If you ever go to any of the popluar computer game sites, you’ll see that they offer several free full-version games. And what is the difference between the free full version game and the paid full version game? Advertisements. When a company gets enough users/customers/viewers, the make their profit by hosting ads. So, they don’t actually have to charge us one dime!

I’ve been excited about the farm theme decorations that are supposed to be coming out soon, but now that I see how they handled the Valentine’s Day items, I’m not holding out much hope that they’ll listen to the players’ many requests that the coming items be available for coins instead of cash. People literally post messages begging for Zynga to not make new items available for cash only, saying that times are hard for them. So for Zynga to then come out with holiday items where only two items (one of which you get by default anyhow) are available for coins is such a slap in the face, and that’s why people are complaining.

People often say that no one is forcing us to play the game/buy the items/etc. But the game did not begin this way, and if you want to fault someone, fault the company for baiting and switching rather than faulting the players for wanting to feel included in the fun/cool stuff in the game. Zynga advertises and markets the new weekly items in a way that is meant to encourage sales and lure players into getting them before they’re gone, and they have become successful at that. It seems to be their new business tactic.

Jamie, you said that if people don’t like the items, don’t buy them. Really, not liking the items was not the point…but one could say the same to your comments. If you don’t have a problem with Farmville cash, then great, but don’t knock other players who do and regard them like children by calling them “whiners.”

Of course no one it’s obliged to buy those items.

What I’m telling it’s that the game it’s taking the wrong direction. I do prefer to be told at first that it’s a pay per play game rather than watch how step by step it betrays all the players that made this game so big. When I buy a video game, I just pay once for it and I know there will be no ads and that the company will not require to access to my data to play it. Some video games need updates, but most of them are free or if it’s paid you can burn it or get it in a physical format or burn to recover the updates you bought, In FV you can’t save all the things you buy, there is a very limitated storage so people who freely buy with FV$ have no other option than someday sell their FV$ items with no chance to recover them.

Now everything new it’s to be paid with real money (for instances the love week market items). Themshelves will be the ones who will bury the game because everyday more people it’s getting tired of this. I’m one of those people and because of that I decided to stop playing. I find the game no fun anymore, now I see it just like a greedy game. Spanish speaking people say:: “La avaricia rompe el saco” that means something like: “Greed breaks the bag”. They must remember that what made this game so popular it was that it didn’t have any cost to play it.It’s something like if Public TV channels (funded by ads) made people to pay for most of their shows, or just let them watch just the first minutes of them.

Jamie I’m sorry if you think that i whine. I just tell what I see and the reasons why I leave Farmville. I’m not telling you to stop buying FV$, it’s your money and you spend it as you like it just as everybody does.

In addition to the limited quantity of items you can get with coin we must say that the big problem if it’s a a good choice to buy FV cash.

If we make a little calculation, only with valentine exclusive items and a green mystery box, you will expend approximately 128 FV cash = 15.65 €, and the price it’s higher if you want to collect the 6 items revealed in mystery boxes with tough luck and not getting any of them repeated, the total in this case would be 208 FV cash what it means translated to real money almost 25.5 €. This is only in this Valentine event, we must recall there have been Christmas, Halloween, Superbowl, UFO’s a lot of mystery boxes, etc…

Every ten days or two weeks they release a new event so if we want to get all items and making an estimate of 15 € (the cheapest option) it would be 45€ every month. Ok, it’s not much, who wants to spend it it’s free to do it, but I know how hard it’s to earn money (and in a year would be about 500 €) and, at this point of the game the storage of most of farmers it’s full and they will have to delete many things to add these new, and as I said before, I feel like burning money if every week I had to delete exclusive items worth in 15 € (there will be a point when all stored in barns will be only exclusive FV cash items and you will have no other choice to delete some of them if you want the new ones)

I just don’t like the direction the game it’s taking because little by little it’s becoming almost a pay per view game, and an expensive one. They know the problem with storage and they don’t want to give the perfect solution that it’s unlimited storage. They just want us to delete and buy. At first it was just a few exclusive items, but now the few are the ones with cash money (in Valentine just 1).

I understand there is people to be paid at Zynga, but I think they get enough funds with ads, they could get more if some of the items would be sponsored by a trademark (imagine some collectable weekly gifts by some trademark like Pepsi or any other company like that that would give funds to Zynga and give a little more life to the game)

I’m not trying to discorauge people playing the game but today I collected my last crops because I will have some exams soons and I don’t know if I will plant again because I’m a little dissappointed. I remember when I was playing at first how hard was for me to get some items and how motivating it was to achieve them, but now there is no meaning in keep on croping because what am I gonna buy in this event with those coins a hundred love archs?