Pressured to play farmville

@vycess (1588)
Saudi Arabia
February 27, 2010 5:56pm CST
Almost all of my friends and co-workers are addicted to farmville... They are pressuring me to play it and give them gifts... It's funny that they are requesting a specific gift, specially buliding the horse stables, and raising barn...
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16 responses
@jamed28 (1903)
• Philippines
19 May 10
Your co-workers? Well, is it legal on your office to play farmville of even open a social networking sites? I don't think they will allow it, well of course if your office knows about that. If you are looking for an entertainment my friend, just go and watch a movie or listen to music. It won't requires you to do anything. But in farmville and any similar social networking games, you will be PRESSURED to play it once a day. You'll get the eagerness to improve your account there and to do so, you need to play it daily. Well if that's what you want go ahead. Good luck!!!
@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
3 Mar 10
I've only managed to turn one of my friends yet, the rest have done it all by themselves. I don't post everything Farmville wants me to post on my wall, it feels a bit like spamming my friends who don't play Farmville. But I do ask my Farmville friends for special things, at the moment I'm 4 horseshoes short of a stable :-)
• Canada
2 Mar 10
I've been playing Farmville for months now. I've noticed just how bad their customer service is getting. The developers and forum staff lack professionalism needed to run an application like this, yet it's still going. But I'm still playing, don't recall exactly how I got started. I love the mystery boxes, I think they're the best gift out there. I still play, I do a lot of re-arranging of my farm, just to change things up so it's not so boring. I'm more than half way to the top level of the game, unless they add more to it. But I continue to play and enjoy harvesting new crops. There are plenty of new features, but more often than not, they have issues when they're first introduced. That wont stop me from playing though. And I'll continue to play other games there too.
@Ysabel (1201)
• Philippines
2 Mar 10
hi vycess,... nice.. actually you really don't have to... don't force yourself. they should ask farmville gifts from their farmville friends or neighbor, but not from those who are not fanatic of it. believe me, it just nice at the start, you get to enjoy the game, but when you are on the higher level, it gets boring sometimes! LOL. my other friends, real friends most of them are not farmville players and i don't pressure or force them to play farmville too. after all, it's always some one\s choice. happy mylotting to you! :)
@ybong007 (6643)
• Philippines
2 Mar 10
To date i have more than 30 farmville requests and so far i was able to ignore all those. It has been my resolution not to play games in facebook because if my colleagues who are not into gaming can be addicted i'm sure i would be too. But so far,i can say that the pressure is only in the beginning, as your friends get used to you ignoring their requests they'll hardly notice that you don't have an account yourself. Even my boss plays farmville .
• Philippines
1 Mar 10
Personally nobody can pressure you into playing something you don't like. I've been playing farmville also and my friends also requested particular gifts in which i grant them their request but then its really up to us if we will give in to their requests. If you don't like to play then don't. No one can force you and besides its only a game meant for fun and not to pressure anyone.
@kgwat70 (13388)
• United States
28 Feb 10
I was never pressured to play Farmville but I gave it a try and became addicted to it. It is a fun game to play and they keep adding more things to it to make it more fun. Yes, my friends request specific gifts as well and sometimes I request certain gifts from friends. lol It is one of the better games and CNN also mentioned this game on its website recently.
@markmoney (2868)
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
Hi! There's really a lot of people who was got addicted in playing farmville, from young ones to even the old ones, almost of all ages. I also tried it but it didn't interest me much, that's why I immediately stopped playing it. For you to succeed in that game, you must get addicted to it, like it's already eaten most of your time. If I were you, don't get pressured, but still you can give it a try. Have a nice day! Happy myLotting!
@a_ce_e (1422)
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
That's cool. Try it its fun, then add me as a friend hehehe. I like fence as a gift. Farmville is fun, you can chat with friends, see their photo and play with friends too.
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
actually im one of them im also addicted with farmville aside from being here in mylot. its so nice and funny to think that even my previous boss were also able to request gift from you and even play farmville. its one way to take off boredom actually though.
@nocturn98 (956)
• Venezuela
28 Feb 10
I haven't touched my farm in 2 months now. That's how I started playing it too. I first played it because my friends are playing farmville so they urged me to join. I playe it for 3 or 4 months then I just lost interest.
@skbrence (475)
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
Hi there vycess... I used to play Facebook's FarmVille before since it seems so popular and most of my classmates do play it also that why I tried it also... I enjoyed it at first but then, as time passes by, I got bored because what you do on FarmVille today is the same thing that you did yesterday and the same thing that you would do tomorrow, at the next day, and so on... It is just so boring... ^^
• Indonesia
28 Feb 10
yeah i think this games give an interisting way to make each player engagment, and i play regullar to, awesome
@hofferp (4734)
• United States
28 Feb 10
I was being "pressured" to play Farmville, and even more so, Mafia Wars. I declined the links or whatever you do, and it stopped.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
har har har. thats funny. my sibblings and a few of my nephew and nieces are the one invited me at farmville. so when there is something to build or something to do we all helped each other. i build my stable in no time and it was fun. but pressuring friends is not reall cool. if you dont enjoy the game then there is no purpose for you to play it. a game is only fun when you enjoy it. if not then just dont. let them wait har har har
@happy2512 (1266)
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
Yes I use farmville to unwind me from the pressure of work I like playig it because I can create my own landscape in my farm.