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FarmVille Friends Forever

Could you imagine if one of them saved your life by donating you one of their kidneys? No words.

“One of the great things about playing FarmVille is the people you meet. Internet friends are fun, right? If you like playing social games such as FarmVille, you gotta get social and connect with others. This connecting may mean reaching out to strangers, especially when none of your real life Facebook friends are playing. It’s the basics of FarmVille Farmer Problems 101. We all make the choice to add people we don’t know or get left in the dirt and watch our neighbors with more neighbors soar past us. I’ve met some wonderful people from all over the world and all walks of life through playing FarmVille. Although some have turned out to be creepers, it is those who I can now call real friends that mean the most. Relationships that I now hold dear, created over the common interest of virtual farming.

Stranger Kindness

When you start playing a social game, you start meeting people and connecting with strangers, but it’s highly unlikely that saving someone’s life crosses your mind. I read a story this week about Lisa Miller who started playing that other farming game, FarmTown (Why couldn’t it be FarmVille?!) and became friends with a woman whose daughter Tiffany needed a kidney transplant. Lisa then befriended Tiffany and also began her three-year search to help find her a donor, but she had no idea it would end with her very own husband. Turns out, Lisa’s husband, Chris, was a perfect match for Tiffany and more than willing to donate one of his kidneys to her. Tiffany’s surgery is scheduled for January. These are the words that make Hallmark movies. Seriously. This story beautifully illustrates the power of kindness, friendship, and the remarkable ability of connecting people through social games.

I haven’t donated a kidney to anyone lately and nor has any of my FarmVille neighbors asked for one – but I think I still have amazing neighbors.

Having good neighbors makes the game that much more enjoyable and lately it’s become difficult to play without the help of your most reliable farming friends. Sure, you can still plow plots and plant crops at your leisure, but if you are looking to complete your plethora of ongoing construction projects or finish up a quest without using Farm Cash, then you’ll have to rely on the help of your virtual neighbors willing to lend a helping hand.”

 

For the rest of the story, continue reading my column at AOL’s Games.com blog here.

What stories do you have to share about your FarmVille neighbors/friends that you met playing FarmVille? Have you made friends through playing FarmVille?

FarmVille Freak FarmGoddess’ Prize Pigs

FarmVille released the Prize Pig feature last week and now that we’ve all had a chance to experience this new feature for ourselves we are ready to talk about our complaints and how we could improve it.

I used my weekly column on AOL’s Games.com to weigh in on the Prize Pig problems by addressing a few of the main complaints we’ve been hearing from a lot of FarmVille Freaks and then offered up some of my suggestions for an easy solution to make this feature more enjoyable to those farmers trying their luck in Prize Pig raising and more enticing for players unwilling to try it out.

Here’s an excerpt below, for the rest of the story head on over to the Games.com blog here.

“Perhaps you’ve gotten bored with breeding Dragons and Unicorns and want to try your luck in something more traditionally agricultural on your FarmVille farm. How about rearing piglets with high hopes of raising the talk of the town Prize Pig? Well, you’re in luck because FarmVille recently introduced a new Prize Pig feature that is now widely available to all players.

The Real Weigh-in
First off, the Prize Pig feature has potential to be great, but there are some pesky flaws that are haltering all the fun. So far, the new feature has been negatively received by the majority of players who are finding it more of a hindrance than good times and here’s why.

Too Much Chow

Partner Problems

Annoying Notice”

Continue reading here.

More importantly, I want to hear what you have to say! What do you think, FarmVille Freaks? Are you enjoying raising Prize Pigs? What complaints and praises do you have? How would you improve this feature? 

Yes, it exists! FarmVille For Dummies

FarmVille Freak  has been around since 2009 and most of you know FarmVille Freak founder, FarmGoddess. She is not only the founder of this website, but also the busiest of bloggers and a favorite moderator.Last year she was approached to help write a book and she took on a project that any FarmVille player would have been proud to do. And if you think it doesn’t get any better, you should know that the book was about FarmVille!

Over the last few months, she worked extremely hard on compiling this book with her co-author Kyle Orland. The book is part of well-known series of “For Dummies” books by Wiley.

Her book, FarmVille For Dummies is now available. Yes, it really does exist! On behalf of the entire FarmVille Freak community, we would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to her. We would like to take a moment to appreciate the hard work that she put into the book and also for keeping our dear website, FarmVille Freak on top of things while she was writing.

You can download a PDF of the first chapter for free, courtesy of Wiley Publishing, by clicking the link below.

Link: FarmVille For Dummies – Chapter 1

If you are interested in purchasing the book, it is available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble bookstores.

Once again, we would like to congratulate FarmGoddess on the success of her book being published!

FarmGoddess, we are very proud of you!

Will you be buying this book for yourself or for another FarmVille Freak friend of yours?