Comments on: Why I hate Farmville, and where is social gaming taking us?

By: AnonymousArizonan

AnonymousArizonan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:51:37 +0000

1. Read what I said to Sue.
2. Read the things I said to your other comment. So… Apparently it’s that your friend is transitioning. Sorry, but we can change our hobbies and interests whenever we like, and if you don’t have more in common with a friend than something like riding horses… And, they change away from that… Then that “friendship” is over. There is a difference between actually being friends… And, just sharing one or two passtimes. Maybe, just maybe, they were never as into sports as you think.
3. The junk food is the health ruining part, not the lack of… Horse back riding and tennis? Really? Those aren’t even that active of activities. Nor are they fun. One is highly aggressive, so was a sign this person is aggressive… The other, it’s the beast exercising, not you, being a sign they don’t actually like exercise. And, both of these are rich activities. Maybe they don’t want to pretend to be rich anymore, or if they are rich, maybe they don’t want to flaunt it like that. (Horses aren’t just rich society… It’s actually expensive to have such a hobby, as well as highly demanding.)
4. What makes you think the game caused that “personality” change? Anger is not a personality trait, it is an emotion, a perfectly healthy emotion. We get angry when people do something we don’t like. If you are making people angry, you are doing something wrong. Stop assuming it’s everyone else with the problem and face the music. If you percieve someone being sad or mad as them “getting a brain transplant,” you do not love them and are mad that they are real people with real problems and lives, which do not evolve around you. They are human beings, not fashion accessories. Deal with it. Respect their feelings. All-in-all… You sound like you’re raking in some nasty karma, and being one such who pretends to be the nice person all the while… So, times all the bad karma by three, because pretending to be the nice one when not is both a lie, and hurting whoever is innocent but you claim is at fault. frankly, I’m pretty sure you’re either literally a psychopath, or you are not but are opperating like one and need to learn more about how to be a good friend. If the latter…

Rule #1.
“It takes two to tango.”
“The world does not evolve around you.”
“There are two sides of the coin.”
“A relationship is not one-sided.”
“Everything is not about you!”

Rule #2.
“It takes two to tango.”
“There are two sides of the coin.”
The world does not work in such a way that it is always you who is right and good, and always the other person who is wrong and bad.
“You poop! And, it smells terrible!”
–Between the activities you cited and this attitude… I can’t help but notice you’re some rich, spoiled brat who never learned how the real world works. And, you relish in it. I would advise trying more hobbies than cliche rich ones and trying to meet people who will have something important in common, instead of assuming other rich people want to be friends with you just because you’re both rich, which is an absurd expectation.

If you’re not rich… My guess is you’re a gold digger looking for sugar daddy friends to support your delussions of grandeur. If so, it would definitely tick you off for them to change interests to things not specifically rich, because then they’re not introducing you to high society or helping you seem high society yourself. There is no way you don’t know that horseback riding and tennis are “richie” things.

By: AnonymousArizonan

AnonymousArizonan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:18:14 +0000

It is not lack of exercise that makes people ill, it’s poor diet. Lack of exercise could at most cause the fatigue you mentioned, but not the rest. Do not buy into what people selling gym memberships and exercise equipment are telling you. Most of it is lies to sell their product. For example, we lose weight solely by consuming less calories than we burn, not by exercising. The only way to lose weight is to slightly go hungry till you meet your goal, while they tell you to keep your diet the same and just start working out… While it’s true you will burn more calories and MIGHT (not will, just might) lose the weight (it will actually just increase your weight if you aren’t burning more calories than you consume, and muscle weighs more than fat), once you’ve lost it you’ll go back to the activity level you prefer… With the same diet that made you want to lose weight… Causing a yo-yo affect, which is unhealthy. People needing to improve their health need to be looking at diet, not exercise. It’s the diet that made you sick. Humans did not evolve to intentionally work out, that’s total nonsense. We are evolved to live (and to aquire the muscle we need in doing so – your lifestyle already gives you the muscle you need for it), but we did evolve to require specific diets, and if yours isn’t right, you will get sick. That you don’t know this means you are still sick, and will go on being so until you admit that the problem is YOU, not facebook. Stop blaming inanimate objects like your computer, and take responsibility.
Further, what you’re saying is equally applicable to almost all video games, while this topic is supposed to be gamers who don’t like facebook games, not non-gamers who don’t like games at all. You were not the intended audience, and are insulting the intended audience.

By: AnonymousArizonan

AnonymousArizonan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:02:35 +0000

1. Did you bother to get in contact off facebook to see if they are actually on that account? It sounds like their account may have been stolen.
2. Are you entirely sure this person was your friend and not just an aquaintance or worse who pretended to be your friend?
2b. Thirteen years is a long time… And, quite a few long-time friendships are not real friendships, but people who came together because they had to (f.e. someone to hang with at school or work), and remained in good terms because they were used to it and afraid of venturing out to meet new people. If this is the case, they might be transitioning, preparing to let go of such “friendships” to go out and meet people they actually like.
2c. If this person is really behind that account… I advise learning about psychopathy. They might be one of the millions of people on the planet who can’t actually feel things like love, so makes a lot of social blunders. Perhaps they have decided to just lower their social altogether, to stop blundering. If this is the case, it’s better for you and society that they waste time on Farmville than they waste time pretending to have feelings they don’t have.
2d. Maybe it’s not them with psychopathy, maybe it’s other people they know, causing them to want to say “F it” to the lot of you and retreat. (Trust me, I had this problem. Because I come from an abusive family, my “friends” I made in jr. high and high school were psychopaths and treated me like dung. In our senior year, I started to gradually, painfully break away, a process that took over five years. And, it is done in awkward ways, because you’re the one with feelings for the other people… So, you want them there and might let them be on your friends list… But, you really need them gone, so you might ignore them or be very distant with them, because you know they’re only hurting you.)
3. It’s possible your friend is addicted and needs help…
Frankly, that you abandoned this person, apparently without trying to figure out what was wrong or resolve it… My guess is 2b or 2d. We do not easily leave people we love, and friends are people we love. My guess is you were never a good friend and just have small talk niceties like “how’s your family?” mastered… Which is very easy to master, because you don’t actually have to listen to the answer, or could even use it to gather information for harmful or nuetral uses. That you try to talk to them like that does not come close to proving you care. Frankly, I was weary of you from the point you said you try to talk to them on their wall without consent. That to me says you’re a little self-obsessed and want all eyes on you.

By: AnonymousArizonan

AnonymousArizonan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:25:50 +0000

MMOs are being lumped in with things like Farmville just because MMOs are actually social (while the app. games are not)? No frykyn wonder they are replacing good MMOs with crappy ones that kill the actual social part of the game!
For an example, look to the killing of SWG, one of the greated MMOs ever made, and representing what is supposed to be the now MMO generation, to up sells of TOR, which is even worse than WoW. TOR is dumbed down to the gradeschool level, cuts out the social aspects of the game… They even give you artificial friends to help you so you don’t have to make real friends. That crap now makes sense. It’s because they aren’t just mimicking WoW, they’re also mimicking the facebook app. games, which do not deliver any actual socializing, they just tease you with things like pretending your neighbors.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:39:33 +0000

Farmville is so repetitive as to maybe cause ADHD.It’s only a guess but we have to realize how Farmville keeps the game player in a state of stress,since there is a time limit to crop growth.This in turn can cause nervous disorders,impatience eventually and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Farmville can also contribute to mental degeneration as there is absolutely no real useful brain stimulation,such as if we had a good chess game on FB which would be fun and useful for stimulation.

I see no use for this game other than for the promoters/company.

To those who play Farmville I hope you realize how much time of your life you have wasted on cyber cattle and crops.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:47:55 +0000

I’ve lost a friend to Farmville.I’ve known her for 13 years and we used to email in regular mail and communicate.Ever since I’ve been on FB with her as a friend she’s been deleting any messages I write on her wall even after I haven’t written her for awhile there and she continues to play this stupid game.I write to her in regular mail asking nice things like how her family is and she never writes back.It’s made me start to think that she values a waste of time game more than my friendship or any friendship for that matter since I heard from some of her other friends and they are frustrated because she ignores them also.How can anyone waste their life playing a game that offers no intellectual stimulation,heck no prize at the end or a game that never endds period.I never tell her it bothers me because I don’t believe my saying so will help the matter.The game destroys friendships and turns people into vegetables as far as I’m concerned.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:47:42 +0000

I dispise Farmville.Hate isn’t strong enough a word.I have had health problems so I know what a waste of time Farmvile is.People sit for hours to play this game and grow tired and out of shape not meaning fat but just not well.Someone should go on a long walk or read a book.Farmville is a waste of precious life!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:23:38 +0000

I don’t play Farmville but I’ve seen friends health go down the tubes since they started to play.One used to walk and exercise,another rode horses and another played tennis.Now these once healthy friends eat junk food while playing Farmville for hours.I visited a friend since we were supposed to go out riding,she told me she didn’t ride anymore because it gets in the way of Farmville.She was actually angry at me for disturbing her time on the game.

This game can ruin friendships.I’ve seen perfectly normal people turn into these obsessed angry short tempered maniacs.The game has changed their personalities.Each of them has anger much more readily,can’t focus on other matters in their lives and have a sort of depression.

Also people have sent me invites to play,so when I don’t play they become angry.More to life than Farmville!

By: //Sub/Corpus

//Sub/Corpus — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:24:28 +0000

hate. farmville.

By: uisdfu

uisdfu — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:08:01 +0000

I remember back in the day where the phrase, “social gaming” never existed. We called them MMOs. Like World of Warcraft, of counter strike as not only examples, but games that are fun as oppose to whatever games online that is slapped with the “social” sticker.