Facebook used to be the place were you wrote on walls poked your friends commented on you day and shared photos among friends, now people seem to be using Facebook to play games one game in particular which seems to be the obsession at the moment is Farmville.
Farmville is a virtual farm where you begin by designing the way your farmer looks then start planting seeds. Each seed has a different price and harvest time which is in sync to real time. You can expand your farm, purchase buildings, animals, vehicles and decorations You can help out at your friends farms to gain extra cash, send them free gifts and also do various things to work towards gaining ribbons.
I began playing the game after my friends told me how good it was, at the start i found it a bit slow and not very exciting but it then became very addictive, and i found myself checking my farm every time i logged into Facebook to guarantee that my plants would be harvested on time and wouldn't be spoiled. Now after (i hate to say it) several months of playing the game i am beginning to find it a bit boring but still continue to play it, why is this? what makes a game so addictive that even when you you would probably find more excitement from watching paint dry you still continue to play it?
The truth is i'm not too sure but what i do know is that it definitely has the stickiness factor.
Cafe world similar to Farmville is virtually the exact same game but you run a cafe instead of the farm and guess what after a week of playing im already addicted. ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHH!
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