I’m not sure how the world takes it, but as for me, it’s a huge addiction now. At the office, lunch time, at home, putting baby to bed, dinner, driving. All the time, all the places, I must be online for the goodness of my farms =).
More than 30 million active users around the world for FarmVille monthly. Can’t really blame me for the addiction, can you?
FarmVille is by far, the best of all online farming applications. Much friendlier, better drop-down options, quick plowing and harvesting method and few other reasons make it my greatest addiction. Unfortunately, there is no option to hire your neighbours or other people online to work on your farm at a cost. It could’ve been perfect if that option is available. Or is it I’m the only one who can’t find a way to do it?
FarmVille view of my current farm. Nice isn’t it?
As for FarmTown, it’s layout kind of a bit ‘mature’ compared to FarmVille. You will need to select from the drop down menu everytime you click to harvest your crops, whether to harvest and store or harvest and sell. This slows you down a lot more than FarmVille, but what is good is you can spend a small amount of coins to hire people to harvest for you. Even though there is coins consumption, the crops harvested by others for you somehow have higher value in the market, which means you actually do an investment on hiring people. Spend some to gain more is better than spend nothing and gain less.
An aerial view of my raspberry farm in FarmTown. Oh crap, I forgot to harvest!
There are few other farming applications such like Barn Buddy, (lil) Farm Life, Sunshine Ranch etc. But none of them are as much fun as FarmVille and FarmTown.
Facebook is killing me softly with its applications!
p/s: Luckily, I have my own cubicle in my new office, not like an open desk in my previous office before. =)