Farmville

FarmVille is a farming simulation for social networks, developed by Zynga in 2009. It is similar to Happy Farm, Farm Town and video games such as the Story of Seasons series. The game includes various aspects of farm management such as plowing land, planting, growing and harvesting crops, harvesting trees and raising livestock. FarmVille is available as an Adobe Flash application through the social networking website Facebook and Microsoft's MSN Games, and was also available for a short time in 2010 as an application ("app") for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The game is free to play, but to progress quickly in the game, players are encouraged to spend Farm Cash (in FarmVille) or Farm Bucks (in FarmVille 2), which can be purchased with real currency, or "get help from their friends." After its launch on Facebook in 2009, FarmVille became the most popular game on the site and held this position for over two years. From 2011, the popularity of the game decreased significantly. In May 2012, the game was only in seventh place among the most popular Facebook games. By July 12, 2014, it had dropped to seventy-third place among the most popular Facebook games by daily active users.