
I never played Farm Town to that extent but I did play FarmVille through the years as more and more new Farms were opened, each with a different theme. The graphics of FarmVille were far more sophisticated than those of Farm Town, although Farm Town offered some very sophisticated options to players who had stayed fiathful enough to reach high levels. Facebook was fairly new then and FarmVille and Farm Town were two of the primary farming simulation games on the platform. There have been some accusations to the effect that they stole Farm Town's concepts and more, but one way or another, FarmVille became a great success. Once upon a time, Zynga created a game they christened FarmVille. Please, please do offer us a new Expansion at least! leaving me with far too many Items in my Warehouse and a crowded original Seaside Farm that barely can fit one Machine when needed. You have new farming land but there are entirely different crops, entirely different animals and entirely different machines and decorations. The fact of the matter is that the Island, which we thought would give us an opportunity to decorate with Items that no longer fit on our original Farms, does not accommodate ANY original Farm Items. I still do love my original Farm on Seaside, although I wish they had offered a new Farm Expansion for our existing Items. Most of my old Neighbours no longer even attempt to play the game, having encountered some of the same problems.Īh well. With far too many farms to ever visit, and far too many new options and purchase offers bombarding the player, it is almost impossible to log into the game now. The original FarmVille becomes increasingly difficult even to play. If you are a fan of Zynga's FarmVille 2 Country Escape and CastleVille Legends, no doubt you will become a player of Seaside because of the new Island option but I for one am sad that the developers chose to follow a gaming company that does not have the best track record really. The Christmas Tree this year, when fully decorated has an animated train running round its base and is exquisite. The Christmas Quests in the original Family Farm are fun and allow sufficient time for all players to complete. It is a game where developers actively seek and follow player advice, where premium cash is GIVEN as a daily log in reward, where beautiful Decorations can be crafted and then placed on your Farm rather than being on sale for REAL cash as 'Limited Items' as Zynga is wont to do. The original Family Farm, played on laptop or desktop through Facebook, remains the greatest game of all. What we have now is a situation where there are too many options at play all at once, all due to expire within a specific time frame. This would not be a problem if there were not a primary Farm with its own Daily Order Board, Cooking Stand Missions and other Time-Restricted Quests. New Items can be unlocked for the most part only by making farm expansions or amassing Dev Points, earned by completing Helicopter Orders. It includes all time-restricted Missions and Quests as well as Strategy tips for the game and other useful information.Įvery player must judge for himself or herself but I find the Island exhausting and do not care for the options there. I wrote an initial guide for the Island which can be found at Imagine my horror, therefore when, after Family Farm Seaside announced that they were going to release a second farm, that farm proved to be almost identical in its options to the frantic Zynga mobile device farming simulation games. I still have the games but never play them. Thus, despite the fact that some of my friends and even one of my cousins plays these games, I opted out of them. Too many options all at once, too much to do. Although I played them without too much frustration initially, once I reached Level 20 or so, I became exhausted by the constant demands that gameplay levied on farmers. I have written reviews of mobile Zynga farming games such as FarmVille 2: Country Escape and the CastleVille Legends. Nevertheless, it is a gorgeous game graphically with old-fashioned values in the Quests and moreover, it explores global festival traditions in the time-restricted Quests, making it even more attractive to me. A small break in my log-in record occurred when I took a 30 day cruise and the Queen Mary had the worst internet, making it impossible to complete the Mother's Day Quests that year. I have been playing it faithfully on a daily basis for almost two years. Family Farm Seaside always has been my favourite game for mobile devices.
