FarmVille maker Zynga is in discussions with Lady Gaga over a potential promotional deal.
Zynga used Texas HoldEm Poker to introduce players to future hits Mafia Wars and Farmville.
The danger of essentially recreating Farmville, only with more realistically rendered chickens, was clear all along.
It looks like Farmville 2 DAU performance may have already peaked on September 29.
On the Facebook platform, Farmville 2 hit 6.6 M Daily Active Users this week.
Maybe that brilliant Farmville engineer will soon be building our smart energy grid instead.
Zynga was already the leading Facebook platform developer when it launched Farmville in June 2009.
Just last February, FarmVille hit its peak with more than 80 million monthly active users.
This would allow users to play games like Farmville and Poker directly from the Facebook app.
Farmville gets paid by each of these companies whenever anyone takes advantage of their promotions.
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus cited FarmVille 2 as one of the games driving earnings.
If Nintendo has Mario and Facebook has FarmVille, then Microsoft has the Halo series.
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Social games like the insanely popular Farmville are certainly drawing in lots of players.
The next most popular games are Farmville with 37 million and Poker with 35 million.
But in a post-Farmville age, how much change can an online game bring about?
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Farmville is more socially addicting than strategic, which offers its own lessons to be learned.
He says that daily active users fell 18% for Farmville and 25% for Cityville.
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FarmVille allows players to cultivate their Farms by plowing, planting and harvesting crops and trees.
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The problem is that earning enough FarmVille currency to afford heavy farm equipment takes time.
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Yes, there are kids who play Farmville, but the ones who really get into it?
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For instance, in the original version of FarmVille, animals were included mainly as decoration.
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We spent a huge amount engineering to build totally synchronous gaming for FarmVille with different clients.
Its new games such as FarmVille and ChefVille along with mobile titles will be key.
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Millions of people, many of them older women and younger teens, play FarmVille on Facebook every day.
From its launch, FarmVille grew by 1 million daily active users every week for 20 consecutive weeks.
Most importantly, that feeling from the old Farmville, borrowed from the Harvest Moon series, is still intact.
That gives Hasbro the chance to develop games and toys based on Farmville and its sister games.
The original Farmville will still get support, but Farmville 2 is where the real action is now.
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At its peak, FarmVille had more than 80 million monthly active users though this number has declined.
Skaggs helped to create Zynga games CityVille, FarmVille and Treasure Isle, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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