Rules
I have - had - a system for my trees. Other players have - had - systems for their horses... or other critters, or whatever....
sure... go ahead and lock trees, horses, pathways, pens, whatever.... to a particular farm ... it's your game... if you want to piss off more players and make us leave because now you've decided it would be a good idea to break our collections AND our systems - if that's your goal, well done... you're doing an excellent job.
If, on the other hand, you'd like us to stick around, play, and give you money ... perhaps you could quit with things that really just don't matter?
Limits
You want I should collect daily collections stamps and then you limit each post as to the number I can get from the (very) few friends I have who are still playing?
And while I'm on the topic, why IS it that in your other games the gift box actually works and lets me access whatever gifts people have sent me, but in Farmville, the max is 50 and anything over that seems to disappear into the ether? Does anybody even bother sending/receiving gifts in Farmville any more? I don't ... too tedious to flip through pages of crap I don't want to send to get to the few things I might ... and then the vast majority disappears anyway.
And the safety deposit box and bushel limits? Hello? We've been whining about the bushel thing for eons ... ever since you started throwing new farms at us for no good reason.
You've broken the gift exchange thing ... so we are left trying to craft the things we need ... but we are CONSTANTLY having to dump bushels that we COULD use for crafting things we need if only we didn't need so much fuel to keep trying to grow the bushels we need to craft the things we need to... well, you get the idea, right?
We're not nearly as stupid as you think we are, by the way... we know you changed the settings on the bushels that we get from farming to try to push us toward buying what we need to craft things... what, exactly, ARE you people trying to do with Farmville, kill it entirely?
Now that the farms don't load/play properly with too much (any?) stuff on them, I've been trying to clear out my junk into my safety deposit box .... not enough room there either. Which means that I have to either sell off all my old stuff, or stop buying/growing new stuff. Guess which one most of us are choosing?
I invested time and money into my trees back when Farmville was fun .... not likely to dump all that in favour of new stuff now that it isn't.
Requirements
Stop already!
I know, I know... someone went to the trouble of making the fishing hole... the yarn barn... the dairy .... whatever... but honestly, if we don't like it, we don't like it - and constantly forcing us to do stuff like "craft 12 yarn" in the yarn barn is NOT going to change anyone's mind.
What, you thought that somewhere around #10 or 11, they were going to say "gee, this is fun after all!"?
Not happening.
Ever noticed that you had millions more players BEFORE you started shoving quests down our throats? Billions, even, by some accounts.
Less trees, less horses, less crops, less buildables, less farms - but you had many, many times more players than you do now.
I know, I know ... y'all are convinced that people started leaving in droves because they preferred other games on other platforms... they got bored, right?
Except that that is NOT what happened.
What happened is that they got frustrated, fed up and over whelmed.
Zynga lost sight of the fact that some sorts of players prefer this type of game and some prefer that...
some people like quests and demands and challenges and competition ...
but those of us that played Farmville? That was not why we played.
We liked working together with our friends.... collecting whatever we happened to be into .... mastering what we wanted to master.... and lots and lots of us LOVED decorating our farms the way we wanted them to be .... whether we were good at it or not (I'm not, but I enjoyed it anyway).
There were lots of other games that included quests and challenges and competition... if we'd wanted to be engaged in those, we would have played them.
Farmville appealed to people that liked to do things their own way - but is now being run by a whole lot of people that demand we do them their way. It's sad.
We came to Farmville...and stayed...and paid money ... for a different gaming experience - and Zynga has, over the last couple of years, completely and utterly BLOWN IT.
And yes, we know that we don't have to do the quests - but doing them is the only way to get the blasted ugly icons off our screen - so we often do them even though we'd rather not. The icons all over our screen - and stuff like the fishing hole and summer camp adventure and lost animals and... it is all clutter and every last bit of it annoys people like me no end.
Even if the farms weren't so bogged down with bad programming, unnecessary pop-ups, and other issues, I still wouldn't bother doing any all out decorating the way I used to - between the "new" hideous facebook and the sheer number of idiotic ugly icons your devs scatter all over my screen and around my farms, why bother wasting my time?
I don't know if Farmville can even be fixed any more... it may well be too late...
but I do know that it won't get better if someone up there in Zynga-land doesn't smarten up and start paying attention soon.
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