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| | | | | After eleven years, FarmVille is shutting down at the end of 2020. I never tried FarmVille. As I once discussed, I wasn't exactly a fan of what it represented - games successfully hijacking prosocial behavior for profit. Now, though, it seems almost quaint. I mean, on the same day I saw this news, I also saw that EA is promoting FIFA lootboxes in a children's magazine. Keeping in mind all the other controversies of the past decade, it's hard not to feel bizarrely wistful about the gaming culture problems of yesteryear. But here's what really does bother me about FarmVille's shutdown: the reason for it and the impact on games preservation. Per the announcement, this is happening because "Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player for all web browsers, and Facebook will stop supporting Flash games on the platform completely after December 31st, 2020." Whatever your feelings about FarmVille as a game, it's undeniably a significant part of gaming history. It peaked in 2010 at 83.76 million monthly active users (about seven times the peak World of Warcraft reached in the same year of 12 million subscribers). It would be difficult to overstate its legacy on the design of social and mobile games over the next decade (not to mention directly inspiring Ian Bogost's infamous Cow Clicker). There are many, many reasons to be nostalgic for Flash and sad for its passing. Few of them had as much impact as FarmVille. | |
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| | | | | It's the start of the week, so why not start it off right with some great tunes? Enjoy your latest Bio Break Mix Tape, a random collection of awesome songs that I've discovered lately and want to pass on to you to enjoy too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPPEPsjxGT4&pp=ygUnS2luZyBLb2JyYSAtIElyb24gRWFnbGUgKE5ldmVyIFNheSBEaWUp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=002ei4fbiCk&pp=ygUfSW5kZXBlbmRlbmNlIERheSBtb3JzZSBjb2RlIG9zdA%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG7P0_DiJpE&pp=ygUMc2FsdCBibHVzdGVy https://ww... | |
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| | | Disney's slate of films set to be released over the next eight years includes everything from its subsidiary divisions and Fox. It also gives us an update on Star Wars films, and what's next for Avatar. | ||
