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Last night I received literally 100 emails from users about Farm Town, the game which has continued to surge in traffic over the past month. While the application was only down for about three hours, we literally received upwards of 100 comments on a previous post we made about Farm Town traffic exploding. The game is extremely addictive which makes it understandable why so many users would be up in arms over the application going down.
What’s not as clear is how Farm Town continues to experience tremendous growth. Over the past month I’ve continued to received messages from Farm Town users inviting me to join them. While that typically wouldn’t be that strange, it’s a bit weird since all of the messages are practically identical. Each one starts with the subject “Would you be my neighbour in Farm Town?” I haven’t spent the time to figure out how these messages are generated yet but they’ve clearly been effective at driving growth of the application.
I actually spent a week playing Farm Town in order to purchase one of the virtual houses that you can place on your farm but eventually decided that the game probably wasn’t the best use of my time. Farm Town continues to grow as one of the most popular games on the platform and we’d only expect that to continue with such an avid fan base. Now that the application is back up, users can continue to waste time while playing the game.
Are you a avid Farm Town fanatic?
I had a very difficult time with the outage. I spent all 3 hours on the FT forum at farmtown.com. Very disturbing. I mean, the uncertainty was the worst part. Also I had crops to harvest and all day at work I’d been eagerly excited about the Farm House I could finance after my big harvest that night. I stayed up until it came back up at around 1am. I had to be at my desk at work at 8am, so it was a stretch. I didn’t even have time to replant my crops so I’m now an entire day behind. My field could be growing right now, but its just harvested is all. I called all my friends, especially my sister, with the news. It was an interuption of my nightly ritual.
I didn’t even notice Farmtown was down last night. But then, the way I play, I do all my “work” at once and then there’s no need to go back till the next day when my crops are ready for harvest.
I would say I’m a fan with reservations. There are some really annoying quirks about the game which I assume should be easy to fix. The Avatar keeps getting in the way of my hoe/scythe so I can’t plow/harvest without clicking several times in different spots, or going to a different plot all together. I wouldn’t mind getting rid of the avatar completely when on my own farm. She constantly makes me wait for her to walk where I want to work. Also, why does the game force users to plant, hoe or harvest only one single plot at a time? I would love it if I could work an entire set of contiguous plots with the same tool or seed all in one or two clicks.
If anything is going to drive me away from this game, it will be the continual and boring job of planting, hoeing and harvesting one plot at a time.
I gave FarmTown a try a few weeks ago, but I don’t see what all the fuss is about, let alone why it’s so popular. Had it for a couple of days then removed it.
In reply to your comment that “sers can continue to waste time while playing the game” - Farm Town is not a waste of time. Watching Movies and Television is a waste of time. At least with Farm Town, the user is interacting with others. It’s a neat app.
FARM TOWN has been down now since last night. Even the SLASHKEY website is down. Anyone know what’s going on?
I have been having other problems when the game was up: Not being able to be hired, and not being able to plow on other farms.
I’ve missed out on thousands of coins and XP points and my many e-mails to the developers have all gone unanswered.
I can’t get to my FarmTown again
The webpage “l1.slashkey.com” cannot be found
DNS error occurred. Server cannot be found. The link may be broken.
am I doing something wrong? HELP!
Is farm town down for good or what? It hasbeen down for at least 12 hours misschatting with my friends.
it has been down for me too…I’ve oodles of coffee crops dying in the field.
This game is fun…is addictive, but has a lot of bugs.
I still cannot get into Farm Town today.
Don`t think so have the same problem over her!
I want my farm back. The game has been down all day. What’s the problem?
molly duckitt july29th
I still cannot get into farm town as the rest of my family
cant either
molly duckitt july 29th at 945am
been off since 4pm 28th july not good enough
I don’t think farm town is a waste of time. I go to school four days a week, so on Sunday’s I plant pumpkins or pineapples then I don’t come back to it till Thursday night. I really enjoy playing the game and it gets my mind off things that’s been going on during the week. I have meet some interesting people and have made a few friends. I’m not one for having a lot of friends so to interact with people on farm town is great for me. As far as farm town going down it does get aggravating sometimes, but I just figure they are doing updates when it happens. Then when it comes back on there are usually some great things they have added. Just be patient when it goes down because in the end we might get some more fun features.
Playing game is not a waste of time when you play it with your friends, specialy if you can meet new friends. In the end making friends is not a waste of time.
It is down again as of 12:15 AM EDST 9/17/09
my farm town is still only lo0ading 100% why is this
I havent been able to get onto Farm Town in 3 days. Do I get compensated for the crops I have lost and the coins I have not been able to get by working? This is stupid … this should have been resolved days ago. All applications for games in Zynga haven’t been working what is going on?
Farm Town is down this morning, first time i ran into this since I joint in April..Level 34 now.
It’s the best game in its platform, the realism is unique the interaction is awesome, and the things that WE do in Farmtown..can not be done anywhere else!! that’s a fact.
and by the way …
ZYNGA is farm-Ville not farmtown
Slashkey runs Farmtown
Just saying lol