My wife recently got Facebook and saw all of her friends sending her invites to Mafia Wars and Farmville and Blood Wars and a ton of other games. She signed up and asked me to show her what it was. I happily explained everything and she said, “So you just hit this button over and over.” “Yeah, basically. Sometimes you hit that button too.” After my 7 year old and her made fun of me and I realized that I didn’t understand why I liked these games. I play them and I guess I enjoy it, but I don’t know why. There’s no skill. No story. There is a sense of accomplishment to completing some things and I guess that is enough because I still log in and hit that button. I’ve become George Jetson.
Farmville is my other secret shame. It’s on my iPhone and religiously I plant and hoe and plant and hoe and plant and hoe. So while I have to tell you that Farmville is one of my favorite iPhone games. I can’t tell you why. It’s free until you get suckered into buying all the additional content. I already purchased a medium sized farm for $1. And the ‘drag to plow’ for $1. And the ‘drag to seed’ for $1. And the ‘drag to plant’ for $1. And right now I am trying my best not to buy the large farm for another $1. This ‘free’ iPhone game is going to be my most expensive iPhone purchase at the end. And I love it, I just don’t know why.
That’s my farm in the photo!
Team Bob just went down in stock.
oh and Mafia Wars is studly.
Social network games are a cancer with no cure because they make so much money.
I am so let down right now…..
How could Team Bob possibly lose stock? Team JD doesn’t even play social network games!
Dude…You don’t know the half of my issue with this community gaming. My wife is ADDICTED to Cafe World on Facebook. So much so, that if she is out of town on business meetings, she will call me with the specific intent to inform me of what is on the stoves, when it will be done, and what dishes to begin cooking.
When I come home, my wife will be on the computer for HOURS messing with this silly game. We only have one computer, and she hogs it until late in the evening. By the time I’m able to use it, I’m too dayum tired to look up whatever it was I was interested in. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad, her first comment was, “I’ll bet that would be great for Cafe World!” Out of ALL the potential that product has, Cafe World is the first thing she thought of. Not e-books. Not new apps. Heck, not even a cool way to surf the web. No, her focus was on Cafe World on iPad…
The only up-side, is that I don’t get as much grief about the hours I spend doing my own gaming anymore. I can’t wait till I get my Macbook Pro, or iMac so I can have a computer to myself again.. She can have my old funky laptop to cook up all the Martian Brain Stew she wants. lol
hilarious!
i USED to play all that stuff.i have rehabilitated and am social networking gameing free now. scott needs help come to the AA meeting..we have the call letters WOW