSN Games. The idea was that having FarmVille accessible through other portals besides FaceBook, would drive hits for both MSN and increase exposure for Zynga. It is unsure how successful this partnership was and whether or not it was worth it for Zynga’s investment.
So why did Zynga leave? While Zynga has failed to make an official statement concerning the end of farming on MSN, it is no secret that Zynga recently entered into a partnership with MSN competitor Google, who has invested millions in the social gaming company. Could this partnership have something to do with it? According to Inside Social Gaming, ” Zynga didn’t find the traffic MSN produced meaningful enough to continue running FarmVille on the Microsoft platform”.
As access portals other than FaceBook seem to be of particular interest to social gaming companies like Zynga, “Zynga’s departure suggests the traffic other social developers are hoping to find off of Facebook may be more difficult to find than expected”. Despite FarmVille’s “lackluster performance” on MSN, Zynga continues to seek other avenues of social expansion, including investments in mobile apps, like FarmVille for iPhone as well as seeking access for its games in international markets such as Japan and China. With investments like Google’s in Zynga, rumored to be of up to $200 million, the future of Zynga games in the US market seems to be more than hopeful especially with the launch of the much anticipated Google Games. For now, the big question remains unanswered. . . do social gaming companies like Zynga need FaceBook or does FaceBook need them?
What do you think? What does the future of Zynga’s games like FarmVille outside the realm of FaceBook?
Tags: farmville, farmville freak, farmville.com, farmvillefreak.com, google, google games, Inside Social Games, insidesocialgames.com, MSN games, social gaming, zynga
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:22 pm
number 1
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:24 pm
I am hoping Farmville comes out on Droid phones.
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:24 pm
need new horses..and ones that come out of nurserys the way they go in as if we’ll get it
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:25 pm
That poll is not accurate, as you CAN farm using Farmville.com, but you still have to log into Facebook to do it.
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:25 pm
What happens to MSN internet users now? Will they still have access to Farm Ville?
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:28 pm
i have my e-mail w/ msn./..that will have any incovinient w/my account in Facebook?
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Farmville is a very relaxing game to me and all my friends on Facebook. We never want to see it leave, nor ever want to have to pay for it. It is a winner!!!
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Love the game, never remove it or make people pay to play it and it will always be a success!!
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I wish Zynga would just dump Facebook all together and have its own gaming portal and be done with it.
JT
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:37 pm
If they are looking for investors they should really work harder in the glitchs and bugs and hang up. Love the game but there are so many frustrating things about it.
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Seems to me with Zynga threatening to leave FB last spring and now the MSN pullout, they dont know how to play well with others. While the game is very interactive and has great ideas for players, they need to do something with their software team to create a game that doesnt seem to have so many glitches and frustration for the user, and seems to me a new marketing team that knows how to play well with others. Look at the common denominator of all the issues with the social platforms, Zynga is always in the middle of it.
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:49 pm
What is it going to take for you ppl to figure out that we love the game….but hate the constant interruptions that make it take hours to play and make it NOT FUN to play??? Please!!!! For everyones sake..yours included….Fix the problems you have before you release new items and things that will only add to the problems!!! I for one am about ready to throw in the towel…and many of my friends and neighbors feel the same…I put an Appaloosa foal into Nursery cause I wanted an Appalossa Horse…got black horse instead…I have sold hundreds of Black horses…that really made me mad…now I have no way of getting my appaloosa back!!! this is just one of the things that ticks me off!!!! I would and could go on…but why bother!!!! I would like my appaloosa foal back and you can have your Black Horse!!!! It’s still in my gift box!!!!
Oh…and it sucks that it takes 10 minutes to claim something that’s put out there!!! A game that should take less than a hour to play takes me all night….Today it took me 2 and a half hours to claim less then 10 items….Geez…Come’on FV…wake up!!! We love and hate you all at the same time…but hate usually overrides love eventually!!!
Lori Keith!!!
Have Great Day!!!
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:52 pm
I enjoy farming using mu ipad. Opening it using iphone is frustrating. It will crash 3 times before you can get in. I only wish the FV app is as upto date with the graphics and other stuff that need be. My theme is on a beach and when I open it on the app it’s still pasture green, my wine cellar is basic, and my beehive just one unit!! So yes, it need not be on facebook but how will you get the free samples, shared shovels, engine parts, bushels, etc if not on facebook?
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Don’t blame it on Facebook!!! PLease…It’s Zynga!!! Fix the probs!!!
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 10:00 pm
I think that until Zynga develops a more interactive website at farmville.com, Zynga needs Facebook, not the other way around.
Yes, a lot of players just publish sharings and click on sharings (by their neighbors) with nary a comment, not even clicking on the “like” link/button. But for me, that’s monotonous. A good deal of what I enjoy in the game is banter between (online farming) neighbors. At present banter isn’t possible through farmville.com.
The ability to play social games makes Facebook more enjoyable for a sizable number of their participants. However, majority of those who use Facebook do not use the social games like FarmVille. Further, among those who do, a lot (most) use FB for other purposes aside from playing FarmVille and the like. Should Zynga pull out its games from FB, I doubt FB will lose subscribers equivalent to the number of active players of Zynga’s games.
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 10:00 pm
If Zynga dumps Facebook I think Zynga will flop!!!! FAcebook doesn’t need Zynga to survive…but if Zynga leaves FAcebook…they won’t be taking me…and remember this…I BUY FarmVille cash…Nough said I think!!! do what you want…I can always go back to Pogo!!!!
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
GOOD NIGHT!!!
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 10:19 pm
It would be interesting to see Farmville for the Blackberry phone! I know it’s a long shot, seeing as it is a “for-the-workplace” phone, but still, it wouldn’t hurt to try!
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 10:36 pm
What’s up with this pull?
Would you farm outside of FaceBook?
#1 Yes! I use FaceBook for farming.
The question does not match the answer, please send more time on doing these polls & make them have more then 1 answer rephrased.
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 at 1:49 am
i would love to be able to farm outside facebook, as i am farming on a personal account. hate that everything is covered with farmville postings, especially now after the crafting started.
i would like to hide them from regular facebook, but be able to see them if i go to a farmville page or what ever.. i first thought you could do that, but if i click hide farmville postings on fb i cant see them on farmville.com either :/
separating ordinary fb postings and fv posting could be done inside fb too though.
just feels like fv is eating my facebook page..
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 at 6:43 am
would love to use farmville outside of facebook, i only go through fb to go on my farm, dont use fb at all apart from going through it for farming . Oh and one more thing I,ve read many times that you can go on farmville.com WITHOUT going through FB like it says on farmville freaks posting, IS THIS TRUE???
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 at 8:53 am
MSN Games still exists? Whoa.
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 at 9:51 am
I think facebook needs zynga, a lot of ppl just use facebook just to play. I don’t play farmville that much anymore, right now I’m addicted to king.com games.
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Number 1
I only use facebook for playing FarmVille. Nothing else.
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 at 5:59 pm
I think without some type of social platform such as Facebook – playing farmville wouldn’t be the same. The players need the newsfeed to help with their farm (objectives, challenges, gifting etc.) so unless Zynga has an alternate social platform – facebook is as required to play any of their games. They (Zynga) made the games this way and to change that now would change each and every game and make them almost unplayable.
For those complaining about losing their horses they paid $$$ for – I have many, many horses I paid for and BEFORE I try to reproduce, I R E A D what that foal will turn into. There is a basic rule – if you paid $$$ for the adult horse, then the corresponding foal will ONLY make a black horse and not reproduce itself. This is to keep the “fairness” of the players that paid real $$ for their horses and not be able to reproduce adult horses from foals without paying for adult horses.
Also – very simple to do – before you harvest your nursery, look inside and “hover” over each foal – it tells you VERY CLEARLY what it will turn into. Zynga has provided many charts of the stables and nurseries and what produces what. Do a search for it before you start yelling & screaming that anyone owes you anything.
Posted on August 24th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
I like farmville.com. I hate farming on facebook. I hate that everyone on earth–or at the least all the people I am friends with know what I am doing at all hours of the day. It does feel like I am being watched–observed. I think playing the game on farmville.com just feels better. And I hate facebook.
Posted on August 26th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Hi everybody Its funny as I type this I’m just reading the last comment about somebody hating everything including facebook. Whoops I have just started a facebook group called, What’s so great about Farmville. My intention is to start an open discussion to try and understand why people play such games and what their thoughts are on social networks good or bad. I would love to hear from the Freaks you are all welcome .