Today Zynga, the leading gaming company on Facebook, blew past the 100 million monthly active users level through their network of games. Much of the support has come from FarmVille which is not only the company’s largest game, but also the largest application on Facebook by an extremely large margin. FarmVille should also become the largest application ever on the Facebook application within the next day or two, surpassing the “How Well Do You Know Me?” application’s previous record of 35,554,755 monthly active users.
Based on daily active users, the application is already the largest ever by a large number. With over 12 million daily active users, the company has almost doubled the previous record set by the competing farming game on Facebook: Farm Town. One thing is clear: farming is rapidly becoming big business on Facebook. There are now over 72 million farmers on Facebook across the top farming applications. Just about every game developer is getting into the farming business.
The second largest Facebook developer, Playfish, has launched Country Story to cash in on the Facebook farming phenomenon. In just two weeks, their application has quadrupled in size from 1.4 million monthly active users to well over 4 million. There are now 9 farming applications among the top 109 Facebook applications as tracked by our Facebook application statistics tracker. That’s over 72 million farmers on Facebook based on monthly active users.
Just two weeks ago I suggested that the company could soon see 100 million users and it appears that the projection was right. The only question now is how large can FarmVille get? The game continues to grow by leaps and bounds resulting in 25 percent overall growth in Zynga’s monthly traffic just in the past two weeks. If you had any question how large social gaming could get, look no further than the current Facebook farming phenomenon.
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FarmVille is really an amazing game and people really consider it and play more effectively. Zynga really gonna rock with Farm Ville.
Comment by facebooklicious — September 2, 2009 @ 12:35 am
There we go! It was always expected, with the top gaming apps under their belt Zynga was sure to surpass this milestone. Personally I feel that the Farmville dominance will continue for a longer period than expected.
Comment by facebook guru — September 2, 2009 @ 12:44 am
What I find more interesting is despite FarmVille's dominance there are half a dozen other farm apps that do exceptionally well – without having to be number one. I think ultimately that's a huge motivator in the dev community.
Comment by Firecue — September 2, 2009 @ 6:10 am
Based on a sampling of 4 farmville addict in my famuly (but not me!) I would say most farmvillers are getting a bit titred of the daily tamagochi routine and suspect rapid decline for the game in the next 4-6 months (but Zynga will have many new games out, no problem, once we are past the farming "meme" there will be another savor of the month).
Comment by Sylvain Carle — September 2, 2009 @ 6:34 am
I don't quite understand why Zynga's Farmville is the one to stand out from many other farm games out there, which have much better graphics and game play.
Comment by Winnie H — September 5, 2009 @ 12:01 am
please let me on farm town.
Comment by maia — September 5, 2009 @ 5:08 am
I'm enjoying Farmville so much, it got me thinking how about a doll house "game"?? Would definitely bring back many fond memories of hours playing with my dollhouse!!
Comment by Linda — September 6, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
Yeah. I love farmville
Comment by Tunardy — September 7, 2009 @ 8:18 pm
As a Farmville "addict" myself I'd just like to say thank-you for paying attention to what we really want out there. When we was getting tired of clicking so much on our crops we got tractors, when we wanted to earn more cash you gave us cash when we go up on levels etc.. The ultimate Farmville toolbar is awsome. Thanks and kep up the good work by listening to us.
Comment by candi — September 15, 2009 @ 6:03 am
I much prefer farmTOWN I would Zynga a dine after what they are doing to yoVILLE.
Comment by Lisa D Cheney — September 19, 2009 @ 11:27 am
I agree with Lisa. I have always preferred FarmTOWN over FarmVILLE. And I'm rather annoyed about the whole situation with Yoville right now as well.
Comment by Jenni — September 19, 2009 @ 11:33 am
Zynga is getting greedy. They aren't listening to their users at all. All they are listening to is the little hungry voice in their pocketbooks. Shame on you, Zynga. You are about to lose a LOT of 'customers'.
Comment by Fey — September 19, 2009 @ 1:44 pm
Zynga is ruining FarmVille, just like they are ruining YoVille.
Comment by Facebook User — September 19, 2009 @ 1:57 pm
I really love farmville…but the only thing that frustrates me was that the more I leveled-up the more it is becoming slower.
Comment by nhess — October 4, 2009 @ 2:48 pm
Farmville is realy gyyd game. Come all playing farm ville. =)
Comment by nubba — November 1, 2009 @ 2:14 pm
i really like farmville but i have to say i am getting tired of having to refresh my page everytime i do anything on the game.. they really ned to get this fixed
Comment by wanda — November 21, 2009 @ 6:14 am
I was realy fun to play.But something happend all I could do is heare the cows and pigs.What went wrong.Can you please help me get it going again.I tryed the flash player.I am lost please help.
Comment by Joseph thibault — December 21, 2009 @ 2:57 pm
I am hooked on Farmville but cannot get neighbors so I can move up and get a house. Any suggestions. And I love the tool bar idea.
Comment by jackie priest westbr — January 26, 2010 @ 3:03 pm
Why I cannot open my Farmville.?
Comment by Jessel — February 15, 2010 @ 7:20 pm
I love playing the farmville but I cant open it….!!!!!
Is there something wrong.?
Comment by Jessel — February 15, 2010 @ 7:22 pm
For over a week now I cannot get anything on Farmville. I keep getting an error that says Page you requested not found , has moved or is incorrect, do you know why this happened?
Comment by Cj McAdams — March 2, 2010 @ 10:51 am
i love the games that zynga has but i find a fault with farmville and frontierville they slow up at times now i cant see nothing because the pages get white and freezes.
Comment by ruthmitchellbrown — November 2, 2010 @ 10:21 pm