I ran on another interesting article about farmville today. Cultivated Play: Farmville from the blog media common.
My favorite part : “Again: if Farmville is laborious to play and aesthetically boring, why are so many people playing it?”
Read the article if you want the awnser but for me I’ve stopped playing farmville a while ago. Still don’t understand somebody willing to pay 1400$ for this game or even get fired for playing it, but it seem that the social aspect of it is really waht drive this addiction.
So go ahead and read it here : Cultivated Play: Farmville