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Farmville is one of the most addictive games that I have played. It is developed and maintained by Zynga .
What is the main motivation for companies to drive users on the site ?
- Profit
- Profit
- Entertainment for users
- Fame
- Show their programming skills (for developers)
How do they make sure that users come back ?
- Have users to compete with
Best place to find users who know users, Social Networking sites like Facebook,MySpace,Orkut etc. - Have a mechanism to make sure the users come back to the site
In Farmville, you have to grow crops which harvest from few hours to few days. And, you want to earn points to move up on the ladder . - Have a good interface and make users learn things
Interface in Flash - Have cute/nice animations/sounds in the interface
The animals look&sound cute (hint:think childish)
What is it for end users?
- Entertainment
- Passing away the unimportant time
- Procrastinate other work by making users see that you are busy planting seeds, harvesting trees and selling horse hair.
- Find out that “down feathers” for a duck are traded.
- Organize your farm. (I feel that the way you organize reflects the way you organize in the real world
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So, what’s late . Get addicted like me and add me on Facebook to play Farmville.
Discalimer: I am not responsible for you getting addicted to Farmville or Facebook or any other related/unrelated site/game present on the world wide web.
