FarmVille, the famous farming simulation game among Facebook users, was discontinued after 11 years. First launched in 2009, the online title that relied on Flash Player was closed on December 31, 2020, after Adobe discontinued support for its outdated software. Adobe Flash Player also came to the end of the road on December 31, and FarmVille publisher Zynga said its closure on Facebook was a direct result of that development.
Through a series of tweets, Zynga president and co-founder Mark Pincus also shared the journey of the game’s birth. The company executive says the real innovation behind FarmVille was to make it accessible to adults. busy to provide a platform for investing and expressing oneself. “It was the first full-scale game that leveraged big data, and almost everything in the game has been tested and optimized. FarmVille has become a training ground for a generation of entrepreneurs and product managers, ”he said. FarmVille was inspired by Happy Farm, FarmTown, and other similar farming games that had a large number of daily active users in 2008 and 2009.
Pincus adds that the game after launch on June 19, 2009, was an immediate success, reaching one million daily active users by the end of its first week. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had also asked Zynga to send all of the game’s content to have the platform filtered to reach a wider audience. “FarmVille became the first major game to leverage the News Feed as an extension of the main game,” Pincus said on Twitter.
Tomorrow, Zynga is closing FarmVille on Facebook after 11 years. I wanted to share the story of how we created him and why he played such an important role in the evolution of the game. 1 time
– marque pincus (@markpinc) December 31, 2020
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The publishers of FarmVille stopped in-app purchases on November 17 of last year and started the refund process for other users. The company already offers Farmville 2: Tropic Escape and Farmville 2: Country Escape to Android and iOS users. It will soon launch FarmVille 3 for mobile platforms.
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