Outkastprince Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 My name is Jaime, and I'm a Facebook gamer. -gasps- I'm currently a player of the newly created game, Cityville. I know..all Zynga games are the same, but they waste time especially when you need to waste time. I was young, experimenting...going through a rough time! She told me 18! Wtf...we may have gotten a bit out of topic there, the point is I love Facebook games. Who else enjoys Facebook gaming? It's okay..you're safe here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Outkastprince Posted December 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 XD I see you took my love of Facebook gaming well. I assume the pitchfork represents how much you love farming, the pillow is some sort of sexual object that has you hinting at something? and that first one? Not sure, I guess I should be running right about now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akuam4n Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 He is going to feather, and tar you, and then impale you with a pitchfork for liking FB gaming? Idgi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotChops Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Hi, I'm Austin and I'm FB Game-curious. I haven't actually played any of them, but being a big Sim City fan I can't help but be interested in Cityville. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-K Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 XD I see you took my love of Facebook gaming well. I assume the pitchfork represents how much you love farming, the pillow is some sort of sexual object that has you hinting at something? and that first one? Not sure, I guess I should be running right about now. You read me like a book, don't you.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outkastprince Posted December 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 I never played Sim City, but Cityville is pretty basic in it's approach. You build your population by creating businesses, which need to be supplied every 10-15 minutes. Create houses to store your population, you'll need to farm for those supplies and also need a fair amount of Cityville gamers to help you out with many quests. Dammit! it's Farmville replaced by buildings! But I like it, very addictive and you got the Christmas quests going on at the moment that just started if you feel like joining in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotChops Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 I never played Sim City, but Cityville is pretty basic in it's approach. You build your population by creating businesses, which need to be supplied every 10-15 minutes. Create houses to store your population, you'll need to farm for those supplies and also need a fair amount of Cityville gamers to help you out with many quests. Dammit! it's Farmville replaced by buildings! But I like it, very addictive and you got the Christmas quests going on at the moment that just started if you feel like joining in. That actually sounds pretty different from Sim City, which isn't contingent upon the aid of other people at all. LOL, after hearing your description of Cityville I'm no longer interested in it. Plus I hate addictive games that are addictive for the wrong reasons, and it sounds like Cityville (like most free-to-play games) is digital dope. Just as Master P said: The first hit is for free, but next time you better bring a twenty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 All zynga games require other people. It's how they advertise and spread. As for me I gave farmville a look a while back to check what the fuss was about and learn more of how these games work and manage to gain so many players. The games are crap. But the ramifications to other forms of gaming is fascinating. Also played the recent evil genius game to do a write up for pxod. I'm a fan of the original as you guys may know. I found it extremely shitty and decided not to cover it. I was dissapointed. Civnet has my eye but im unsure how that'll turn out or when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 I've been 'playing' the Square Enix Final Fantasy: Knights of the Crystal game since launch some months back. And by this, I mean logging in every day or so to click a button repeatedly a ton of times, communicate with scary strangers and annoy my real friends because the game makes you spam crap in order to get an edge. Oh, and you get raped in PVP if you don't have at least a few hundred 'friends' playing the app as well. Literally. Well, not the raping part - but the amount of people you need in the game for PVP. Which means you need a stupid amount of strangers on Facebook. I added twenty and felt dirty for it, even if it was through Fahey's Facebook page. Also - this is scary. Since this is a 'social' game, you can of course pay for crap in the game to advance your progress. From the fine print on the page in the game where you can purchase credits to spend: You can keep up to 1000 Square Enix Social Coins.(You have 9 SC) You can purchase up to 100,000 Square Enix Social Coins within a 30 day period. You can buy credits in various packages - from 25 credits for $5 to the 'best deal' of 560 credits for $100 USD. I suck at math so I might be doing this wrong, so someone correct me if so - but either way, the numbers are horrifying. If you are buying at the maximum package, that means: 100/560 = .18 or so per credit, times max of 100,000 credits per month = a possible maximum of around $18,000 spent on these 'credits' per month. What the fuck. Why even have a limit if you're going to make it something insane like that. If you did occasionally pay for Facebook gaming, and thus had your Credit Card information stored on your Facebook account, and had this game or another Square Enix social game - and your Facebook account got hacked? That has a potential be very, very bad. Anyway, I don't know WHY you would ever spend even a dollar, let alone the minimum of five on this shit, or more. 25 credits ($5) gets you NOTHING in this game - it doesn't even buy you a pack of TEN of the consumables you need for the special 'pay items only' quests - which if you did buy, you would burn through in less than a minute of clicking a button to see your quest results, and wouldn't even finish the whole quest (since you need to repeat each quest more than ten times to finish it at rank one). There are also other ridiculous ways of burning those credits - like recharging your health, something which would happen over a period of a day, and is pointless, since it just opens you up to being attacked by people with 300+ 'friends' who then steal all your in-game money again. Which just cost you about $3 actual dollars. I mean really, the logic behind the pay system of this game is absolutely appalling. And even more revolting, is the fact that it works. I'm sure there are people that spend money on this 'game' - when there really is no game at all. And it is addicting. I can't wait to delete this shit and all the random strangers I added in the beginning to increase my 'guild' size. I don't know why I haven't, really. I finally beat the last boss, but they keep adding new stuff. More buttons to click. Mmm... buttons... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 I never had any interest in facebook games ( or even facebook for that matter, I had disabled my account a while back) but I found myself "forced" to play the Assassin's Creed game Project Legacy when I realized it unlocked a bunch of stuff in AC: BroHood. I guess it was kinda "fun" there for a while, but now that I'm basically done with it, I barely touch it anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c hoertjes Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 Facebook games are horrible. I played Farmville last year before it got super ridiculous popular, and it got boring after about 10 minutes, haven't touched it yet. I hate it so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshi Posted December 26, 2010 Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 My friend is a game designer for Zynga and designed Cityville. He kinda has me play now and then to see my opinion on whether a housewife would enjoy his creation or not. I suppose you can thank me for expanding Zynga games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudkip3DS Posted December 26, 2010 Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 I already spent 2 months last year on Mafia Wars before getting bored of it and quitting while I was ahead. But now that they've finally made a SimCity clone (a basic one, but a SimCity clone, no less), I might find myself playing CityVille soon, and falling into the Zynga trap again. Of course, Toshi, unless your friend codes disasters into CityVille, it ain't never gonna hold a candle against SimCity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshi Posted December 26, 2010 Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 I mentioned it to him but who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouchart Posted December 26, 2010 Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 I don't care for Facebook, much less Facebook games. There are enough quality games out there, many of them freely available, for me to bother with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 Zuma Blitz on Facebook is actually pretty fun. It's Zuma's Revenge, but with leveling, a new level every week, stuff you can spend your money on (if you're stupid/addicted) and weekly leaderboards to compete with your friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Facebook gaming fascinates me. And it stuff like this that fuels that: http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/291549705119-cityville From nothing to 70million in less than a month. That's figures traditional publishers would be drooling over. 15million daily users. WoW has 12million monthly subscribers. WoW does rake in more cash mind. ($1billion a year on WoW to Zyngas $600million) But even if WoW adopted a F2P micro-transaction funded model I doubt they'd ever see those numbers. This is a company that didn't exist 3 years ago, and is now rubbing shoulders with the likes of EA, Activision, Take-Two, Ubi etc. The ROI on these games must be massive too. No way these cost the $28million or so AAA titles cost, yet they can rake in just as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouchart Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Facebook gaming fascinates me. And it stuff like this that fuels that: http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/291549705119-cityville From nothing to 70million in less than a month. That's figures traditional publishers would be drooling over. 15million daily users. WoW has 12million monthly subscribers. WoW does rake in more cash mind. ($1billion a year on WoW to Zyngas $600million) But even if WoW adopted a F2P micro-transaction funded model I doubt they'd ever see those numbers. This is a company that didn't exist 3 years ago, and is now rubbing shoulders with the likes of EA, Activision, Take-Two, Ubi etc. The ROI on these games must be massive too. No way these cost the $28million or so AAA titles cost, yet they can rake in just as much. It's exactly this type of growth that leads me to question the accuracy of Zynga's financial statements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 As in too high or too low? Bear in mind most F2P business models work off the 20:80 model, 20% paying for the 80% who don't. That knocks off at least 55million, leaving 15million or so as payees. Which is more on par with WoW. WoW costs $12 a month. Which I'd imagine there's probably a good average of $10 between the paying folks of Zynga games. Most might only spend a couple bucks, some might be the "whales". Taking into account the playerbase for Zyngas games probably have a 95% crossover (My sister plays several of the 'Ville' games) and $600million seems pretty spot on for income. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Frickin numbers. I remember EA, etc, looking at Facebook gaming about a year ago or so, and saying, "This is the future." This was a frightening moment. Though, really, it makes sense. As social gaming, in MMOs, and the casual market becomes more prominent, Facebook, already an addiction for a ridiculous number of people, becomes the ideal market. Particularly when you have a number of different currencies to convert through, turning real cash into less-scary-to-spend 'tokens.' It's amazing how adept humans have become at finding new, excellent ways to squeeze money out of other humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouchart Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 I don't know. I can't see a bunch of casual players and housewives paying for nothing but cosmetic, digital content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindo Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 Only game I've played on Facebook is Robot Unicorn Attack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Oh dear... http://www.amazon.com/FarmVille-Dummies-Angela-Morales/dp/1118016963 Think Geek's Facebook page made a facepalm post about this. Agreed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoStarr Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 I have a bad habit of checking out the occasional game when they're absurd (most recently the Playboy game, which had a pretty funny representation of Lady Gaga), but I rarely remember them after the first day. Although, I was following this one for a while before I stopped hearing any news about it. Maybe I should see if it was ever released... Yes, that's a Facebook game. Inb4 Crecente calls it a viable gaming platform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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